Quote: "Any word on how this is being received yet?"
Yeah, you can always google it and read the reviews on steam or visit
here.
Quote: "They are up against some pretty strong competition with UE4 being released for free and I have read that Source 2 is going to be released for free too"
There is also Unity, UDK, Source, Leadwerks, Skyline, Torque and do I need to continue because there are many more superior engines that do, however, not directly relate to FPSC or guru. Gameguru covers a niche of hobbyists who are either incapable of using a big-name engine, don't want to work in a team on a project, or don't have the time necessary to work with something like...say UDK.
Quote: "I just wonder if enough people will buy a DX9 engine."
I still find little wrong with DX9 and it has been announced that they'll support DX11 in the future. To further discuss this (if needed), I'd have to ask you wether you actually know what DirectX is and how it relates to an engine...not to be condescending but because I had some annoying experiences where I was discussing this with people who did not really know what DirectX is and assumed its some kinda software that just magically makes your game look better (the heap of gamers that think good graphics boil down to the engine more than the designers is something I could go on about but which isn't on topic.)
Quote: "They didn't make their kickstarter goal initially so it suggested to me that people wern't interested, or were using one of the alternative systems already. "
In my opinion that was mostly due to being way too early (just like the steam release was a little too early) and soddy marketing.
Quote: "I hope they can make some sort of success out of this. I'm waiting for the long-delayed DBPro update that may come as a result of the work being done on GameGuru. "
Well, I assume this relies largely on Lee Bamber and he probably will... What guru does and how its optimized might not be impressive at all concidering contemporary engines but its certainly big as far as dbpro goes.
I'd hate to see DBPro get neglected more than its users feel it is (can't confirm it as I only use them dilettant subproducts
) as their users are the backbone of the old forums here.
-Wolf
"If the mods didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!" - Rick Bamber
