You'd write the code in something else and then be like

import 3dengine
3dengine.run()

Never underestimate my self-loathing and my desire to write the most unusable piece of shit.

3D engine in LOLCODE or bust

How many games write their own 3D engine anymore

Screams in GIL

I wanted to write software renderer in turtle as a joke sometime ago but I only did a spinning cube https://files.catbox.moe/1mjm2g.py

You know the majority of LLM stacks are in python, right?

We already live in that world, basically.

Python LLM training produces models that are then refined into things that 3D engines plug into to do AI upscaling and framegen, and then different python trained LLM models use more python to interface with MCPs to write more slop extensions and frameworks in/for game engines, and other programs.

Still different python derived LLMs do image/facial/3d object recognition, get plugged into moar python, and then produce models... often for game engines.

Its nearly literally an ouroboros.

And every one of those tools can kill you.

I understand C++ better than what C++ coders say online fr

Much love

Unless you call an stdlib function and suddenly 10,000 call instructions.

That was the point 20 years ago. These days it is pivoting to compile time functional programming

At a conceptual level, it makes 100% sense that companies are moving away from bespoke engines and towards a standardized engine. This is something you see in many different industries. Spending a whole bunch of money and effort when 95% of your requirements are the same as everyone else is a bit silly.

However, you're completely right that there's the same danger as in other industries where the 'boring software infrastructure' gets standardized and outsourced: a niche monopoly able to exploit their position. What tends to happen in the long run is an open source project for that infrastructure run by an NGO with the industry members (in this case AAA game companies) on the board of directors.

It comes down to money. Studios dont want to spend the time and money anymore. People will buy whatever garbage they put out anyway. It can be shitty UE5 at 30fps, people have no standards anymore.

Fun fact, a bunch of proprietary engines were just local alterations based on another licensed engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter_engine

That’s why we always stan on studios like Remedy. They use their own engine, and pretty much everything they produce is stellar IMO.

I wish there was a game dev group like Motion Twin (ie., nonconventional anti-hierarchical organization), who relied and supported open standards only, and kept at least the engine portions of their games open-source.

Luckily games that have functions or features that are not present in UE5 or some other publicly accessible engine, still have to add those features to the engine to make use of them. This applies to lots of games and developers. The art of building an engine still is necessary for many developers, even those using UE5 or Unity. So worst case scenario, they have to switch to an inhouse engine development cycle and spend that much more time and money building an engine that makes them nothing in return on the hope that the engine they make, will save them substantial development the across future titles.

For the free beer?

This feels like that XKCD comic.

"There are 14 competing standards..."

Not really, the role of Rust is type/memory safety, you can still have unoptimized games. Also Rust is more complicated.

Verse, Scratch and GDScript are video game scripts.

Would be a bit weird expecting all those C++ people to use a language that will be invented 27 years after the language they chose to learn?

Yes

Try OO C and you’ll see why C++ is the way it is.

Stroustrop’s first cut of C++ was called “C With Classes.”

Footgunscannons

This is why we should only use Python. :)

So great for programming, with no downsides. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?

I'm a genius, i know.