Any Updates?

[Action52]

[monkeyfrogstudio]

I don't think that GameGuru MAX is actually a "direct competitor" of Skyline. While both are game engines, they both have a very different game making philosophy. GGMAX is restricted to First Person games only, for example. With Skyline you can make any sort of game or application you like - FPS, third person, strategy, card game, an application that is not a game at all, and more. GGMAX is very, very restricted in it's scope - and it's early access release in March will only feature FPS games. Skyline is more inline with Unreal, Unity, S2, and other game engines that allow you full creative freedom in creating a game. While there will be some overlap between the two (just like there is overlap between GGMAX and the other game engines mentioned), I don't really see GGMAX and Skyline as direct competitors (not any more than Unreal and Unity are any more direct competitors). GGMAX is more in it's own category than, I would say.

[StarFire]

@monkeyfrog well said.

We are going to aim for the week after next to start the public beta release.The design is not going to change anymore, just to further improve upon.

[Action52]

S2 hobby engine with alot of bugs, Flax engine similar as Unreal and Unity. GGMAX - constructor type of engine as Skyline. Well I liked this engine the most his logic is simply magnificent, but version 1 is outdated and has bugs and for v2 update logs are not frequent, there is no persistence.

[monkeyfrogstudio]

[Action52]

quote: {-Skyline is in the same league as Unity, Unreal, and Flax.} Anyway, without updates, he gets less the popularity and the league.
quote: {Why do you want to limit Skyline to this sort of an engine?} Because it is as simple as a game constructor.
Anyway okay, it's not ggm just if the creators went to steam, gumroad, itch.io. actually, I didn't compare it, it's just the first thing that came to my mind when I first launched S. It's just that little is known about the engine, and I accidentally found it while going over the all of engines. Twitter developer is not updated, there are no youtube reviews, and several articles on sites dedicated to game development
Sorry for my english

[Action52]

[monkeyfrogstudio]

Patience. They will announce when it is available. Life happens and sometimes things slow us down. We are also living in a world with a pandemic that causes things to happen that we cannot account for.

[StarFire]

We are still on target.

[Action52]

sounds like allegory

[Action52]

Still on target?

[monkeyfrogstudio]

Patience. Patience. And yet another dose of patience. They will announce when it is ready for the public.

[Action52]

thx wise frog, ofcouse i forgot about patience

[SolarPortal]

ok, here is a new blog outlying the next phase of the engine.
Rest assured the public beta is a lot closer than you think, we are just giving headroom

[monkeyfrogstudio]

Wow ...

[Action52]

magic

[monkeyfrogstudio]

[Action52]

mby, better open pro old ver v1

[StarFire]

I have started giving the modules better control of character and NPC AI.
The version is about ready to release. I will bring this topic back up with Solar.

[Action52]

[Zethael]

Hi StarFire,
i'm very excited. I have one question, hope that's okay for you to answer:
How will the 3D characters with animations be imported? This is an important thing for me, because i can't handle mecanim in unity right now. For me it's the easiest way to put in the frames manually.
I tested the v1.0 lite a long time ago, that's why i'm still interested in using the skyline engine instead of unreal or unity.
Thanks for never give up skyline engine even in the hard times.

[Action52]

yup magic date, good time for realize boom 22.02.2022

[StarFire]

@Zethael
You can manually add anims from the editor or auto load the separate files on main model load.

[StarFire]

@Action52
yes would have been a good date for a release. Work is still going on with the modules so we can have easy to use charater mechanics.

[Action52]