#vcmi — Public Fediverse posts
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🎮 Ah, yes, the techies' eternal quest to reinvent the wheel 🔄 with more bugs 🐛! #VCMI aims to resurrect a 24-year-old game nobody asked to be resurrected, proving once again that #nostalgia is the ultimate programmer's trap. 🚀 #InnovateByCopying
https://vcmi.eu/ #GameDev #TechTrends #ProgrammerLife #RetroGaming #HackerNews #ngated -
This is what the very first osgameclones.com looked like, in 2011-06-01, with a grand total of 7 games, compared to 1224 today.
https://github.com/opengaming/osgameclones/commit/b3a1c78916025c086e3ae146e9ea89c5ecbb9aef
The style and purpose haven't changed, and it's good that there are way more games now, but it's also harder to find things. Maybe better searching and filtering are needed?
Of these original 7 games, 5 are still going strong (#OpenTTD, #CorsixTH, #fheroes2, #VCMI, #OpenXCOM) which is incredible.