Dev tools · September 30, 2024
LANCommander v1.0.0 – Self-host your digital game library
Last week I launched LANCommander v1.0.0 after about two years of development. LANCommander is an open source digital game distribution platform. In essence, it's a ways to self-host your own game library ala Steam, GOG, Epic, etc. It originally started as a project to automate the distribution of games at a LAN party I co-host. We have about 24 peak players each session and there came a point where trying to get games to work ate more time than we actually spent playing games. The natural conclustion was to write my own launcher and server to distribute files across the network. v1.0.0…
LANCommander v1.0.0 – Self-host your digital game library launched on September 30, 2024 with 6 votes, #2,184 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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Documentation has been revamped now lives over at: https://docs.lancommander.app/ Detect install scripts for redistributables have been slightly reworked and thus has introduced a breaking change where you will need to update these scripts. Where an exit code was previously supplied, now the variable $Return must be set. See the documentation for morefrom github.com
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Last week I launched LANCommander v1.0.0 after about two years of development. LANCommander is an open source digital game distribution platform. In essence, it's a ways to self-host your own game library ala Steam, GOG, Epic, etc. It originally started as a project to automate the distribution of games at a LAN…
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