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

    • lordcommander@waveform.socialEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      In the US specifically there’s some historical connotations back to the 80’s and how the US government fucked over black communities by flooding them with crack. I’m sure you all didn’t mean anything racist/negative with this, but wanted to flag this to y’all since you were based in the EU and likely wouldn’t have the same connotations with the term :)

      Anyways, best of luck with this! It’s a cool idea.

      • Neato@kbin.social
        12·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Not doing the least bit of research and choosing an edgy name makes this seem extremely amateurish.

        • dsemy@vlemmy.net
          3·
          1 year ago

          “Amateurish”? This is literally a server for hosting pirated games, who gives a fuck.

          Also, if your first thought after reading the word crackpipe is black people, maybe you’re the racist one.

          And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?

          • Chozo@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?

            The same reason you’d probably care if an American said something ignorant about Europeans. I feel like this is like saying “The N word wasn’t used in my country, it doesn’t mean to us what it means to you, so why do you care if I use the word?”

            Obviously that’s taking the example to an extreme, but I think you get the gist.