Unturned Developer Releases Full Source Code to Community
By open-sourcing a long-running free-to-play title with an active mod scene, the developer is effectively handing creative control of the game's future to its community while keeping the official version alive.
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Smartly Dressed Games released the source code and Unity project files for the free-to-play zombie survival game Unturned on GitHub. The developer says the move enables anything from new features to total conversions, and an FAQ outlines conditions for non-commercial mods. The official Steam version will continue to receive updates.
Smartly Dressed Games released the full source code and Unity project files for Unturned on GitHub on July 7. The open-world zombie survival game, which launched on Steam in 2017 and holds a Very Positive rating from roughly 560,000 user reviews, already had a thriving custom-map and mod culture through Steam Workshop. Now the developer is giving the community the same tools the studio uses. The repository was originally public for bug reports and preview builds; the code and project files were added this week.
The developer posted a tutorial showing how to add heat-seeking missiles to the game and said the possibilities range from new features to complete overhauls. An accompanying FAQ addresses hosting servers, publishing derivative works, and cheat concerns, with the key condition that mods built from the source code must be distributed free of charge and non-commercially. The official Steam version will keep being maintained and updated, and the public repository will stay synchronized with the latest official releases.
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