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    Quote Originally Posted by phibermon View Post
    Agree again - lack of users - something I'm very much aware of! but it's certainly not a lack of potential users. To my mind the two biggest barriers to 3D development are :

    1. Lack of knowledge in the 3D realm

    2. Lack of 3D resources to use in games or the skills to make them cheaply
    Why are you so convinced that in order for a game nowadays to become popular it needs to have 3D graphics? You know there are many popular 2D based games out there?
    Here is a list of 6 2D based games (that I know of who) are amongst top 100 most currently popular Steam games (http://steamcharts.com/top):

    1. Terraria at 20th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/105600
    2. Stardew Valley at 29th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/413150
    3. RimWorld at 50th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/294100
    4. Factorio at 54th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/427520
    5. Oxygen Not Included at 67th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/457140
    6. Starbound at 75th place: http://steamcharts.com/app/211820


    Quote Originally Posted by phibermon View Post
    All engines so far, have stop too short in terms capability, to gain a meaningful user-base, given the already small number of potential users.
    Have you ever asked why did this happen? I did and I believe that the main cause for this is too low user base which is killing the motivation for engine developers to continue their work on them.

    Quote Originally Posted by phibermon View Post
    Again I agree - perhaps then a tutorial that shows how to do the same basic thing in three different engines?
    I was more thinking about tutorials about game development parts that are not dependent on game engines but sure when you need to visually show something we could make examples that would work with different existing game engines.
    Last edited by SilverWarior; 18-03-2017 at 02:44 AM.

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