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What we need is a AAA game where the main character fiddles around on an in-game DAW in some abandoned recording studio to unlock a cool zombie-blasting weapon.

What we need is a AAA game where the main character fiddles around on an in-game DAW in some abandoned recording studio to unlock a cool zombie-blasting weapon. That will guarantee that any widget redrawing therein happens as efficiently and responsive as possible. Maybe put it in the first level so that audio engineers can easily get to it and just hang out in that part of the game to do their work, glitch free.

Klaster_1 3y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/app/243220/FRACT_OSC/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/243220/FRACT_OSC/
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
I do feel like there should be more crossover between video game & GUI development; most game engines are crossplatform nowadays, GUIs in games are nothing new (and probably reinvented all the time), and everything is GPU rendered already. I've yet to see any desktop app that isn't a video game built in e.g. Unreal or Unity. I did see a colleague build a website widget (iirc it was about placing furniture or a TV in a living room to see what it looks like) using Unity though, that was pretty cool.
- suby 3y ago
  I have seen a handful of desktop software apps built in Godot over the years. For example, https://bauxite.itch.io/bitmapflow https://bauxite.itch.io/bitmapflow is an app which I've gotten value out of built in Godot.
  - raincole 3y ago
    My favorite Godot app is Material Maker (https://www.materialmaker.org/ https://www.materialmaker.org/). I downloaded it when Substance Designer was acquired by Adoboe. I'd say it actually has better usability than Designer.
- raincole 3y ago
  Because Unity's UI old system (ugui) is actually not that good? From my experience using web+Electron is just so, so much easier. By the way, SimCity's UI is done by a custom version of WebKit. https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984 https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984
- SSLy 3y ago
  > I've yet to see any desktop app that isn't a video game built in e.g. Unreal or Unity. https://arkenforge.com/ https://arkenforge.com/
bitL 3y ago
There is a bunch of those in VR. Probably more fun than on a 2D screen in pseudo 3D.
cyclotron3k 3y ago
While reading the original post, I kept thinking about Nanite

Klaster_1 3y ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/243220/FRACT_OSC/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/243220/FRACT_OSC/

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

I do feel like there should be more crossover between video game & GUI development; most game engines are crossplatform nowadays, GUIs in games are nothing new (and probably reinvented all the time), and everything is GPU rendered already. I've yet to see any desktop app that isn't a video game built in e.g. Unreal or Unity. I did see a colleague build a website widget (iirc it was about placing furniture or a TV in a living room to see what it looks like) using Unity though, that was pretty cool.

suby 3y ago
I have seen a handful of desktop software apps built in Godot over the years. For example, https://bauxite.itch.io/bitmapflow https://bauxite.itch.io/bitmapflow is an app which I've gotten value out of built in Godot.
- raincole 3y ago
  My favorite Godot app is Material Maker (https://www.materialmaker.org/ https://www.materialmaker.org/). I downloaded it when Substance Designer was acquired by Adoboe. I'd say it actually has better usability than Designer.
raincole 3y ago
Because Unity's UI old system (ugui) is actually not that good? From my experience using web+Electron is just so, so much easier. By the way, SimCity's UI is done by a custom version of WebKit. https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984 https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984
SSLy 3y ago
> I've yet to see any desktop app that isn't a video game built in e.g. Unreal or Unity. https://arkenforge.com/ https://arkenforge.com/

bitL 3y ago

There is a bunch of those in VR. Probably more fun than on a 2D screen in pseudo 3D.

cyclotron3k 3y ago

While reading the original post, I kept thinking about Nanite