Unterschreibe ich Dir. Ich selbst werde wahrscheinlich nie wechseln, weil ich nicht auf Geld aus bin, klar ich hätte nix dagegen, is aber kein muss. Aber ich glaube die Tage wo 3DGS Spiele in Zeitschriften neben Build Engine Projekten auftauchten, sind gezählt (z.B. Skaphander). Warum sollten unbekannte Teams mit 3DGS starten? Wenn ich heute auf Enginesuche gehen würde, denke ich nicht, das meine Wahl auf die Acknexengine fallen würde. Bin mal gespannt, wo der 3DGS Zug noch hinsteuern wird.

mfg
Edit: Nicht falsch verstehen, ich liebe 3dgs. Ich sage auch nicht das seine Tage gezählt sind, ich sage nur, damals schien mir das Programm "mächtiger".

Please. If the topic begins in English, then it stays in English. The same is true with German, etc.

I translate:

be optimistic: updates are getting rare because something big improvement is done behind the scene, and good work needs time (similarly to bad work)
but don't forget to make price & feature comparison among engines, and what skills and other software knowledge & ownership are required to start. 3dgs seems to be not a bad choice at all, if you don't want to spend too much money...
but my example is very typical: I just made first an own editor because I found WED not suitable for my purposes.

Thats 100% correct too. The price is fantastic on the other side. But even the Unreal Engine is not impossible for small teams, since UDK was released. Dont know much about it but i heard the license/price must be "ok" for that software.
If u compare price and power of 3dgs its a fair deal, yes.

I rather doubt this is the case, though I would hope it was. I have had a long history with 3DGS (even involved in the beta test a bit) and if there was little activity publicly, there usually was something going on in beta. There hasn't been. And even if there was something going on behind the scenes, it's bad business to ignore your customers and let them sort of fade away, don't you think? Even if they reveal a super-cool new engine and tools, who will be here to witness it? (Yes, I was exaggerating).



As others have pointed out here, because of how outdated the tools are, you need to be a virtual expert to use GameStudio properly (creating your own import/export tools, etc). This being the case, there are many, many FREE engines out there with many more features that make GameStudio look quite outdated. And other engines are not very expensive these days. Compare the pro version of Unity to GameStudio. How about Torque? And what good is a price point (should GameStudio come out ahead) if the product actually is dying?

The long death of gamestudio:

My two target platforms are windows and mobile. For windows I use 3dgs, for mobile I use Mosync, both in C++.


Dwarf Fortess took 2 years to release 2 major updates. Inbetween came no updates at all. But the fanbase was never labelling DF as dead.

I didn't label GameStudio as dead. I asked if there was a future. That's asking, not stating. And the graphic with the tombstones does not tell the story. Since v3, GameStudio's community has been vibrant and active. And Conitec's staff has been involved with its community. This is not so any more. At least, it is not anywhere near the level that it once was. This gives the impression that Conitec is getting ready to move on to other pastures. It may not be the case, but it certainly seems that way.