AWS game engine - lumberyard

[Faux Amis]

On 2020-04-08 04:44, evilrat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 17:50:02 UTC, Faux Amis wrote:
>> Did anybody get Amazon's game-engine to work with D? :)
>>
>> https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/details/
> 
> (Just my personal opinion, feel free to ignore it, esp. since I don't 
> work in gamedev)
> 
> I wouldn't recommend using it unless you're a mid to large sized 
> company. It requires great level of expertise and has large codebase 
> which means modifying it will be a torture unless you can't afford $10k 
> workstation. I also assume there will be leftovers from CryEngine 3 here 
> and there which was... um.. sorry, no comments.
> 
> Back to the point. Technically there shouldn't be anything that stops 
> you to make D plugin to the engine using their "bus" mechanisms. It will 
> require a lot of work though to even just make simple moving object demo 
> (that's why mid+ sized company is a must).
> 
> 
> 
> If you just look for advice about complexity and possibility to use it 
> with D here is my approx. ratings for major engines (first score - ease 
> of integration, second score - overall usability and engine quality, all 
> scores from 0 to 10):
> 
> - CryEngine 5 | 6 / 4  (uses regular shared libs, should be relatively 
> easy)
> - Unity       | 7 / 7
> - Godot       | 7 / 5  (it already has some D integration so the score 
> is that high)
> - UnrealEngine| 2 / 7  (requires a lot of metadata, and there is no docs 
> about it)
> - Lumberyard  | 5 / 5  (probably you want to stick with ebus, not sure 
> about plain DLL's)
> 
> Even though some engines such as UE4 is a PITA to integrate with, you 
> can go the other way around and implement your game as DLL and then use 
> the engine to visualize game world state and handle/forward 
> physics/input/events to your game code.
> 
> Again, this is just my personal experience, and it may or may not 
> reflect real state of affairs.
> 
> 
> Anyway if you're looking to actually finish a game then just use Unity 
> or Unreal, if you want to make whole game in D no matter the odds - do 
> it, ignore engines, take some ECS framework and add features as you go.

Thanks for your nice overview!

With all this time sitting at home I wanted to get into game dev again. 
I do have experience with UE4 and Unity... but somehow I really was 
looking forward to coding in D again :)

Might be worth looking into Godot.