Just getting in to Farthest Frontier which is superficially like Banished but there's more and they're creating content. Source: about 1 year ago

What about Banished? Absolutely fantastic game and developed by just one person. Source: about 1 year ago

Has anyone tried SCONS? Came across someone using it in a place where I worked earlier. Python-based make-like tool. https://scons.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

The most comprehensive make alternative in python I've seen is Scons (https://scons.org/) It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into. Blurb from the website: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Https://scons.org/ It has cache facility to speed up re-builds. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

SCons never got popular enough to escape the niches it grew up in. Source: 11 months ago

I literally do almost this exact thing with the game im working on. Situation is: im the programmer, working with an artist who cant code (and im not going to make them edit json on an ipad lmao) so I have a google drive spreadsheet where they put metadata for the items they make. I have a script that uses rclone to copy this down as a csv, along with the image assets. Then I wrote a python extension for scons... Source: about 1 year ago