I started making games in Klik & Play, The Games Factory, and Multimedia Fusion, before moving on to Unity Now making my last Unity game, after which I'm either going for Monogame or just SDL3. Funny thing is, the engine I'll make for my future games will probably be closer to Clickteam than Unity - ThreadSky

nifflas.bsky.social • 11 days ago

I started making games in Klik & Play, The Games Factory, and Multimedia Fusion, before moving on to Unity

Now making my last Unity game, after which I'm either going for Monogame or just SDL3. Funny thing is, the engine I'll make for my future games will probably be closer to Clickteam than Unity

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raicuparta.com•11 days ago

I started "making games" in Knytt Stories :) Watching people play my levels, seeing their reactions, etc. Especially remember noticing how subtle changes in the level designs could affect how people explored the levels. Had a huge impact in making me interested in game dev.

borbware.itch.io•11 days ago

klik & play... how i wish i still had my first creations i made with it :D

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah! None of mine were ever finished. I just started projects I had no hope of finishing for... 7 years? until I suddenly decided to make Modarchive Story and have released games ever since

borbware.itch.io•11 days ago

i made several small games! then i started an action rpg megaproject i made for a few years until it inevitably fell apart

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's still better than me! I started several small games but never finished any of them. Then I thought I was ready for my own action rpg megaproject.

I wasn't X)

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

like, how did I think I was ready for that when I couldn't even finish something small haha

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

I shouldn't look at it with too much regret tho, it worked out in the end :)

monogame.net•10 days ago

Our Discord channel is very active, should you need help and advice - https://discord.com/invite/monogame

nifflas.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thank you!

I'm still a bit torn though, I've pretty much settled on either Monogame or just SDL3 with C# bindings, but time will tell which one I'll go for :)

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

I was maybe unfairly harsh toward Multimedia Fusion as I outgrew it, it wasn't after when using Unity that I realized many things it does are actually really good. Like, unlike Unity, the order of things that happen is always extremely clear and a result of the game logic itself

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

From Ynglet, I phased out most of Unity's flow of when things happen, for my own system. The order when things happen is 100% determined by my code, and defining the order is not optional - but a direct result of the initialization order, as all objects needs to explicitly initialize their children

nifflas.bsky.social•11 days ago

Also, fixed point collision system - extremely underrated!

I got really good writing collision/movement logic MMF2's fastloop system, and I've never capitalized on that knowledge since I moved to Unity. I'm gonna return to that.

waha06x36.c3.cx•10 days ago

There are a lot of very good reasons to not build your own engine, but, there sure are some very good reasons to do it as well. I get very itchy if I don’t have full control of the entire program flow.

nifflas.bsky.social•10 days ago

For sure!

I think I'm in a good place to do it. I know my needs, but I'm pragmatic so I won't stall forever trying to create the "perfect" engine.

Plus utilizing SDL3, the complexity of it won't remotely compare to my adaptive music software anyway, so I've already done something harder.

nifflas.bsky.social•10 days ago

A lot of my structural code will even be adapted directly from my Unity code (with a bit of refactoring of course), since each project is becoming less dependent on the Unity API.

The system for tracking, finding, organizing entities, and propagating various draw/physics calls is already there :)

ultiman3rd.bsky.social•11 days ago

Will you be making something small for your first game in your engine, to prove it out? Perhaps a remake of one of your older games or a mini sequel?

nifflas.bsky.social•10 days ago

It'll absolutely be small, probably several small games. But precisely what, I won't think about before then

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