The article is about how hard it is to productize game graphics and the GGGP said its not that hard because there are a ton of small team games with great graph

The article is about how hard it is to productize game graphics and the GGGP said its not that hard because there are a ton of small team games with great graphics. But those teams aren't productizing graphics, they're using an engine that had millions spent on it and a huge team which did it for them. I believe that was the point being made: that its a false comparison. Using someone else's hard work doesn't mean that its easy, just that you don't have to do that work yourself because others have done it for you. > Your "point" comes off as a qualitative judgement about those developers using an off the shelf engine. I didn't read it like that at all. In most cases, for most teams (certainly small ones), using an off the shelf engine is absolutely the right call, exactly because it means you don't have to solve the hard graphics problems yourself. But using an off the shelf engine does not mean that those hard problems don't exist or aren't hard, just that you can outsource them to the engine vendor.