Would it be a really bad idea to make your game open source? Give it a forum where anyone can commission features, and ask for donations from players/ modders to fund managing and debugging the project, keeping it a coherent whole.

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  • Zero-K

    Open source RTS game running on the Spring engine

  • Thrive

    The main repository for the development of the evolution game Thrive.

    • Hmm, like Thrive and Shapez.io?

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  • shapez.io

    shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!

    • Hmm, like Thrive and Shapez.io?

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