The game industry is very similar. I got Skyrim Complete for $13. >100 hours of gameplay for $13. Nobody can compete with that.

The relatively few games that get released by indies are basically kids in college before they get "real jobs" and they realize how insanely little money indie games actually make. Go ahead and see how many hundreds of indie games you've seen have a developer with... one game. They never make another because it was a complete waste for their effort.

Basically, if you want to make a game you either have to be super-duper lucky, or, you do it solely because you love it (even if nobody plays it / never breaks financially even).

Heck, Twitch is the same. I see people streaming every day and they have... 15 viewers. Twitch is full. All that effort and literally nothing to show for it (unless they really enjoy streaming to 5-15 viewers--but never profitful).

YouTube is slightly different because everything is in videos so if you find something cool, people will watch it whereas Twitch is a 24/7 stream of non-stop content. e.g. Moonmoon streams 8-12 hours a day... literally more content than you can actually watch in a day. But almost every niche has been filled on YouTube. People talk about elevators? Full. People who talk about airplanes? Full. People who talk about Turbine engines for airplanes? Full. People who talk about screws, nuts, and bolts? Full.

Talking Allegro... What do you think, how much would an IAP module help popularize the library?

More people talking about/promoting Allegro would be great to see. As a 39yo Construction worker who took up C programming as a hobby last Easter, I can honestly say to you devs; this would be much more popular if people could find it before SDL etc.

I've tried heaps of other APIs, game related and other. But I always come back to Allegro. I even make general purpose gui shit with allegro. The snake case is so fucking great if that's how you want to style the rest of your code (I hate mixing camel and snake) and the functions are so well named and documented.

But very few will find this...

And it doesn't help that 95% of all discussions here are politics or gender.

Thanks again.

Edit: Also, I know you're all aware of this, but whenever you click on the sub-forum "Game Design & Concepts" you're met with an empty list, even though there's thousands of topics in there... Apparently. Most people checking out this API for the first time would think this shit is dead.

I'd start there.

Where is the official site?

Interesting.. I don't understand why the main site and this forum are so drab and unfitting. This is a continuation of an Atari ST graphics API, yeah? Where's the neon? 80s arcade aesthetic? Any visual cues towards the 2d intention and roots of this library?

I guess this is why Software companies employ marketing people..

I know this is off topic but the other thread was locked... too soon. I just saw an ad for TikTok. If the government is trying to block or ban it, why are they advertising? And I don't remember ads previously, did someone buy them out?

Yes, I understand now that Unity has kind of killed interest for these libraries. People usually approach this from a perspective of wanting to make a game, not wanting to learn how to program games.

I'm just kinda.. Being a nerd for a while, because I wanted to be a hacker when I was 14. So this library is great for me. And so is C. Why use anything else? bait :p

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I know I look at all this from a total noob perspective, but everything about C is just beautiful and I have no idea why any of you want to use Javascript or Rust or whatever.

Looking in as an outsider, the entire IT industry looks very chaotic. I'm glad you all make so much dough.

Programming languages are just tools. You should use whatever tool best suits the job at hand.

Example: I used to adore C++, so I'd write all of my little games and programs in it. But then I got fed-up with the tedious porting process (Linux -> Windows), so I switched to JS. Everyone already has a browser, so the idea of writing code that my friends and family can run without needing to downloading binaries is pretty sweet. Is JS as fast and as versatile as C or C++? Absolutely not. But for my needs, it gets the job done.

If you want a hilt, you need to add a couple pluses on their.

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I liked it. It's a strange robot.

You used Blender to model and bones to move. How did you manage to export all that to your game?

That vlog is awesome. So fascinating to watch!