[kleiba]

And this when "Handmade Hero" was abandoned over two years ago, after not really getting anywhere over the course of 9 years.

[Johanx64]

For what it's worth it spawned a lot of quality software as a side effect. And served as an educational platform for a lot of programmers that felt that there's something wrong with modern day software and python/javascript low quality garbage they did at their day-to-day job, but couldn't quite put their finger on it.

Turns out you can both fail, and yet succeed in 10 different ways at the same time.

[_aavaa_]

What do you mean by "not really getting anywhere"? The point was to show and document the process, not to ship a commercial game.

And the context is that it was 2hrs a week for 9 years, not 9 years of full-time dev.

[kleiba]

The process was absolutely to ship a commercial game, which Casey re-iterated at the beginning of every single episode. Also, people could spend $15 to "pre-order" the game.

[pjmlp]

Haven't you kept up with the social media status, and the conferences that came out of it?

[kragen]

Huh, I didn't realize he'd abandoned Handmade Hero! I somehow assumed he eventually shipped it.