[Hamcha]

I beg to differ, the real beauty is how anyone can fork them to follow their own vision e.g. Open TTD has a fork with bundled community patches dating decades that never landed in the main game, or Space Station 13, a game that plays completely different depending on which codebase you play (they don't even have matching licenses anymore, and all of them copyleft).

There's even a nice talk on SS13 specifically since the project is massive and sees changed ever hour (in a single version, let alone all versions or even the multiple remakes currently in development): https://youtu.be/z5sjwqUten0

[aasasd]

For some reason Youtube's offerings for ‘Space Station 13’ look like a supply of memery straight from elementary school, at least going by what I see in the list. I managed to find one vid by ‘MandaloreGaming’, whom I watched one time in the past and pinned as vaguely decent, but even that didn't evade the attention-deficit mode of editing.

[Arrath]

Stories of utter ridiculous shenanigans in SS13 from Something Awful's thread on the game are my go-to.

EG https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=28...

[Kinrany]

I would never guess to search for a GDC talk on Space Station 13. Thank you for this!

[kubafu]

Care to share a link to the OpenTTD fork you mentioned?

[Hamcha]

Sure: https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches

The Readme includes the list of applied patches.

[kubafu]

Thank you!

[mschuster91]

Probably https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches

[catach]

That is also an interesting attribute, and for similar sociological reasons.