Here´s why:

It´s been a long 4 years in the life of DEMISE - the work and effort, blood and sweat that has gone into the development of the game still lingers with me; however as you know, I have now set my focus on Artifact´s next massive project, HORIZONS. Unfortunately, due to the fact that our investors are only interested in our completion of HORIZONS, we have no funds or manpower to support or patch DEMISE. While from a business point of view, I supported and understood the decision, on a personal level I feel obligated to the DEMISE community to do whatever I can to continue supporting the players who have made DEMISE the great game it became.

It is for this reason that we have decided to release DEMISE as open source to the public. It is our hopes that this decision will keep the game alive, and allow the players to evolve the game into what they always wanted it to be.

Exactly when we´re going to release the source is still in the air; but it will be soon - we have to put together some legalities relating to the release, as well as the source itself.

I will keep everyone up to date as to the status of the preparation of the source release, and inform the DEMISE community of the projected release date shortly.