Limit Theory

[Wildeblood]

I'm wondering why he tried to do it all by himself.

Because he had a personality disorder that made him imagine anyone he allowed to become involved would try to rip him off. That was obvious from early on.

[hiran]

I'm wondering why he tried to do it all by himself.

Because he had a personality disorder that made him imagine anyone he allowed to become involved would try to rip him off. That was obvious from early on.

Probably you do not even need a big personality disorder. I tried once to contribute to some open source project, and the repo owner would not merge my code in unless it was all well formatted. Despite the project's code quality scanner had been disabled.

So I suggested to enable that which would allow me to correct formatting issues without him and deliver code such that we could start talking about the vision, purpose, the chosen implementation etc rather than whitespace.

It lead to nothing and I understood why that guy was the only one coding on that project.

[phkb]

I also think Josh suffered from perfectionism, leading him to write then scrap and rewrite then scrape multiple versions of the codebase over time.

[hiran]

I also think Josh suffered from perfectionism, leading him to write then scrap and rewrite then scrape multiple versions of the codebase over time.

...and as the game grew he had to spend more and more time playing to 'test it all'

[Wildeblood]

I also think Josh suffered from perfectionism, leading him to write then scrap and rewrite then scrape multiple versions of the codebase over time.

Don't confuse indecisiveness for perfectionism.

What he suffered from - apart from the obvious mental issues - was something fairly common: an inability or unwillingness to understand that project management is a skillset in its own right. Just because someone is good at skill X, it does not follow that they will be any good at managing the resources needed to facilitate X, or the application of X to a greater task.