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The thing is, that the choice of the tool is not the first thing you think about, when designing a game.
Creating the idea comes first.
Based on this idea you choose your tool(s)
So i can imagine that game devs are just asking the question to be a bit more safe, that if problems appear, they can get helped or not. At the end of the day it's supposed to get your stuff out the door.
Saying that, i'm probably doing it the wrong way around lol.
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instead of becoming an expert on every tool in existence it makes sense to go to someone with that experience and just ask them for their advice to get you started vastly faster
also though... with modern websites they don't even list features anymore. it's some weird marketing scroll page that says absolutely nothing
and similarly largely the people at these places buy into marketing so it says nothing about tool capabilities 🤷 -
It's a question about time investment, gains and abilities of the tool. They simply ask wrong questions because people are not teached how to ask correct ones. People are not stupid just education is broken. We don't teach how to ask questions and it is global problem of education that only teach how to give correct answers.
Who the fuck needs answers if you can't ask correct questions. That's also why AI is booming because it's answering general things to stupid questions.
Why do I see so many developers in the game community asking if a <insert tool> is usable for making a game? (I see it a bit here too for language and framework suggestions.)
Then I started thinking that these people either don't know what they want to do or they don't research the tools to find out what the capabilities are. Yes a certain percentage don't have a clue and are asking out of complete nativity.
However, as a developer I have always looked into features I think I need and base decisions on that. Often times spending a couple of days to play with the tool. Learn by doing.
Then I got a bit philosophical. Are the people asking these questions because their value system is based upon collectivism rather than merit? They will be in for a rude awakening when they cannot finish a project on time or at all when a feature is not there.
I get it on some level though. Sometimes we gotta know if something is complete shit.
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