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I was wondering, are there any games that use Grid? I would be curious to see some real-world examples using the engine, especially the multiplayer component.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago
Planimeter dogfoods by working on Grid Engine: Sandbox which is a sort of non-game Garry's Mod 2D sandbox which is where the development team makes features production-ready. We integrate with Steamworks for consulting purposes, but will probably not end up publishing there ourselves, and really advise clients to not do it. We're a bit tied up with with some consulting projects at the moment, so Grid Engine 10 has been in slower development than the last few years. We're planning on providing commercial licenses for small studios at something like a one-time $999/license with things like out-of-the-box community server support and at-cost multiplayer infrastructure, which is something like $15/yr for roughly 1,000 concurrent players at 20-tick. I find it to be a competitive advantage that we provide community server browsers in the engine directly (think Source or further back, Gamespy/Quakespy) and no one else seems to do this? We also use the common Gamespy server browser protocol, which is also a de facto standard. I would be curious as to why major studios don't also do the same, but the answer is that most of them want to control the servers today and not let you run your own communities anymore. Unity allows Multiplay to basically own that, which I think is telling that they don't care about that developer experience. Godot has no answer to any of this. You also have to roll your own multiplayer entirely. Planimeter doesn't compete with Unity 2D mobile games. We try and stay away from that sort of image. Our software and licensing is intended to compete with desktop 2D games.
- nonbirithm 5y ago
  So there are no released titles? Or at least ones that are publicly playable? I don't see any search results for Grid Engine: Sandbox.
  - andrewmcwatters 5y ago
    Correct, our two audiences are delivering a professional grade 2D game engine that surpasses what’s possible with Unity 2D to hobbyists with Grid Engine 9 and Grid Engine 10 Community Edition, and then delivering to small studios on Grid Engine 10 Professional Edition. The company has been around for 11 years and was previously a Source Engine contractor. So if it seems strange that company has been doing nothing for a decade, it’s because it’s not our primary revenue stream, but up until now has been our largest open source product that I plan on commercializing. It’s a very slow process, but one that I think we can still outpace Unity’s 2D offering on, considering that they do not deliver solutions our organization has needed for several years. And that’s their primary revenue source.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago

Planimeter dogfoods by working on Grid Engine: Sandbox which is a sort of non-game Garry's Mod 2D sandbox which is where the development team makes features production-ready. We integrate with Steamworks for consulting purposes, but will probably not end up publishing there ourselves, and really advise clients to not do it. We're a bit tied up with with some consulting projects at the moment, so Grid Engine 10 has been in slower development than the last few years. We're planning on providing commercial licenses for small studios at something like a one-time $999/license with things like out-of-the-box community server support and at-cost multiplayer infrastructure, which is something like $15/yr for roughly 1,000 concurrent players at 20-tick. I find it to be a competitive advantage that we provide community server browsers in the engine directly (think Source or further back, Gamespy/Quakespy) and no one else seems to do this? We also use the common Gamespy server browser protocol, which is also a de facto standard. I would be curious as to why major studios don't also do the same, but the answer is that most of them want to control the servers today and not let you run your own communities anymore. Unity allows Multiplay to basically own that, which I think is telling that they don't care about that developer experience. Godot has no answer to any of this. You also have to roll your own multiplayer entirely. Planimeter doesn't compete with Unity 2D mobile games. We try and stay away from that sort of image. Our software and licensing is intended to compete with desktop 2D games.

nonbirithm 5y ago
So there are no released titles? Or at least ones that are publicly playable? I don't see any search results for Grid Engine: Sandbox.
- andrewmcwatters 5y ago
  Correct, our two audiences are delivering a professional grade 2D game engine that surpasses what’s possible with Unity 2D to hobbyists with Grid Engine 9 and Grid Engine 10 Community Edition, and then delivering to small studios on Grid Engine 10 Professional Edition. The company has been around for 11 years and was previously a Source Engine contractor. So if it seems strange that company has been doing nothing for a decade, it’s because it’s not our primary revenue stream, but up until now has been our largest open source product that I plan on commercializing. It’s a very slow process, but one that I think we can still outpace Unity’s 2D offering on, considering that they do not deliver solutions our organization has needed for several years. And that’s their primary revenue source.