I've spoken with Kenney before and he is a straight up luddite. To the point where his recent gamejam disallowed any usage of AI in any capacity. It's actually an amazing time to be an indie developer, you can get so much done nowadays offloading all the boring work to AI.
You dont need full accuracy in gamedev, and if you do, you can just get AI to write a test suite to verify the behaviour you need for your game. Also, you really believe a visual scripter will be able to solve bugs? what if the bug is an engine issue or a layer under scripting?
There's no real point to visual scripting anymore. People who don't know how to code should just use AI.
Yeah, we are thinking of holding a contest at some point with a prize pool. Maybe when we get closer to a steam demo release.
If you are waiting for My Summer Cottage, I urge you to consider what release day will actually mean. Do you really want us to finish the game without a rigorous understanding of what happens next? Should you keep wishlisting it because “it’s coming anyway”?
I am optimistic about coordination. Warning shots like the cottage becoming increasingly playable have made development pauses more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent release, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on finishing the game.
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private Discord server. Merging the final pull request should require extraordinary confidence that humanity is prepared for what comes next.
A common response is “if they truly believe finishing the game is dangerous, why are they still working on it?” Many have not internalized the stakes. Others believe somebody will eventually finish My Summer Cottage anyway, so it has to be us.
The people building My Summer Cottage earnestly believe that finishing it could be catastrophic. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, developers will couch their phrasing in public to sound sensible — but internally I hear the same people discussing “release.”
Do not underestimate the consequences of finishing My Summer Cottage. Once complete, it will contain a functional cottage, driveable vehicles, fishing, drinking, sauna and an entire Finnish summer. There is no reason to believe it stops there.
