Thanks for reading. Are you a game developer? A hobbyist, small studio, or large? I would love to know what sorts of things you would like to see change, even as a player.
I would attempt to temper my criticism because I think it's great that you're putting it out there.
The short of it: this reads like a wish-list of a hardcore engine programmer that is for the most part divorced from market realities (the business side of game-dev) and what players actually want/care about. Therefor it is mostly irrelevant.
Background: I've worked professionally in game development for the last ~13.5 years and am currently running a small indie studio (5 employees).
My partner is a game designer and works mainly in Unreal Engine. I was blown away by the power of the visual scripting languages, being able to write complicated procedures with dragging and dropping blocks. Despite not having prior programming experience, she was able to race through learning it and quickly hit walls where she wanted to do more. She learned C++ and Unreals APIs but still encountered walls. It’s interesting because the engine sets up the developer(s) to work on this happy path and all multiplayer frameworks and infrastructure is built in.
My question is, in a age of the game engine duopoly, what needs to be done to enact these asks? Some of them run antithetical to the business model of these engines. Is there an open source-y game engine that she should be learning?
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 29.6 ms ] threadThe short of it: this reads like a wish-list of a hardcore engine programmer that is for the most part divorced from market realities (the business side of game-dev) and what players actually want/care about. Therefor it is mostly irrelevant.
Background: I've worked professionally in game development for the last ~13.5 years and am currently running a small indie studio (5 employees).
My question is, in a age of the game engine duopoly, what needs to be done to enact these asks? Some of them run antithetical to the business model of these engines. Is there an open source-y game engine that she should be learning?