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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Artisanal!

I remember when artisanal Doritos came out. That felt like the end of that.

We of the hand crafted software guild (HCSG) vow to not use too much tools and automation.

Sure, you may use a compiler to magically transform your source code into real executable software or use some Adobe product to transform your ugly concept drawing into something amazing, but we draw the vague limit at outsourcing too much to automation at AI generated or curated content.

One can only respect the trade if one works extremely hard, drew blood and shedded tears and sweat from one's very overworked body. AI is just creepy and has no soul. Did the great artists, developers and programmers copy paste a lot of each others work and call it a day? We think not!

Here we do not re-invent the wheel or copy someone else's wheel. You will be obligated to design, develop, program and come up with your own wheel, even if you have a copy of the best wheel possible for your program.

We make hand-crafted traditional software in small batches so the high quality of software is always preserved. Your parents and great-parents will be proud and shed nostalgic tears when using your software. Everything should be as it was and everything should be traditionally awesome.

/s

I'll be more inclined to believe the hype when we start measuring accuracy and predictability like SLOs and holding the companies accountable for bad results.

> We make hand-crafted traditional software in small batches so the high quality of software is always preserved

I see the `\s` but this part at least is literally what we need to do!

You do realize you can copy digital stuff as much as you want? :)

Is that fact meant to be hidden or put aside here? I am not sure I see that.

Oh no not that way. Small batches so the high quality of software is quite unneccesary because software can be copied infinite times. Sorry, bad joke.