On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 12:53:08 UTC, Kapendev wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8xusY3GTM

No one has credibility to be a be the lead of a big project, no 2 projects seem worth combining, so no one will take the unnesery social cost of being subservient to join what is likely just the same failed project odds as going solo. Even if someone is idealistic, and wants to combine raylib projects in superfesial way, it also apperently doesnt work.

What happens if you skip several steps to a project where the lead knows to hire pretty indiscriminately, and has 5 people on board already?

Most of the projects I'm familiar with are game engines, which naturally aren't designed to be combined. Working on smaller utility libraries could address this issue, and there are already some, like dtiled.

Now, when it comes to raylib projects, what other possibilities are there?

• Bindings: raylib-d
• Wrapper: raylib_misc
• Extension: fluid

Bindings that support WebAssembly are also an option I guess:

• Your Project
• Part of My Project

On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 16:05:49 UTC, Kapendev wrote:

I dont believe most of d's issues can be fixed with technical solutions; political issues can and do exist. Ive heard this debate called a "theory of history"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdv2CqM1o0 ; and Im not of silicone valley stock.

Games are hard, and I'm extremely unlikely to finish (a real) one alone, yet I find myself unconvincing to ask for help or willing to join someone elses as the 2nd person. Even if my code is the best`est api, where I use compiler bugs others barely understand to write in a wasm debugger into my game api, making large scale wasm games presumably possible, Im quite certain >70% of the game devs floating in d (and presumably in the same situation Im in) will simply do not care due to style differences.

D collects people willing and to some degree able to go alone, theres not many people thinking about politics, much less, good at politics; and herding cats is a hard political problem.

So... crystallization sites, where is the most probable group of 5 people to seed credible attempts at large scale game dev in d?

One reason why people may not want to work on other projects is because these projects have no documentation or tutorials, which makes them really difficult to use. It's easier to just make your own things. Things like a tour and examples with comments would be nice to see.

One game that is going to release on Steam is this: https://youtu.be/0_jNPFfqTrQ?si=b36nDyIE6IKvHPPA

I'm also trying to release a game on Steam, although I don't think it will happen anytime soon, because I'm learning and I've never released anything commercial before.

you, me(tho Im highly cynical and drop projects all the time) and at least dozen others, even the half of those I respect I think 99.9% of solo projects will die, and Im naturally terrified for my future(and suggest you should be to) and wish to have a Byzantine general solution for a team project with better odds.