It’s been a bit quiet lately though… There are a ton of 2D Minecraft / Terraria clones in the WIP section right now.
- Jev
Sweet.
There is a god.
@Kevglass: But the WIP-Sections acutal name is “WIP games, tools & toy projects”, so basicly it is also made for engines, as they are also gaming related.
I don’t think, that games lose attention, cause there are to many engines here, they lose attention, if the post does not attract attention.
If the game has a good title+good screenshot and is updated regularly it will gain some attention, even if there are many engine threads. If someone is not interested in WIP-Engines, he won’t look at them, even if they are in WIP-Section.
So i don’t guess thats a real problem.
Instead, the projects, which aren’t really projects/not developed anymore, should be moved. Ofc this is a lot of work, but the community could help by flaging them. Projects with many flags could then be checked and moved.
This is a great idea. Don’t write libraries or engines. Write games.
20 years of programming experience, and i still need to relearn this every now and then.
I’d even say that, if someone really wants to make something more generic/flexible, it’d probably be better to develop a game with modding capabilities, rather than a general use engine.
I think we can’t provide theses statements with this simplicity when most of amateur dev works in their free time in stuff they “like” whatever it will be usefull or not.
So if your goal is to built a game and won money with it, maybe you should’nt go into the way of writing an engine (or equivalent).
But as opposed, if you want learn, have fun and that’s fun come with such tasks !! why not !!
I know that peoples here don’t really like or approve guys that work on theses own stuffs but for me it’s not a bad things if it has not a negative impact (by exemple on a team or budget, …)
Personnaly, i can work on a library even if i have no plan to use it because it’s fun for me !!!
Now, i agree that we can have some variable “quality level” of theses homemade engines.
But if a day i post what i done as framework (2d only), it will not for providing the “next level tools” but mainly for have feedback about it and improve it.
I assume that this forum is for such purpose !!!
Séb.
I would like to ask about those other non-engine libraries like OGServer and GNetLib?
Isn’t the whole idea of this move to convince people to make games? So how are these two examples ‘games’ by any chance?
I’m trying not to be mean here but it does seem a bit unfair…
I second that!
Maybe a Tech board would encourage some more hardware / software / computer topics? I mean, this is a game dev. forum, but it is still computer gaming.