What exactly make you think I don’t understand the process of creating a “serious game”!?
When I saw your game I judged it on looks, if you’ve worked in big games you’ll know there are many people who could create better models, animations etc. Not trying to insult you I just brought up your game as an example, not many could create what you created but if they for example would be allowed to mod your game the game would end up looking much better. There’s great talent out there, the reason blender games don’t look good, don’t have any interesting stories or why there hardly are any blender games at all is because those talented people aren’t going to spend years learning how to program their game.
Either generalize, and go and make flappy bird, minecraft etc. or specialize and go into industry in a big company
I assume if you are here, more or less you want to generalize, you could not do this without learning to program.
I’m not a game maker, I don’t create the stuff I create because I want to create some game, I do it because I see the value in the thing itself. That said it would be cool to see a model run around and do stuff in a game or in any other medium, that is why I’m at this forum at all. Because I like thinking about it, but I’m never going to be motivated enough to sit down for hours and learn how to create a health bar or all the other stuff that you see in games.
The last time I visited this forum was months ago, I’m not a regular visitor, I jump in every now and then to lecture programmers on the benefits of game kits. Surely you must be able to see how it would benefit animators, sculptors and other artists to have game presets to modify. You would see a lot of better looking games with cutscenes, interesting characters, HUDS etc.
The blender game engine is more or less dead, nobody is using it except 50 or so people on this forum. To make “amateurs” interested in it you’ll have to make it easy to use, it will never be an alternative to unreal, unity or other such game engines but at least people will be using it. Right now it’s only used by programmers, if there are any artists creating games with it do correct me because I’m not seeing it. I made another thread yesterday about advanced cameras, even just camera presets would be useful.
Just pointing out the obvious guys, hopefully when they redesign the logic bricks they’ll always have this at the back of their mind. Because if the basic features won’t be there after it’s redesigned, the game engine will never be taken seriously by artists, only by programmers who enjoy creating things from scratch that often end up looking…not too pretty.