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1000% agree. At the end of the day, I’m writing an engine because as an engineer it’s something I enjoy, but holy hell I’d never reach for it for an actual, serious game. More good stories and perfected mechanics over new rendering pipelines please!

So my view is I am starting more back into game dev, but I look more at Unreal due to it's acess to it's market, the amount of guides and how easy I feel I can get started Though of course cause it older, and have heard about"Gdot?" (forgot the name) I just wanna tell a story!

I agree, been a lot more tech focused than design focused lately across the game dev media... Plus nobody seems to be talking about some stuff with Indiana Jones that is very old school that designers have needed for a while IMO

I get the engine argument because small games that rely on many preset components *or whatever (idk anything)* can feel similar, but needing new mechanics feels weird. Sometimes just creating a new story and environment, polishing what was already there is just what I want from a game.

And you get to pay full price for each episode ;).

That was the idea… it’s just ends up being big enough to grab the audience’s attention is the bigger problem

this made me laugh way too hard... thanks!

Game design is sooo important but realistically no one outside of industry really cares from what I’ve found. :( Also hard agree on the thought that everything has to be new being somewhat damaging. Tropes can be friends!