After two years of development, W4 Games is proud to announce the first beta release of W4 Cloud, our open-source backend for online and multiplayer games optimized for the Godot Engine.

W4 Cloud has been built around the same concepts as the Godot Engine: simplicity and flexibility.

As part of our commitment to open-source, we have made the initial public release available under the GNU AGPLv3 license.

Note that it seems this will only be free & open source initially, but will probably move to a paid model on release. W4 is a for-profit company, after all.

Edit: Removed some speculation, I misunderstood the “initial public release” part and assumed later releases would not be foss

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    9 months ago

    Note that it seems this will only be free & open source initially, but will probably move to a paid model on release. W4 is a for-profit company, after all.

    Do you have any source for this speculation? There is no reason to close the source later even if it is made by a for-profit company. My guess would be that they are planning to offer it as a SaaS, given that it is AGPL licensed.