So whatever happened to the whole PGDCE thing?

[laggyluk]

When I first joined this site there were quite a few nice little frameworks that worked out of the box and allowed people to make games easily. Many of these are not developed anymore and as a consequence there is a lack of some basic functionality that allows people to create games with decent graphical performance.

So whilst I fundamentally agree, writing games is the ultimate goal, for those that have a great idea in terms of gameplay but lack some of the finer technical skills to make it work when it comes to the graphics etc. what can they do?

Pick up any other existing engine? There's no reason to stick with pascal if someone wants to make a game, on the contrary. And if someone wants to make a pascal engine he should first make couple of games in other engines to see how it's done anyways.

For example people arguing over using VK key codes in previous posts might discover that in proper engine it's necessary to define input actions and map them to keys instead of using key codes directly.