But how many open source GAMES do you know, that have had a noticeable impact? Well, I can't speak for the "impact" part, but titles like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, OpenTTD, and Oolite come to mind. Dwarf Fortress isn't open source, but Nethack is open source. My personal thoughts:...

[...] Also tremendous amount of time was wasted on thinking / building towards making it being highly modable? Why would one who never delivered a game waste time on such a thing. Focus focus on the right thing. Just funny reading the last comments how we all agree that we had some smaller version ...

That was always my thought as well. If you can just move on and find something better, what's stopping you from ripping everything up, draining it dry of easily-mined resources, and moving on? I mean yeah, there's the exploration aspect, but to be honest, exploration doesn't mean much if the places ...

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Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:25 pm

We have a Star Citizen group and a discord.

We have had an EVE Online group, and an unofficial Warframe clan. There's a couple other places we have a presence, too.

OgTWmKFuMZ8 To summarize, it's a wild mishmash of Warhammer 40K, Dwarf Fortress, and a little bit of REKT. The game throws you into a wholly hostile alien cavern system and tasks you with retrieving valuable artifacts and minerals - while trying not to get killed by the nasty denizens of the caves ...

Starbuck, I understand your perspective. However, I think most people here stopped being here for the game a long time ago. At some point, people began to appreciate the journey. For many, the journey became more to them than the actual game would have, if it came out. All of this came about purely ...

The con builds bring up a really interesting point, IMO; I wonder whether it was the external deadline that did the trick, or whether it was that Josh allowed himself to produce less-than-perfect code in order to get to that specific goal. Personally, I'm convinced that it was the external deadline...

this attitude of some of the dynamics of the original game being "wrong" is a concern for me -- not because "Ooh, I liked that, don't change it," but because once you open that door, it's hard to close it to the 1001 other Great Ideas... and then we're back to why the hiatus was necessary. That's v...

Quiet characters don't work in REKT. I've let it go in the past, but starting semi-recently (somewhere around the start of this year) I began applying the rule of "no quiet/loner characters". It might work in DnD, which is stat/roll-centric, but it doesn't work well at all in REKT, which is story/ch...

Yay, I did want to play Shadow Warrior 2. #1 was awesome.

I actually don't disagree with that sentiment, as long as he releases it right away "as is", without trying to clean or polish it. Unfortunately, I don't think he's doing that at all. I think he wants to "make it presentable" first, which I don't feel is good for his mental health.

I don't think that's what he meant. Rather, I think he meant that an MMO is well beyond the reach of a one-man-project. I would completely agree.

Thanks for finding this, Davdav! I'll keep an eye on it. May end up getting it, too, to see how it plays.

Hyper's Big Post I took some time to think on all of this, and I'm going to respond now - as a regular forum member, not as an ex-community-manager. My CM hat is off right now. If I had the financial means, I would not contribute $20, I would contribute $20,000,000. And I strongly encourage anyone ...

Thanks, Moss! I'll get it added.

I saw you in IRC, briefly. You didn't stick around long, but I wanted to say hi.