Comment by pjmlp
5 hours ago
Thing is, FPS don't make fun games, what makes games fun is a great design, delivered in a way that overall performance doesn't hinder the experience.
That is why games like Minecraft, Roblox, Celeste, Balantro make it big. None of them would have happened if the creators followed the advice 100% C coding (or C++ for that matter) was the only way, and yet their design is what made them shine.
You're not wrong. But consider a different lens:
Celeste isn't a game that would need to worry about performance in 2018. It's 2d sprites with box collisions and relatively minimal particle effects. Your toaster can run Celeste.
But a game like Factorio with heavy simulations and complex interactions and pathing absolutely needs to consider performance to pull off a seemless experience.
Those are the kinds of games I'd hope engines like Bevy could enable farther down the line. Design is still key, but some game types are a larger technical challenge than others.