Im part of a open source game community (yes, the can even hold hostile and weird people), and we botched that- our tools got better and better - aka more power

Im part of a open source game community (yes, the can even hold hostile and weird people), and we botched that- our tools got better and better - aka more powerful, and our new dev-base dwindled and declined until it is by now consisting only of devs dropping by from other projects. Even the map-editor, which used to just take bitmaps, is now in need of several complicated picture formats and a complex configuration file,and requires some knowledge about comp-science to get going. Others have worked against this trend- there are some neat tools in the making, but the community is not really behind pushing for easy access. You are right, im over-interpreting that there was a microsoft plan for this. But the perfection of minecraft at open source, that holds true. It was the perfect mixture- easy to get into,hard to get out, instant showable result, a lot of inspiring achievements, which you could investigate yourself and find out how they where made. Depending on the scope-infinite time spend digging on your "repo". It would have been a generation, for which openness was as natural as the openness of air and water, if the github of builds would have become real. But correlation is not causality. Lets say in two years time, on some bigger repo, a survey - did you play minecraft before you did start to code. Just to be certain.