Rarely do they release the assets with the open sourcing of the engine. If you want those they tend to want you to pay for the game and then pull the assets out to put in your build.
That ok. Is great that they open sourced their engine, however they don't even mention the assets and that you need to buy their game to have them, which is a bit strange. And they even say here is everything you need for the whole game.
> Is great that they open sourced their engine, however they don't even mention the assets and that you need to buy their game to have them, which is a bit strange.
When it comes to open sourcing game code, it is pretty standard.
AFAIK most open sourcing of 'games' state that they open sourced only the engine and not the complete game. And maybe provide a guide that shows you how to copy the original assets into a game compiled by yourself.
I just think this is misleading and probably just a marketing act for the next release of their game.
Personally I find it great that they released their engine again, the more open source code the better, however they should have just been more careful with their press release. Some reporters that don't look to close to the code might think that Amnesia is now a open source game like 0AD or recently unvanquished, that actually tries to make their assets fully open source compliant.
It's hard to interpret that phrase but it certainly seems to apply to their art assets. You could ship a GPL reimplementation or total conversion mod of their game tomorrow and use the game assets, as long as the user already owns the game. Just like all the very popular Quake and Doom stuff, for starters.
It's implicit in their having "only" open-sourced the code: you can't actually play the game without the assets, and accessing the assets legally requires buying the game. Unless you want to remake all assets by hand I guess.
