Create your own game engine but don’t use it (2017)

It had all the best features:

… It only took us a year…

Now, I wouldn’t say that all this work was a waste of time; in fact, I believe that there were many benefits to this endeavour:

If you’ve ever wanted to know what happens behind the scenes of a game engine, this is a great way to do it. High overheads / development time – It took us over a year to create our game engine, and even then, it had only a fraction of the features available in an existing engine such as Unity, Unreal or CryEngine. All in all, it was a great experience to create our own game engine and our team learned a lot about how these enormous systems are designed, but also how costly developing game engines can be.

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