Isetta Engine: open-source C++ game engine

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I feel like they got heavy inspiration from unity. There is a lot of terms and functions named exactly like and perform the exact same functionality in unity. And having programmed in both unity and unreal I can say they aren't just generic naming conventions. But I've only briefly read some documentation so they might actually say it was directly inspired by unity. At any rate great job huge undertaking. I'll check it out some more.

Pretty much everything that goes under the name of "game engine" these days is directly inspired by Unity though.

15 or 20 years ago, there was a bigger diversity and more opinions on what "game engine" actually means, but once Unity got really, really popular other engines followed along and became "Unity clones" at least on the surface (e.g. what does the artist workflow look like).

The "unique selling point" of other engines is essentially what small parts of the artist workflow they do better than the "reference implementation" in Unity, or sometimes what things they do more efficiently under the hood.

The engine itself doesn't feel like the interesting part here (nobody will probably ever write another game in it, nor developer it further). It's one of those "what matters is the journey rather than destination" things.

But at least I'm finding the other deliverables from this project fascinating. Especially the blog posts are really good.

The seasoned developers interviews are quite good as well.

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