How do, folks,
Yesterday evening, Shoes came by the IRC and pointed us to a video made by OpenXCom team showing off their project’s development history, built out of the data in their revision control history and using a tool called Gource to show it off.
Inspired by that, and having a spare machine I could leave running overnight, and with Kevin Granade’s help in finding some good values for the tunables, I’ve created a video that does basically the same thing for CDDA!
Here’s the video description, for the lazy:
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 3:20 in the video) and many, many more people started contributing.
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
