It's coding, not "content", based on "hacking" the code (which is possible in Java kind languages only).

Ah, fair enough, and my mistake, then. As I said, my information was second-hand.

Lackofcreativonium

Back to the topic, I was thinking of making these games for a while too. Concluded I can't afford it (if I were to make it I would need to stop doing it at one point and call it done, at which point I would get a lot of bad reputation (check how the Town's bad karma is following the guy who made it no matter what other game he makes, it even haunts him as publisher), but if you are doing it as a hobby and have no other games, why not, it should be fine.

Note, I encountered a similar situation when I was making a roguelike, no matter what I did the players seen it as incomplete and they simply perceive end of development as "an abandoned project". Some genres simply are perceived by players like that, and we can't do anything about it.

Random thoughts I have on the genre (as a developer):

- making it "ant colony" view is easier (performance wise) than 3D.

- there is lack of "flying island", "flying castle" style of games (CastleStory doesn't count)

- Minecraft style feels "lonely" (you as FP character), but if you control sevela lemming-minded-idiot creatures (DwarfFortress, Gnomoria) it does not feel lonely, I found out the key is "you" are not present in the game (so there is no such contrast in intellectual level), you are kind or abstract overseer that is helping these cute, yet idiotic creatures survive.

To be honest, I would very like to make a game like that :) Maybe when I'm retired and I don't care about money and budget and reputation anymore I will start one :)