s&box is now open source on GitHub.

This repository is synced from our internal repo, with the C++ source code removed, obviously we can't ship that and it's up to Valve to open source if they want. When you run Bootstrap.bat it downloads all the binaries needed to run the engine. I don't think omitting the C++ code makes this any less valuable though.

What this means is you can fork and modify any of our code, contribute to s&box with pull requests, have your own engine version for your standalone game, or even just take code for your own engine.

The process is still being tweaked, the baseline commit might change hash still, if you've already made a pull request and it got closed automatically, rebase and try again.

We've wanted to do this for a long time, I'm happy we managed to get here, the response so far has been great and the contributions are already proving how right this was to do.

If you have any problems or questions feel free to ask

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Amazing, other game engines will be sweating.

I'm so glad that InteropGen and build tools are included, really wanted to learn how that works.

By the way, how do you generate Qt bindings? Is that documented anywhere?

opening my source to this

wow. incredible!!

Huge step forward

You guys are really cool. This is an amazing move that will definitely pay off in the long run. My friends-devs from Unity and UE sometimes got frustrated because they didn't know if you would be able to fix what they considered to be important bugs or add features. This is where Godot wins. Not every game devs make their own features for the engine, but when you feel like - "If FP don't do it, I will" it really frees your mind from negative thoughts. 

I will definitely let all the developers I can reach know that s&box has become open source and that they can start using it. Now all that's left is the license with Valve for exporting games and... Then you can release it. 

While writing about how important a move you have taken, questions immediately spawned into my head:

1. Will it be possible to create custom multiplayer for standalone games?
2. Will it be possible to simply change relay without creating a custom multiplayer?

WTF! Too epic for me to handle today! Epic overload XD

Unity went silent after this one!

This is amazing

now shadowbrain can fix VR

Unity - over.

Now I can rewrite it in Rust.

Awesome decision