Worms 1 source code

[Diablo vt]

Team17 could you possibly release the source code for Worms 1? I'm sure programmers would love to make mods of their copies. I guess it could be released as it's quite an old game.
Another thing - Was the game coded in C/C++? Thanks.

[thomasp]

It depends who holds the rights to it - it is more than likely that Team17 don't hold the entire rights to the code and that Andy Davidson holds some of the rights and thus Team17 can't release the code without his permission.

[bonz]

I also believe that the old, now defunct publisher Ocean was somehow involved.

[Diablo vt]

I also believe that the old, now defunct publisher Ocean was somehow involved.

I hadn't thought of that. :o

[thomasp]

I also believe that the old, now defunct publisher Ocean was somehow involved.
I believe they were - they certainly published the Mac port of Worms 1, so I imagine they did some of the other versions too.

[bonz]

I believe they were - they certainly published the Mac port of Worms 1, so I imagine they did some of the other versions too.
Ocean published W1, WR and WDC.
Funnily not WU though, which was published by Microprose.

I believe Microprose got the rights of Ocean after the latter went out of business. Microprose was bought up by Hasbro, AFAIR.

[SupSuper]

And Hasbro by Atari, so...

[bonz]

And Hasbro by Atari, so...
Actually, Hasbro bought up Atari.
After Infogrames had bought up Hasbro, it took over the name Atari and used it since 2003.