xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu Just use N88-BASIC it's just essentially Microsoft BASIC, even down to having the same graphic APIs.

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu I honestly wouldn't recommend targeting obscure platforms unless you are really experienced at creating games. Community is a really important factor when choosing a language, framework, engine, platform, etc.

@jyushimatsu @PurpCat
>unless they wanted to make an engine for anyone else to use, but i don't see that quite often either it's usually just personal use and then they die

People who write their own engines do so either because they don't want their game to have that samey feel that most games using the same engine have, they want to target older/more obscure platforms, or don't like how bloated most modern engines are. As for allowing others to use their engines, there have been successful and popular engines that were originally used for indie games. Godot comes to mind.

@jyushimatsu @PurpCat
>the ones that get caught in the game engine autism always get me
like they actually are talented and have motivation, you could probably have them working at a AAA game company but their brain worms are intense and you can't convince them to do something else
wasted potential

Not much anymore, sadly. The internally developed game engine is pretty much dead at this point. Even some subsidiaries at Nintendo are using Unity or Unreal for some games. I wish they would at least compromise and use frameworks like MonoGame or OGRE instead, but I guess it's better for them to use full-blown engines as it makes it easier to reuse assets between games.

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu I think gamedev is something you need to start when you are really young and still have a lot of free-time. You also need to be a rare, patient child who realizes that you aren't going to start by making 3D first-person shooters with online multiplayer. The problem is that most kids aren't willing to learn how to program and can't convince their parents to buy something like the full version of GameMaker for them. I messed with GameMaker Lite as a kid, but I was spoiled and wanted to make 3D games which was only available if you paid $50 for the pro version, and I was too stupid to pirate software back then.

By the time I was in high school and knew how to program graphics using Pygame, I was involved with so many extra-circular activities that I was easily burnt out when I got home.