#oh boy you can buy A* algo in the store! only 28 dollars

[agapi-kalyptei]

youtubers are very unknowledgeable

Some of them anyway. Following the Unity per-install fee drama, one youtuber released "alternatives to Unity" video and I thought, sweet, something to broaden my horizons with.

After half a day of reading and downloading, I'm convinced the person has very close to zero idea what they're talking about besides regurgitating marketing spiels from their websites. "I've long liked..." okay no stop. You like the idea of this engine based on a few shiny buttons. You've downloaded the editor and made hello world and thought 'yeah this looks usable'.

I'm playing with one of the engines, Cocoa3D, and it's.... oh boy. Unpolished.

yes, both enemies and levels are declared in CSV in this sample project (that's usually _paid_ - free right this moment because oh boy, someone is trying to capitalize on the "success" of Unity this week).

Sound volumes are all over the place, I think the only reason why I cannot find freesound.org in the metadata of these samples is because they scrubbed them

Ugh, I forgot how exploitative software development is. I'm used to working with well-paid engineers (even if not many of them are top-percentile super mega cool developers), but seeing this reminds me how so many developers just possess no distinguishing skills or passion (or salary). Not saying it's their fault, but I can see when a company hires an intern to do a job without much guidance.

I am getting so many war flashbacks to getting an outsourced PHP developer from Argentina who spent 3 months writing unusable code (didn't know what primary keys are, etc). Later someone from their company admitted that they actually didn't have any PHP developers so they just "grabbed the first person on the street they could find".