Crackpipe | Crackpipe
crackpipe.de
A decentralized gaming platform for alternatively obtained games

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

UPDATE: here

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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

  • greater_potater@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m not going to talk with my friends about using something called crackpipe. Might be cool software, but I can’t take it seriously. This would be like if Plex called themselves bootlegpimp.

    • shadow@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • alfagun74@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      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

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong since I’m not familiar with all this, but would I be able to “upload and share” a game that I bought from GoG since GoG games are DRM free?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yes. Just keep in mind that will likely break licensing for virtually any game you’ve legally purchased.

  • mint@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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…)

  • shinnoodles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

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