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This looks really powerful, the feature list definitely allows making a decent game, and the growing trend of minimal UI in dev kits is a really promising direc
by omershapira 13y ago
This looks really powerful, the feature list definitely allows making a decent game, and the growing trend of minimal UI in dev kits is a really promising direction; though I can't help but wondering about open source platform beginnings.
The way openFrameworks started was kind of similar: "We already know what creative coders are looking for, so we took a bunch of open source libraries and made them work together. Go play" - and that worked fine for them 8 years ago, now it's kinda different, because the open source world is full of decent kits.
Having switched between 3 creative programming kits in the past year, I'm kind of reluctant to give my heart to a new one that starts exactly like that. Maybe, for these kinds of projects, a 'mission statement' would help people buy into it. That doesn't mean that mission statements are for good, but I think it's really important to know more than it's just a good game engine. Please let me fall in love with it.
- X4 13y ago@omershapira I really appreciate it that you share your prior experiences with us. I have not contacted the author yet to inform him about the HN post, but could you take the chance and tell him about your experiences with similar tools? I believe your knowledge and usage experience will be beneficient to all us. Here's the authors contact info: Anaël Seghezzi, France anael (a) maratis3d.com