On: I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust,...

[tapirl]

Which games are built with it mow?

[Geste → tapirl]

You don't get it. Building a game engine and building games are two separate hobbies. It would be like gardening and cooking. You may like both, or just one, or none.

[tapirl → Geste]

2024: 17 new Rust game engines created, 3 new games made. :D

[TillE → Geste]

Yeah but when you make a game, you have a game. Something you can share.

When you make yet another toy game engine, you've hopefully learned a lot, but what you have is a lot of dead code.

[SunlitCat → TillE]

Like with the gardening and cooking example above!

You might be able to build a perfectly wonderful garden, but that doesn't mean you can use the vegetables you carefully cultivated in any meaningful way in your kitchen to cook a healthy and delicious meal if you can't cook at all (but you can still share the vegetables with your neighbors who might share their cooking with you)! :)

[johnnyanmac → TillE]

Learned a lot that gets you a paid position at an engine company that makes a lot more than 99.99% of indie games (probably makes more than a gameplay programmer too). "When in a gold rush, sell shovels".