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We need a federated game launcher platform!
Some guy on Mastodon already made some framework for achievements, so it's not undoable. Issue would be a copy protection, which depending on your standpoint, either is completely malicious, a necessary evil, or a mandatory thing for anything other than a free game made as an experiment. Having an open source copy protection method would immediately guarantee a workaround, the best we could achieve is to disable some official servers, achievements, etc.
Link to the project? I'd like to follow the repo if possible!
It's called #Gamerzilla, and the dev's at is @dulsi
@kryllic @ZILtoid1991 There are several repos for #Gamerzilla as it has the server implementation, the C library to add it to games and several other libraries for various languages.
https://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/