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depends on the type of game. For 2D games libGDX is actually a pretty nice framework. Slay the Spire was written using it, and what did it gross like 100M?

by afpx 4y ago

SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
I will say, having been the guy saying he really enjoyed StS in the sibling comment, that the devs of StS have gone on record saying that they probably would have chosen another library other than libGDX if they did it again. My understanding is that it’s simply the same reason as I mentioned in my comment - libGDX simply isn’t used enough and that’s a ding against it when you can go and use unity/Mono and have a thousand stack overflow questions for every one stackoverflow libgdx question. Edit: apparently unity has been off mono for about 3 years now. Tangential but interesting
- lelanthran 4y ago
  I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not. iOW, as long as a large enough userbase and codebase exists, popularity doesn't matter for getting answers. Might matter for shaking out bugs, enhancements, etc, but not for learning resources.
  - raincole 4y ago
    > I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not. It's the exact opposite. I really don't know how you got this conclusion. The quality of the answers from ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever highly depends on how many learning materials in the training set. In other words, popuplarity matters more than any time ever. If you don't believe me, ask ChatGPT to write a Blender addon, then ask it to do something similar but for Houdini. The difference is day and night. By the way, Houdini is basically used for every single VFX studio. Even that doesn't reach the "large enough userbase" needed for ChatGPT to generate quality answers.

depends on the type of game. For 2D games libGDX is actually a pretty nice framework. Slay the Spire was written using it, and what did it gross like 100M?

by afpx 4y ago

depends on the type of game. For 2D games libGDX is actually a pretty nice framework. Slay the Spire was written using it, and what did it gross like 100M?

SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago

I will say, having been the guy saying he really enjoyed StS in the sibling comment, that the devs of StS have gone on record saying that they probably would have chosen another library other than libGDX if they did it again. My understanding is that it’s simply the same reason as I mentioned in my comment - libGDX simply isn’t used enough and that’s a ding against it when you can go and use unity/Mono and have a thousand stack overflow questions for every one stackoverflow libgdx question. Edit: apparently unity has been off mono for about 3 years now. Tangential but interesting

lelanthran 4y ago
I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not. iOW, as long as a large enough userbase and codebase exists, popularity doesn't matter for getting answers. Might matter for shaking out bugs, enhancements, etc, but not for learning resources.
- raincole 4y ago
  > I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not. It's the exact opposite. I really don't know how you got this conclusion. The quality of the answers from ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever highly depends on how many learning materials in the training set. In other words, popuplarity matters more than any time ever. If you don't believe me, ask ChatGPT to write a Blender addon, then ask it to do something similar but for Houdini. The difference is day and night. By the way, Houdini is basically used for every single VFX studio. Even that doesn't reach the "large enough userbase" needed for ChatGPT to generate quality answers.