Hi,
I wanted to share with this group my current thinking regarding the game. Basically, I would like to lock down as much as I can the current Rags game, but then support the creation of a new open source community led version of the game where people can share their changes and new content in a way that allows others to pick and choose the options that work best for them. I will release to the open source game all the content I include in the Rags game as that content gets completed.
If you have the energy and interest to devote to modding the game, it would be great if you could assist with the open source version, assuming this gets off the ground. In order to help get it off the ground, I'd invite you to participate in the discussion about the project, which currently is housed at Hypnopics, but may be migrated to another site if it gets going.
I just signed up here, so can't share the links to the Hypnopics discussion, but perhaps grev can, or you can quickly google it.
At this stage, the first decision is what game engine / programming language to build the open source content on. Ideally, it would be more accessible (and with a likely longer shelf life) than the Rags engine.