So, that's it then, apparently.

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To name a few Lucas, drakas, rofl, SKB, jpablon. I have no idea about who else could help. They could grab everybody's ideas and create the game we all want.

Lucas is already a dev. Larry is very capable and has been offering his services for years now, but he refuses to work on features that he thinks have no chance of being implemented into the official release, which I guess is understandable.

I like your idea about dev applications though. Maybe we'd see some talent emerge from seemingly nowhere, like with VonDrakula a few years back.