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> That said, I've always wondered if Dwarf Fortress would be a more smooth experience if it had more developers Maybe, but only if it was under the benevolent
by asciimov 5y ago
> That said, I've always wondered if Dwarf Fortress would be a more smooth experience if it had more developers
Maybe, but only if it was under the benevolent dictator model.
- bombcar 5y agoThere exists at least one Dwarf Fortress done in Tarn’s model - it seems there exist zero done via any other method. He perfected a Patreon-style support system before Patreon was really a thing, and he keeps plugging away at it, keeping people interested. (Dirty secret - he’s found ways to let people access parts of the code he doesn’t care about such as the sound or SDL)
- skeaker 5y agoYour comment is true in a literal sense, but there are other games with very similar mind-boggling complexity that exist and thrive thanks to being open source. SS13 and CDDA jump to mind.
- bombcar 5y agoI think those take a different kind of person as a leader - the “Tarn + bro” person would need to be better at delegating and management of others vs implementation of his design himself. Often if you have an idea but aren’t doing the low level implementation it’s harder to understand why something should change vs doing it yourself - in the latter case you just change the implementation and the design at the same time.