So one of my long-standing projects is an online fan-game that's been running for a good four years now, and is at least somewhat well-known among the related community. To give you an idea, Alexa ranks my online game higher than the official website for the franchise my game is based on.One thing I've been wondering is, would it be a good idea to make the game's source code publicly viewable?The reasoning for the idea is that this will allow the more programmer-oriented people in the community discover how the game works internally, and research certain features to determine possible outcomes of events, and share this knowledge with other users. For instance, they would be able to discover the exact chances of various treasures appearing in Chests, rather than just having a statistical analysis.Major reasoning against it is people can copy it, but honestly there are already copycat sites out there and many of them fall flat on their face simply because they try to be my game and either just don't get any attention in the first place, or get called out on being a rip-off by other members of the community.These two points have been like a see-saw in my mind, tipping back and forth between I should totally do it and nowai, src iz myne! (not really like that :p) So I was hoping that I might be able to get some advice here, perhaps someone else has been through this and might have seasoned advice to offer?
Sharing source code of my online game?
source code