Developer's Dialogues...

• On why the game is free:
  I can deal with that. Especially since I think we've easily got more ideas than we have time. Better to be a party to something cool than sole creator of nothing.

• Why else the game is free:
  

  > > what's your plan for compensation?
  >
  >Immortality, omniscience, omnipotence, and lots of cute babes.
  >
  >But I'm willing to negotiate.
  

• Somebody once said, "There are no unrealistic goals - only unrealistic time frames."

• On Artistic Disagreement:
  

  > but ultimately, when it comes down to an artistic disagreement
  > where both sides are equally convinced, what we ended up doing before
  > was "i know, let's design the game to accomodate both ideas, so
  > at the end we'll just plug in this module or that module to achieve
  > the right effect. so we don't need to decide now." soon the game
  > model became so abstract that it had no flavor at all, except that
  > it was going to be "really fun". i don't know if we can keep doing
  > this, but at least it permits more (apparent) progress _now_.
  > i think breaking up progress into many little games will alleviate
  > this problem a lot by allowing us to test ideas frequently and
  > find out what is good.
  > a serious problem would be if we start to diverge significantly on
  > what type of game it should be... as long as you're not going to
  > say "you know, i think what the world _really_ needs is a knitting
  > sim" then we're ok.