My opinion is that people are not contributing because it's not straightforward to implement stuff.

The fundamental problem is that each open source game has it's own engine.
WHY ??
There are TONS of open source engines out there, why reinvent the wheel each time?

I've tried to contribute to 3 open source games: Unknown horizons, VCMI and 0Ad. I have abandoned each one of them because of the difficulty to learn each underlying engine.
Engine optimisation problems actually stop 0AD from becoming well-known and actually playable RTS.

I think something has to change in the open source landscape for projects to be successful.
We're spreading too thin..

I challage you to name 3 open source games that use the same engine (excluding forks).

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