It's fucking nuts. Ever since I was in the fifth grade I wanted to re-invent the wheel and build a game engine from scratch. There are so many moving parts and disciplines involved. Eventually I came around and figured it's not worth it (mostly due to the initial libre release of Godot). Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture is an incredibly detailed high level overview of what is involved in making a modern game engine (by 2009 standards, but still largely applicable).
This is kind of where I've landed. Years ago I fucked around with XNA - at the time I didn't understand the difference between an engine and a framework, and I wasted so much time just building shit to accomplish other shit so that I could eventually design game. I actually want to make -game-, not game engine.
It's fucking nuts. Ever since I was in the fifth grade I wanted to re-invent the wheel and build a game engine from scratch. There are so many moving parts and disciplines involved. Eventually I came around and figured it's not worth it (mostly due to the initial libre release of Godot). Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture is an incredibly detailed high level overview of what is involved in making a modern game engine (by 2009 standards, but still largely applicable).
This is kind of where I've landed. Years ago I fucked around with XNA - at the time I didn't understand the difference between an engine and a framework, and I wasted so much time just building shit to accomplish other shit so that I could eventually design game. I actually want to make -game-, not game engine.