What's with the honorable mention of Ter13? As far as I can see, he only made one game, and it barely worked on anybody's computer other than his.

http://www.byond.com/games/Ter13/DawnCasterInfestation#

It's a neat concept, but you don't exactly see it being played as anything other than a novelty.

He was a knowledgeable programmer but aside from telling everyone that they were wrong about everything and having a public meltdown he doesn't seem to have done much actual game development to warrant inclusion on this list.

digitalmouse wrote:

IchiroKeisuke wrote:

digitalmouse ranted:

Lists like these are why Facebook and every other 'top ten list' website FAIL.

Monetary success via sheep-like behavior and general stupidity of it's users != actual usefulness. Facebook has continued to show that it cares less for it's users privacy or security year by year. Ergo, it fails. Just like Top ten lists. Except maybe the old David Letterman Top Ten - some of those were actually funny (emphasis on some).

Viva-la-'ello!

Everyone except you pretty much agrees that a 1 billion dollar net profit is a success.

Its still being worked on but he isn't using BYOND

FKI wrote:

IchiroKeisuke says:

I like lists like these, they are fun to me, just like games are (apparently) to you. I dunno why you hate top 10 lists so much but I enjoy them.

Probably because these lists are nothing short of idiotic. "top" anything lists are only useful for one thing: inciting the feelings of others and starting an argument that goes nowhere

You are partially correct in that it does start passionate arguments, this is the part I like.

When people argue with my (or the authors) opinion they often mention someone or something that wasn't included, that was also of high calibre. When they do this I get a nice opportunity to check out new things and enjoy them as well.

- all over an opinionated list.

IchiroKeisuke wrote:

This post is also my personal opinion, so take the list with a grain of salt.

Please also remember that this was my personal opinion

I told you it was an opinionated list to begin with. twice.

yeah these guys may be the best developers but im hands down the best at ranting about everything i dont like about the world and no ones ever going to surpass me

Writing A New One wrote:

SuperAntx and Iain are my favourite developers on BYOND. Decandece and Casual Quest are the only two games I've put in more than five hours into.

i have at least 150 hours in proelium

probably the same in dragon warrior mythology ( UPs game )

i may have put like 7 hours into alchemist.

maybe 70 hours in cow rp/cowed

3 hours into Decadence and 5 in casual quest.

every other game on byond i probably played for 15-30 mins

Just noticed that ShadowDarke wasn't even mentioned...

Never really played anything by him. Probably the most influential non-staffy.

Shadowdarke is brilliant. He and Lummox JR in particular really pushed the engine's limitations in the early days!

In my personal opinion, Leftley is the best game developer we've ever had, but he disappeared a while ago. A lot of really bright folks have passed through our little corner of the Internet though!

I like Grei's list of games, it's like a time capsule of where the community was at a decade ago. Though, it does seem to omit one of his greatest hits.