Duion {l Wrote}:5 Years ago there may have been the need for a libre game engine, but not now anymore.
With available ready to use tools you can finish a game prototype within a few months now, if you develop the engine first, this process is probably delayed by years.
The only reason to make a new engine is, if there is something totally revolutionary or some kind of niche or special case that no other available tool covers.
Duion {l Wrote}:Soon we will have more "FOSS game engines" than games. FOSS game development if it exists at all is stalling, developing new engines will not help that, as almost all of them fail or take years until they can be used for something.
Duion {l Wrote}:Sure you can do all that nice and pseudoidealistic talking, but it will not help anything, since as soon as you try to compete on the regular market with your products, you will get utterly crushed by people hating on you.
Duion {l Wrote}:So all people here never intend to succeed with anything and because of that it is fine if their projects never make it anywhere?
Duion {l Wrote}:So I give terrible advice because I base my reasoning in reality?
Duion {l Wrote}:If I do not put people down before, those people in reality will do later and until that there is much more work and time invested and the damage is even bigger.
Akien {l Wrote}:It's because they want to write an engine. They find it fun, rewarding, a great learning process, and so they do it.
Duion {l Wrote}:something is my opinion and I can say that.
Duion {l Wrote}:Not me, but other people you are constantly protecting through your censorship, so they do not have to defend themselves.
Duion {l Wrote}:Not me, but other people you are constantly protecting through your censorship, so they do not have to defend themselves.
So people outside there in reality just laugh at you "FOSS game developers" and do not take you seriously at all and you do not even try to improve that.
GNU/Linux on the desktop has no impact on the market as well, so everybody who develops desktop applications for it is wasting his/her time and should concentrate on server side programing where GNU/Linux has a fair market share. Or if he/she really wants to make a desktop application he/she has to focus on MS Windows and Mac OSX.
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