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> some poking around It's just one click on the logo to go their home page that says it's a game engine with some big features like being open source.

ncmncm 7y ago
If you happen to click on exactly the right thing, maybe you get taken somewhere useful. Or, not, as in this case. I needed to do quite a lot more clicking to verify it is C++, and more to find out it (or anyway the part I saw) is C++03. A single sentence in the announcement, or even on the home page, would have saved that effort. Being mysterious must provide some other benefit, to someone, if it has such vehement defenders. I know better than to ask what or who.
- imtringued 7y ago
  >Being mysterious must provide some other benefit, to someone, if it has such vehement defenders. I know better than to ask what or who. I don't know what axe you have to grind but what you're doing is basically the equivalent of looking at the fifth page of a bus schedule and then getting angry at not knowing what a bus is even though it is clearly written on page one. If you want an introduction to a product then go on the home page [0], the features site [1], the Wikipedia site [2], anywhere except the darn release notes. People are getting angry because there are huge big fat eye catching buttons in the header that point to these pages and you're purposefully ignoring them to the point that you're basically trolling. [0] https://godotengine.org/ https://godotengine.org/ [1] https://godotengine.org/features https://godotengine.org/features [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine)
  - ncmncm 7y ago
    Two out of those three links do not quickly reveal anything meaningful to anybody not already familiar with the project. Really, what is so difficult about this?

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> some poking around It's just one click on the logo to go their home page that says it's a game engine with some big features like being open source.

by preommr 7y ago

ncmncm 7y ago
If you happen to click on exactly the right thing, maybe you get taken somewhere useful. Or, not, as in this case. I needed to do quite a lot more clicking to verify it is C++, and more to find out it (or anyway the part I saw) is C++03. A single sentence in the announcement, or even on the home page, would have saved that effort. Being mysterious must provide some other benefit, to someone, if it has such vehement defenders. I know better than to ask what or who.
- imtringued 7y ago
  >Being mysterious must provide some other benefit, to someone, if it has such vehement defenders. I know better than to ask what or who. I don't know what axe you have to grind but what you're doing is basically the equivalent of looking at the fifth page of a bus schedule and then getting angry at not knowing what a bus is even though it is clearly written on page one. If you want an introduction to a product then go on the home page [0], the features site [1], the Wikipedia site [2], anywhere except the darn release notes. People are getting angry because there are huge big fat eye catching buttons in the header that point to these pages and you're purposefully ignoring them to the point that you're basically trolling. [0] https://godotengine.org/ https://godotengine.org/ [1] https://godotengine.org/features https://godotengine.org/features [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine)
  - ncmncm 7y ago
    Two out of those three links do not quickly reveal anything meaningful to anybody not already familiar with the project. Really, what is so difficult about this?