Is Riveal still being developed?
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:21 pm
Hello everyone! I have no idea if this is the proper place to post this - I would have posted this on the MOULa/Cyan forums, but that would probably be against the rules against reverse-engineering of Cyan games.
I'm aware that sadly the original developer of Riveal, Ron Hayter, passed on a few years ago. Does anyone know if development of Riveal has perhaps been taken over by someone else since then? Unfortunately it's difficult to find any useful information on Riveal, a web search mostly finds mirrored downloads of the last released version.
The reason why I'm asking is because I thought if nobody is developing Riveal anymore, it might make sense to decompile the jar and make the source code public - that way others could theoretically continue working on it or reuse the code. I experimented a little and got far enough that I could compile and run the decompiled source code (after some manual fixing). Before I work on this any more or upload the code anywhere, I wanted to be sure that there really is nobody still working on Riveal.
(I'm also a bit unsure if this is even a good idea. After all, it's still copyrighted and someone else's personal work no matter what. Any opinions on that would be welcome too.)
I'm aware that sadly the original developer of Riveal, Ron Hayter, passed on a few years ago. Does anyone know if development of Riveal has perhaps been taken over by someone else since then? Unfortunately it's difficult to find any useful information on Riveal, a web search mostly finds mirrored downloads of the last released version.
The reason why I'm asking is because I thought if nobody is developing Riveal anymore, it might make sense to decompile the jar and make the source code public - that way others could theoretically continue working on it or reuse the code. I experimented a little and got far enough that I could compile and run the decompiled source code (after some manual fixing). Before I work on this any more or upload the code anywhere, I wanted to be sure that there really is nobody still working on Riveal.
(I'm also a bit unsure if this is even a good idea. After all, it's still copyrighted and someone else's personal work no matter what. Any opinions on that would be welcome too.)