Nah, I think that was always our target window, unless I'm misremembering. It might have to do with staging out our tentpoles so they're not all competing with each other in the same release window.
This is a hypothetical question, but one I always wanted to know about. Suppose I wanted to create a game in the same fantasy style as Battle for Wesnoth. Having no arts skills myself, I could write the code for the game engine and borrow (steal?) their artwork and use it myself. IIRC, their s...
I think Discord ate our lunch there. ;) If you just want to hang out and chat gamedev, they have a much better interface and more active and varied communities than what we have here. π