[Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog

[Daniel Stokes]

You're getting some negative responses to the proposed BGE changes on the
blenderartists forums, including several suggestions of forking the project:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?297037-Project-GameBlender-a-radical-solution-involving-the-BGE-as-an-independent-project
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?297023-Future-of-the-BGE

I personally think the proposed BGE changes could be interesting as long as
three things happen:
1. We don't lose existing BGE features
2. We don't lose the ability to publish BGE games
3. We don't lose a focus on performance for BGE games

A tighter integration of the BGE and the rest of Blender could be very
beneficial to the BGE with its limited development resources, but many
people fear losing the engine they have invested time into learning or
developing. Furthermore, I would like to point out that the BGE is at least
on par with the free version of Unity feature wise.

Regards,
Daniel Stokes


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:

> Hi Ton,
>
> sounds great at a first glance ;) I really like the 2.7 targets.
>
> Imho we should also think about dropping WinXP support and 32bit code in
> the
> future. (Maybe for 2.8?)
> This would make life easier for devs as we don't have to care about legacy
> compatibility stuff and can focus on writing neat and fast 64bit code.
> And a major code cleanup might be overdue.
>
> /Jürgen
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: bf-committers-bounces at blender.org
> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at blender.org] Im Auftrag von Ton Roosendaal
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013 15:45
> An: bf-blender developers
> Betreff: [Bf-committers] Blender roadmap article on code blog
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a write-up for projects and focus the next years:
> http://code.blender.org/
>
> Feedback welcome :)
>
> -Ton-
>
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