• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If you have the talent and manpower to create your own engine, it’s better business to make that engine your product instead of whatever game you wanted to make.

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      3 months ago

      I disagree here, making an engine you’d sell must be top notch in every aspect (or close to), an in-house engine only needs to get the job done for your game. Probably two orders of magnitude in needed workforce, depending on your needs ofc.

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        3 months ago

        Very very few actual profitable companies roll their own engines.

        Supercell has their own, but it’s because they started before there was anything available.

        Indie games make their own engines but it’s more of a hobby or passion project, not something that can employ two dozen people to develop it.