Finding that there is a lot of confusion about what making "your own engine" actually means practically for #gamedev developers.
Custom engines don't need to be glorified as this higher or extremely difficult thing. Build the OpenGL/SDL2 ImGui example and I feel like you're 80% of the way there.
The problem is that after "engine" (be it game maker or unity or SDL2 or a TI-83) you still have to make the actual game.
Here's npub1znzvfaq0hzhrnn4ef5pgnkntkt0aasqmym86tl64t94gtlakalcs978l64 (npub1znz…8l64) talking about this over on cohost: https://cohost.org/eniko/post/2852222-what-does-make-your
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2023-09-15 20:21:23
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