What's going on with GameStudio? Is it slowly dying? Where are the beta updates that I am used to seeing? Where are the forecast updates that I am used to seeing updated?

Please not again... btw your site seems to be dead too...

when there is no more room in hell...3dgs will walk the earth

Yep. My site is dead. I've moved on. But that has nothing to do with my original question.

To answer your question. Quoting from an email of a German developer studio`s CEO to me:

It`s the development speed of the engine, the Windows-only thing and the high effort you have to invest to make a great game that makes the Acknex Engine increasingly uninteresting for serious game programming.

Just show them SüperCan and they will shut the fuck up (personal experience).

Of course there are several reasons to move on with unity.
I´ll use them both, because both of them have their strengths and weaknesses.

No. What I was talking about (and I am sure many here understand) is that GameStudio has been around for a long, long time. And I've been involved with GameStudio for a long, long time as well (all the way back to v3). In all those years, GameStudio has always had a wonderfully constant progress of updates. The beta forum was usually quite busy. The Forecast and Beta links often contained fairly frequently updates.

But now? Silence.

Not completely. But instead of a roar of activity, there is a whisper that is barely audible.

Look at the forecast page for the New Wed. It's been sitting at 50% for how long now? The RPG template has been at 30% for how long?

Look at the beta page. What do you see? v8.3 was released on October 15th. The next beta was released February 14th. That's FOUR MONTHS! And that was only to go from v8.3 to v8.31!

I am concerned about this incredible slow-down to GameStudio development. That's all. I love the engine. Love what can be done with it and have used it for a long time. But it seems like the developers have either lost interest or are moving on to something else.

Dagobert. Maybe.


Most people don`t want to use an engine with unknown future. Problem is that Conitec and JCL don`t communicate anything about future developments.
"We are working on a new WED" "We are working on an Android port". But once you ask any detailed questions there`s complete silence. Not even any answer.

The game engine market`s low budget sector (Unity,Torque,C4) is developing fast at the moment. Gamers want to see great graphics and stuff. And to deliver that you need to have an efficient workflow and good tools. The easier artistic workflow is the main reason for me to seriously think about Unity on the long run.
And I`m really the last one who likes to go that way.

Sure. I completely understand this.

WED and MED are old. Very old. I remember when Conitec licensed some old Quake model editer (QED, was it?) and made it into MED. Well, frankly, it hasn't really changed all that much. And WED might have been great in the days of WorldCraft (Half-Life's editor) when BSP engines were all the rage, but now?

That`s the question, yes.