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amethyst-engine

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    Comment #20072147

    A more definitive statement regarding projects using Amethyst: We have several so-called showcase games lined up. The only official one at the moment is Evoli: https://github.com/a…

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    Comment #20070912

    Yup, this is true. There are a few of us on the team who work/have worked on some very well known engines (and their ecosystems) meant for AAA game development. =) The more challen…

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    Comment #20070080

    Yup. You can find the current editor work here: https://github.com/amethyst/atelier-editor It is in very early stages. We are developing it as a WASM app that runs in a system webv…

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    Comment #20069696

    >However, as a game developer, using an engine without some substantial dogfooding (or orders of magnitude more use by third parties, ala Unity) is simply a bad idea. I have done i…

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    Comment #20069662

    Our book includes a Pong tutorial. =)

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    Comment #20069656

    Sure, no problem. To be fair, we take all the free stuff we can get, as we are almost entirely community funded and volunteer driven. In terms of straight cash support, Mozilla rec…

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    Comment #20069637

    > Source: have shipped multiple games on multiple custom engines Nice! Which games? We'd certainly welcome more feedback from experienced game devs and engine devs on what they wan…

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    Comment #20069621

    We do suffer from a bit of a dearth of artists/modelers. We recently had one join who is doing a lot of nice work to the editor UI. There's a few of us who have quite a bit of expe…

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    Comment #20069595

    More information on what we mean by that term can be found here: https://book.amethyst.rs/stable/glossary.html If viewed as goals, we aren't quite there yet, but we're working on i…

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    Comment #20067723

    I'm not sure what you mean, I'm afraid. They actively support us by discussing our needs and figuring out how they can best support us. They've each specifically asked to have thei…

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    Comment #20067463

    > What projects currently use Amethyst? I can't find any information on the site about current users. You can find a thread containing links to current projects on our forums: http…

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    Comment #20067434

    > And why are companies like DigitalOcean and Sentry sponsoring a game engine? We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Many companies like DO and Sentry have programs for open-source and/or…