I am sure you have heard over the past week of the release of Unity 5 and UE4 released for free.
What i would like to know from you lot is:
Q> Have you used them?
Q> Why have you used them?
Q> What was it that got you to try them, the marketing, website, imagery, videos, tech showcases, GDC conference videos?
Q> What do you think skyline lacks that would cause you to use another engine?
Q> What is your opinion and where do you think we should improve or focus that would make you use skyline again?
We would love to hear all your thoughts and opinions.
I know its a strange topic, but we would like to know for our own reference and direction. We already know some of you are really into skyline and may not have even tried the new versions ( in which we commend you our loyal skyline knights )
Of course, we are aiming at the more entry level and hobbyist game developers, so it is a slightly different market.
Summary so far of improvements required stated by the posts:
- AI - This seems to be the most common things across all posts.
- Script Debugging (Started, partly done)
- Networking
- Procedural Generation (vegetation all the way to entities etc...)
- Asset Generation
- Questing, Story Builder & Speech System (Red engine for witcher series have a good take on this.)
- 64 bit (this is now possible and is already under development again).
- Multi Preset
- VR - Occulus, Steam Vive and OSVR(Supports many VR systems)