Keen software have announced that they are giving free access to their source code for Space Engineers alone with a $100K fund for modders who want to do total conversion of the game more detail on the site http://blog.marekrosa.org/2015/05/space-engineers-full-source-code-access_40.html

 

Space Engineers – full source code access, total modifications and 100,000 USD fund

 

Today we have a very important announcement for our modders and our community. We decided to give you 100% complete access to Space Engineers’ source code. This comes as a continuation of our decision to give more freedom to modders and community.

 

Please do not confuse this with “open source” or “free software”: While we are opening the possibility to read and alter Space Engineers and VRAGE source code, we’re not making Space Engineers or VRAGE free.

 

I have spoken about ideas like this in my previous blog post - http://blog.marekrosa.org/2014/09/programming-is-coming-to-space-engineers_15.html but back then we were assuming we would open only some parts of the game. Later we came to the conclusion that opening the entire code base will be much better for everyone.

 

Modders can now develop the same way Keen Software House developers do (this however does not mean we will stop working on the game).

 

During the last few months we have been removing parts of the obfuscation on the Space Engineers executable and libraries. After that we  uploaded the source code of Space Engineers and VRAGE engine on GitHub as a private repository, let selected modders look at it and provide us with  feedback, and today we’re making the repository public.

 

There are very few game studios that have ever done this, probably none during their early access period. It’s an experiment that someone has to try, and the chances that it will be beneficial for the future of Space Engineers is high and worth taking the risk.

Could be some interesting mod turn up for this although there will be no doubt be some limitations on what can be made.