> This reminds me of why you don't make your own game engine when you are building a game. You'll spend months or years working on exactly what isn't a game. I

> This reminds me of why you don't make your own game engine when you are building a game. You'll spend months or years working on exactly what isn't a game. I've done exactly this. It was a really good game engine - sprites, animation, LUA scripting, and everything. But once I had it running the original inspiration for the game was gone. I learned a lot in the process so I don't count it as wasted time. More recently,I built a my own static site generator like everyone else and their dogs. I guess I really never finished it but it is feature complete enough to do exactly what I need even if nobody else is ever going to use it. Like the gp's forum software, that is a kind of success.