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Picking a game engine that subtracts hundreds of millions of potential players from your game without huge engineering effort to support a single console? Yea,
by hesdeadjim 4y ago
Picking a game engine that subtracts hundreds of millions of potential players from your game without huge engineering effort to support a single console? Yea, that's a problem.
Thankfully, Godot is solving it!
- codingcodingboy 4y ago
- TillE 4y agoThere are many successful game genres which are functionally PC-only, because you cannot reasonably play them with a gamepad. See Paradox grand strategy games, for example. Those "potential buyers" never existed.
- sorry_outta_gas 4y agoI play some paradox games on xbox with no problem, they are included with gamepass now
- the_only_law 4y agoI’m not touching CK3 on Xbox until I get the royal court DLC. I think a better genre GP could have considered are classic RTS’s. No way AoE is ever playable without a mouse.
- Macha 4y agoCK3/Stellaris proved you could do grand strategy on console. Halo Wars 1/2 proved you could do RTS on console. Cities Skylines/Prison Architect proved you could do Sim games on console. FFXIV proved you could do hotkey MMOs on console. While you certainly can't forklift existing games like aoe2/sc2 onto a controller, I'm pretty much out of the business of assuming consoles are unsuitable for genres these days
- jbboehr 4y agoStellaris was ported to console and works fairly well! I still would rather play it with a keyboard and mouse, of course :)
- johnnyanmac 4y agoBest to start small with your first few games regardless. porting is always harder than the industry leads on to suggest and to be frank, your first games will suck a lot. Porting can come after making something people want to play. But all of that is tangential to why I wouldn't recommend Godot for a first game not unless you are already a competent C++ programmer and are ready to dig into the engine for problem. But I always like when I can chime in on how frustrating the porting process is.
- Shorel 4y agoSome big ones I care about are still PC only. Like iRacing.