Hello there,
I'm currently trying to grasp the connection between NBK and WFTO.
From what I've read here on the forums and researched elsewhere, I understand that:
- NBK started out as open source DK1 clone with plans to improve upon the original
- The initiator and main programmer was someone with the nick "IKSLM"
- Other members of this forum started contributing / got interested in the project
- At some point, some people decided to create a fork of NBK that went by the name WFTO (reference to the subtitle of the once planned DK3)
- The NBK source was moved over to GitHub, the last commit was in late 2013
- Eventually, the WFTO team decided to steer clear of DK/Bullfrog/EA IP and to be more serious about the project, going commercial
Now, what I don't understand is:
- Were any of the NBK contributors involved in the (early) WTFO?
- Are any NBK contributors to be found within the people who went on to found Subterranean Games?
- What is the state* of NBK and how come it has - apparently - been abandoned?
- Who is IKSLM? NBK's GitHub has two main contributors, Max Hayman and Bo Fjord Jensen, neither of which seem to go by that handle.
*) Videos and code look quite advanced; couldn't get it to compile on my machine yet, though.
I assume most of that information can be compiled from different places (mainly here),
but I hope someone with a good overview can summarize it for me, the curious guy that I am.
tl;dr: I'm trying to get the exact evolution of NBK -> WTFO -> WTFO (commercial) straight, as well as the roles of the important names.