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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

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (62 children)

Cool idea, problematic name. Have you considered any others? There’s a ton of racist/problematic connotations in the US with this name that probably wouldn’t be well understood in DE/EU…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

The name is fitting because it's for cracked games, which are piped in a single programme. I don't think it needs changing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can rationalize it all you want, at the end of the day when you say crackpipe there’s only one thing that comes to mind.

I’m just imaging a conversation at work talking about a new game, and someone saying they haven’t picked it up yet and a colleague overhearing their co-worker say “just hit the crackpipe”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly even calling it CrackedPipe would be better than straight up crackpipe, lmao

I'm envisioning the possible reverse scenario where you get someone wanting some crack and won't take "Uhhh, I was just talking about a video game thing" as an answer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I had the same thought, but honestly it's software for pirated games. Pretty tame in the context of that landscape...

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

i know right? It's so awkward for me to talk about blasting folks heads off with my assault weapons in the latest gore simulator. If the word crack even enters the conversation you better believe it'll cause some stares

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