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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (2013)

Duration: 10:42

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This video shows off the history of the Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead project, which can be found at http://en.cataclysmdda.com/

It starts in late 2010, when the great and powerful https://github.com/Whales began work on the then-plainly named Cataclysm, and takes us to the moment when it became the Dark Days Ahead project (at around 3:00 in the video) and many, many more people started contributing.

Cool highlights (thanks to contributors):
- at 3:01 TheDarklingWolf appears (originator of the Dark Days Ahead mod for Cataclysm)
- at 3:20 Kevin Granade appears (current maintainer of C:DDA)
- at 7:21 the C++ source is all moved into a subdirectory of the root (impressive-looking)

By the time of this posting, the project has had 271 contributors who have made 21,225 commits totalling more than 180,000 lines of code. To all of you: we're super-grateful for your time and effort spent in making CDDA the best it can be! And to everyone who's played the game: we really hope you've enjoyed it, and keep telling us when you find bugs!

The visualization was made with Gource, whose official homepage is at https://code.google.com/p/gource/. In the video, each bubble is a file in the Cataclysm: DDA source code repository, and each branch is a different folder where files are stored. Whenever someone flies by and zaps a file, it means they did something with that file.

The command that created this visualization was: xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1280x720x24" gource -1280x720 -r 30 --auto-skip-seconds 1 --seconds-per-day 1 -o - | avconv -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -s 1280x720 -i - -vcodec libx264 -s 1280x720 -preset fast -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 10 -threads 0 -bf 0 gource.mp4