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Just astonishing that one person (largely) is doing all the research and development for this game.

• throwawayben 2y ago
  surprisingly there is a very similar precedent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator) something about space fight simulators perhaps
  • orbital-decay 2y ago
    Orbiter itself is very barebones, though. Most of the content is in community addons.
    • Suzuran 2y ago
      And the community addons may as well not exist because nobody bothers to look for them or read the instructions for installing them. (I may be biased though, I was an Orbiter addon project maintainer for many years)
  • T-A 2y ago
    Maybe not surprising at all. The author open-sourced Orbiter in 2021 [1]. It's MIT [2], so anyone can pick up from where he left off and create a commercial version: [1] https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-source.40023/ https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-so... [2] https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter/blob/main/LICENSE
    • Suzuran 2y ago
      DocMart hasn't abandoned it, it's still under active development. Open-sourcing it was to get more people involved because he couldn't do everything solo anymore.
  • Intralexical 2y ago
    X-Plane's mostly made by one guy too, isn't it? The computational modeling of airfoils they do in it always sounded amazing.