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Comment by adamnemecek | Hacker News Reader

I know that rg3d was on the front page yesterday, but in case someone missed it, here's rg3d, another Rust engine https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d

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They seem to share the same goals and philosophy, and it looks like the authors have complementary skills: mrDimas' technical achievements are super impressive (rg3d already has a scene editor, its own UI kit and a working example game!!), while _cart's ability to create hype and foster a large community in no time is just stunning. I'd love to see those two join efforts somehow.

Idk if community skills really matter.

It's harder to get users without, and sponsorship/funding is probably out reach.

There are a lot of technically good projects which fail because of lack of marketing, and a lot of well-marketed project that are too shallow to succeed. Having both is an incredible asset.

That's why I would be extremely excited if they teamed up.

Which good projects failed due to lack of marketing?

As an outsider to game dev, what sort of aspects do people compare game engines by?

Man there are just millions of things

* what platforms can the engine target (pc, mac, linux, consoles, web, mobile, etc

* does it use a typical oop approach with all your stuff deriving from entity? or an ecs? the latter can perform better but is more complex to work with usually

* how easy is it to use? does it have a graphic editor and asset manager? an easy scripting language? decent lighting system built in?

* how well does it perform

* how customizeable is it

* can you edit things while the game is running for quick iteration?

Game enginity :-). But fundamentally same as everything else, features, platform support, maturity, API, performance etc.

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