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Congrats and good work! I thoroughly enjoy every blog post update. Here’s a suggestion. Bevy should invest in a couple of moderately complex sample games that

Congrats and good work! I thoroughly enjoy every blog post update. Here’s a suggestion. Bevy should invest in a couple of moderately complex sample games that are maintained. I think a critical failure of Unity is their refusal “eat their own dog food” so to speak. My recommendation is to put ZERO effort into game design here. Build a few straight clones (within legal bounds, of course). PacMan, Link to the Past, Doom, Quake, Threes, Angry Birds, etc. Pick like 3 that represent a sample of 2D, 3D, etc. And I mean a “full” clone, in terms of functionality although not content. By that I mean main menus, persistent high scores, multiple levels, numerous scenes/levels, etc. I’m extremely confident this will pay off. You could debate whether t should be done sooner or later. I recommend resisting the urge to pushing until more systems stabilize. You need “real” examples to help stabilize and discover the warts.

ptato 5y ago
I'd say this is Godot's biggest mistake. I appreciate and respect the work that has been put into it, but whenever I go back to try it I bounce right off the moment I need to import a 3D model. Either animations don't work, or the materials are off, or some other minor thing that I can't figure out how to fix because there are a ton of buttons and the documentation is too short. There is no good workflow.
- forrestthewoods 5y ago
  To be fair, asset import is incredibly complex and a relative disaster. Content pipelines are the hardest and most complicated problem in modern development imho. Unity grew in an FBX world. Bevy is focusing on the new kid GLTF. I don’t have enough experience with GLTF to predict if it’s full of landmines or not. I’m gonna guess probably.
  - iFire 5y ago
    I am awaiting the day I can try Bevy with my favourite fox model animated. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/blob/master/2.0/Fox/glTF-Binary/Fox.glb https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/blob/mast...
- iFire 5y ago
  My area is 3d asset pipeline. I appreciate bug reports submitted via the Godot Engine bug tracker with notify to @fire, but sad letters here in HN are acceptable too. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues On Godot Engine master work currently.
_cart 5y ago
This is definitely something I believe in wholeheartedly. Game development is an important part of my life and I will be dogfooding Bevy for my own projects, as well as building official "template projects" for various game genres. I probably should have included this in "The Next Year of Bevy" section as I agree that dogfooding is critical when building an engine. And we are at the point in our maturity where this needs to happen.

ptato 5y ago

I'd say this is Godot's biggest mistake. I appreciate and respect the work that has been put into it, but whenever I go back to try it I bounce right off the moment I need to import a 3D model. Either animations don't work, or the materials are off, or some other minor thing that I can't figure out how to fix because there are a ton of buttons and the documentation is too short. There is no good workflow.

forrestthewoods 5y ago
To be fair, asset import is incredibly complex and a relative disaster. Content pipelines are the hardest and most complicated problem in modern development imho. Unity grew in an FBX world. Bevy is focusing on the new kid GLTF. I don’t have enough experience with GLTF to predict if it’s full of landmines or not. I’m gonna guess probably.
- iFire 5y ago
  I am awaiting the day I can try Bevy with my favourite fox model animated. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/blob/master/2.0/Fox/glTF-Binary/Fox.glb https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/blob/mast...
iFire 5y ago
My area is 3d asset pipeline. I appreciate bug reports submitted via the Godot Engine bug tracker with notify to @fire, but sad letters here in HN are acceptable too. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues On Godot Engine master work currently.

_cart 5y ago

This is definitely something I believe in wholeheartedly. Game development is an important part of my life and I will be dogfooding Bevy for my own projects, as well as building official "template projects" for various game genres. I probably should have included this in "The Next Year of Bevy" section as I agree that dogfooding is critical when building an engine. And we are at the point in our maturity where this needs to happen.