once again thinking about how people say stuff like "make your own engine if you never wanna ship a game"

in one week working part time i created a 3D tilemap engine with chunking, texture atlasing, camera rotation controls and mouse picking targets without gpu readback

meanwhile we've been working on a content update for kitsune tails since august. most of that time was spent on game design, art, maps, and playtesting, not even any new code until february, and it's still not done

making a custom engine just for the game you're making is not the time consuming part. making the actual game *is*