QL was our first game and although it was a big milestone for us, it was created at a time before we understood version control software. We do not have access to the source code anymore and cannot make any fixes or changes to the game. Because of this, we have decided to disable the ability for anyone to buy copies of the game. Thank you for your time and feel free to reach out to us.

The trailer looks like an awesome vaporwave freeze tag indie game.

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[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So many games are lost in time due to this.

My favourite game off all time, Homeworld, got remastered years ago. Its fantastic follow-up, cataclysm could not be included in the renaster. The reason? Lost source code. No backups, studio got bought, diveded, merged, shut down and nobody thoight it prudent to safeguard that what they bought; the code and ip.

It happens. Often.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

The fact that Blizzard was able to piece together a reconstruction of WoW Classic v1.12 is more of the exception to the rule.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Ugh buyouts are terrible.