Quoted from T3quila:Holy c***, who is this Lonnie guy? New to the Hobby, honest question. Seems like people don't like him. What did he do?
He has a history of coding games with basic, repetitive rule sets (not always). He also has a historical tendency to leave game code unfinished, though that is basically because of his apparent unwillingness to work his weekends on his own dime to polish past games, ala Lyman.
https://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&ppl=Lonnie%20D.%20Ropp
Note that most of the games he worked on that are considered "greats" also had Lyman or another coder on them to provide finishing polish.