Who needs an game engine anymore? (google sketchup)

[noeska]

Google Sketchup continues to amaze me. Now they have realy done it.

The first game running inside sketchup is an fact.

Even better is that it can be modified on the fly. Realy amazing. Who needs lbp on ps3 or for that matter develop an gameengine anymore as Google Sketchup is now all in one.

You can watch an movie and download it at: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=14291 (including ruby- and java-script sourcecode).

[arthurprs]

too bad that scripting is made with ruby =[

[User137]

Nice idea and and i can imagine uses are numerous, but performance? I doubt it can get close to modern games in it. Although the video said that you can use C++ etc as plugins to stress demanding parts...

[noeska]

Google Sketchup makes an easy to use character and level editor. E.g. see it as an RAD for game development.

But even as an game engine it is capable enough, although you need to use 'accelerated' plugins for that like sketchy physics. Bear in mind that google sketchup was never developed to be a game engine. And yet i feel it can beat some 3D engines. But a game like Little Big Planet can be made within it.

Ruby is a very nice clean language. Easy to program and yet powerfull.

Also somewhere on this forum i made a posting sometime ago on using delphi together with ruby and sketchup.