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Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution! (crackpipe.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks,

our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We're thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we're delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.

With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing "alternatively obtained" games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.

Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe's self-hosted approach. Explore your server's game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.

Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe's high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.

Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.

Link: https://crackpipe.de

You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe

UPDATE: here

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to talk with my friends about using something called crackpipe. Might be cool software, but I can't take it seriously. This would be like if Plex called themselves bootlegpimp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Terrible name. Call it something like Gamepipe instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A product's name should reflect what it does, not what you were smoking when you came up with the idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I for one will not be using this to introduce my kids to gore simulators where you can see chunks of peoples' heads blown off at your own hands, because it's called crack pipe, and that is where I draw the line

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I just think it's a dumb name is all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love the chutzpah of it.

Creative commons isn't a licence designed for code though, consider using the AGPL instead.