Comment by LarsDu88
16 days ago
Oh I'm sure it very enjoyable. This is more on the question of "could it have been a better game with better reviews" if more time had been spent on gamedev versus spacetimedb?
I suspect the answer to that is probably nuanced. Spacetime probably gets more VC funding based on the DB rather than being a game. Trying to make a successful indie MMORPG without pre-existing IP is going to be an uphill battle in 2026 with or without fancy backend innovations.
Even the author said:
> Of course, there’s not a lot of studios building MMORPGs right now, and the ones that are building any kind of multiplayer games really tend to prefer their own in-house backends
So which one is it, most mmorpgs build their own backends or clockwork shouldn't have wasted their time building their own backend?
They had to build it anyway, might as well sell it. Similar to Epic and their Unreal engine, right?
That was indeed our reasoning. SpacetimeDB is largely prerequisite for the game we had to build.