About Homegames
Homegames is a free and open source platform that lets you play, make and share games without an account.
The original inspiration for Homegames was Jackbox. "Easily joinable social games from your phone that you play with people in your house" was the goal at the start.
After iterating on that idea over time, I ended up with user accounts, asset uploads, a searchable public catalog people could publish their own games to, and a lot more. It became unmanageable at a certain point, and ultimately I am not interested in hosting a service and dealing with all of the responsibility and costs of doing that.
If the ultimate idea is to provide a useful tool to people for free, I want to reduce the dependence on me and the services I provide to keep this idea going. That is what led to the mostly peer-to-peer structure we have today, with a free self-hosted server bundle available to people if they want.
I don't want games to depend on Homegames infrastructure or services. Providing downloadable game bundles playable offline in your browser and access to the source code makes games last longer.
Homegames-authored code and media are MIT licensed. Keep the licenses and credits included with each game and dependency when sharing or changing them; third-party material retains its own terms.
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