In addition to Rimworld I also play a game called Stardrive 2. It shares the distinction of having a 1 man dev team with rimworld. Alas Stardrive's dev doesnt seem to be as organized and stable as Tynan. He is having a really hard time of late, especially with a celebrated reviewwe giving the game a bad review. I was wondering if Tynan could share some of his organizational skills with Zero over at Stardrive2. The game has a lot of flavor and potential but needs management, direction. Thanks!
I believe that Daniel and Tynan communicate from time to time on Twitter and other places, I know that they're following each other for the least part. :)
I've been thinking about trying out stardrive2 for a while now.... sad to hear this development.
Well, I don't mean to rip on a persons work but StarDrive [2] seemed to me like a game which shot under the bar. That is, better games came out long before with one man dev teams. Specifically, the Space Empires franchise comes to mind and is my "benchmark" for space 4X games. So far, nothing has come even close to it's level. StarDrive 2 is slmost on par with Space Empires V and I would rate them as equals except SD:2 doesn't offer anything which SE:V doesn't and it's a decade too late. SE:V came out in 2006, it's now 2015 with SD:2 adding nothing new to the genre, in fact (imo) SD:2 offers less than SE:V in many respects.
I don't write reviews but I wouldn't rate StarDrive very high at all. Just because you say your game is great, it doesn't make it true. Fancy graphics do not make a game and even then SD:2's graphics aren't any better than SE:V. Everything I've seen in SD:2 has already been done in other games.
Earlier titles (not all are one-man dev) which are better imo:
Space Empires franchise (PC, latest title released 9 years ago)
Escape Velocity franchise (Mac, Nova Mac/PC released 13 years ago)
StarCon (AKA Star Control) franchise (First released 25 years ago)
http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Main_Page
Check that game out. I must have spent an easy 10k hours on this over the past 20 years.
Spent 10 years playing against the AI as I didn't know where to get a legit copy when I was in school (no online payment options at the time).. and have been playing it on http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/ ever since.
You can DL it free from http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Downloads and use one of the public keys to play against AIs.. or get a key for about $2 or so to play against humans.