Elysian Shadows

and ONLY an engine, not developing any games with it. Here is why, when I want to do something with the game in mind, I tend to overcomplicate things and never end up starting it. So I think I want to develop some unique engine. Simple and something that works with minimum bugs... LOL all this talk is nonsense until I have a pseudo code written

Why don't you use a 3rd party engine? There is really good stuff out there.

K-Bal wrote:Why don't you use a 3rd party engine? There is really good stuff out there.

/agreed

I think he only wants to write the engine guys, i agree that theres some amazing engines out there but he says he doesn't want to make a game just the engine.

MrDeathNote wrote:I think he only wants to write the engine guys, i agree that theres some amazing engines out there but he says he doesn't want to make a game just the engine.

Ah I see, However I would still recommend using some of the engines out there to get a feel of how they work, so that if the goal is really to build an engine it wont epic fail

Case in point: **most good engine programmers have good experience with other engines and a good knowledge of how they are built**

GroundUpEngine wrote:

MrDeathNote wrote:I think he only wants to write the engine guys, i agree that theres some amazing engines out there but he says he doesn't want to make a game just the engine.

Ah I see, However I would still recommend using some of the engines out there to get a feel of how they work, so that if the goal is really to build an engine it wont epic fail

Case in point: **most good engine programmers have good experience with other engines and a good knowledge of how they are built**

Agreed

I think I know what your talking about because I've done this. I think what you want is not to write an engine but to write a simple code base that can be used to start any game you may may wish to make. For example I have a class in which I have all the basic functionality a game may need such as drawing sprites or playing sounds. I then need to just add this to any new project and I have something from nothing. This is very different from an engine as such.

Well I guess you would have to define what an "Engine" really is. To me an engine is, a collection of systems/managers that work in conjunction with outside content in order to produce a piece of software. To me an engine is the driving force of the game, without it all you would have is just a bunch of game/media files.

DaveB wrote:Well I guess you would have to define what an "Engine" really is. To me an engine is, a collection of systems/managers that work in conjunction with outside content in order to produce a piece of software. To me an engine is the driving force of the game, without it all you would have is just a bunch of game/media files.

/agreed