It's so exciting!

Until JCL said that they are working on a commercial gamestudio project, I've believed they were working on a new WED, so I'm glad they really do.

I thought these are two different topics...

Hopefully it's possible to integrate the new WED directly into a game for live editing. *dreams*

I am using Unity for my next project due to the need for a web player. I wouldn't say 3DGS is dead though, it does many things right. But it also lacks in key areas(multiplatform, art pipeline, performance). As Frank said, if your planning on doing something more basic for windows use 3DGS. I do miss Lite-C with Unity too, I still think 3DGS had the best scripting system.

i wonder if there will be a gamestudio port for the upcoming nvidia ARM cpus and ARM windows. looks like platform independence will become more and more important.

3DGS is just great in its features, but the weak point is

WED:
- very difficult to use when placing many models, no workflow, not user friendly at all
- todays levels are levels in which you use models only, so there must be some easy handling for models, appliing predefined materials and shaders and easy lighting system, a preview system (todays pcs are fast enough)
- everything what is used in a game has to be insertable like sounds, scripts, menu system, terrain editor, etc

so everything depends on the access you have got to the engine. The engine itself is not the problem at all, I guess

so WED is the key

Well my bet is that before that will happen they'll switch to OpenGL in order to get additional plattforms. As I see it that should be way more easy to do than writing (and maintaining) another branch without x86 from the ground up...

Yeah, that's maybe the most important thing: Making it runable on other plattforms. Especialy mobile phones.

I want a Nintendo DS port.

3DS port, please.