Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution!

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: crackpipe.de

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

UPDATE: here

Geometric7792,

dude why would you name it that

Bizarroland,
Bizarroland avatar

My guess is that it is a pipe for cracked games and someone decided to have a giggle rather than even beginning to aim for any kind of maturity

jprjr,

It was designed to work with "alternatively obtained" games such as DRM-free games. While Crackpipe can be used with cracked games, it does not encourage or condone piracy.

People, come on.

First of all the name, the logo of a pirate, using the terminology "alternatively obtained" - this is clearly for sharing cracked/pirated games. Any plausible deniability is out the window. Especially with using copyrighted game box arts in the screenshots.

If you changed the language to be something like:

It's designed to assist with sharing games with friends by providing a mechanism for downloading and managing game installations. Please review your game's licenses to ensure this is an acceptable use before sharing.

Then you'd be able to say "this is meant for sharing freeware/shareware easily and making it a social experience."

Also change the name and logo, and get those copyrighted box arts out of the screenshots and just use art from open source games SuperTaxKart, OpenRA, etc. (Technically those may be copyrighted, depends on each game, but at least you're not dealing with fucking Sony by showing a Spider-Man game).

jkmooney,
jkmooney avatar

Maybe if he tagged on the line "....for novelty purposes only" ? ;)

Bradamir,

All that hard work just to name it crack pipe - lol.

FfaerieOxide,
FfaerieOxide avatar

Whoooa. Slow down there, Charlie!

apotheotic,
apotheotic avatar

While Crackpipe can be used with cracked games, it does not encourage or condone piracy.

This is so fucking hilarious to me. Your logo is a pirate, and your app name is "crack"pipe (which is dumb for many reasons), and you use 'alternatively sourced' in the language instead of just talking about DRM-free games.

Cool software, but if you don't want to get shut down you certainly should reconsider your approach.

dismalnow,
dismalnow avatar

reconsider your approach.

Start with the fucking name. Yikes.

Xeelee,
Xeelee avatar

Can you hear that clacking sound? That's the sound of an army of lawyers furiously typing cease and desist letters. And that name...

shinnoodles,
@shinnoodles@lemmy.world avatar

This seems cool, but damn I wish there was something like this for Steam games or something. That’s the biggest thing I miss from Sony’s ecosystem, and Steam’s “Family Share” is pretty bad in comparison.

Arotrios,
Arotrios avatar

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

MavTheHack,

Is this like a sonarr/radarr for games?

Hupf,

gamerr

MavTheHack,

Would have been a better name

KairuByte,
@KairuByte@lemmy.world avatar

For god sakes, change the damn name.

mvirts,

How about buttcrack? Jk that would be terrible. CriticalPoint would keep the two letter combo and be a dig at steam en.wikipedia.org/…/Critical_point_(thermodynamics…

KairuByte,
@KairuByte@lemmy.world avatar

CP is the second reason the name is terrible. “Let me connect to your CP server” is going to get so many people onto so many lists, unless they specify CP == CrackPipe.

There are just some names and abbreviations you do not use. And this is both of those.

Ganbat,

Lol, gonna be honest, it would be pretty hard telling my friends about this awesome thing I learned about called Crackpipe.

That said, it’s not really something I could do anyway. My ISP doesn’t let me host servers, and they’re the only ISP in my area without disgustingly draconian data limits.

MisterB,

Could you not use something like Tailscale to access it remotely?

Ganbat,

Damn, a good point. I already use ZeroTier for this kind of stuff, I don’t know why I never thought of that.

MonkCanatella,

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

priapus,

I’d be interested if there’s any plans for a Linux client

alfagun74,

There are no plans for a native linux client right now, but there is an awesome community-driven approach to run it on linxu in our docs here

shadow,

Same here. My current method is a self hosted website on my home network which showcases all available games, followed by a bash script download that will automatically generate the yml file for Lutris to fully install any of my 200+ games.

Whilst this is currently the best way I’ve found for my setup this app seems like the perfect thing to potentially swap to, if Linux was supported.

RobotToaster,

I love the chutzpah of it.

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

Justenith,

I love the idea. I think the UI can use improvement.

mint,

Cool concept but the UI and icon designs are the turn-off for me. After I saw the screenshots and it was immediately no.

And I’m actually fine with the name, and I kinda see how it makes sense since its a pipe to your cracks (assuming pirated games…)

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