Hello!

[MisterMage]

I have finally decided to make an account here at Ogre! For the passed week I have been working on my own little Engine which pulls together Ogre3D, Bullet Physics (OgreBullet), MyGUI, RakNet and some other little State/Component Management features that I have made myself. You see, I am currently in College, New England Institute of Technology (NEIT), getting my Bachelors Degree in Video Game Development and I am in my last two quarters; which means Senior Project is starting. To make a long story short, this passed week has been my off week and classes start on Tuesday. Anyway, I have been working purely off of the (Wiki + Google) combo to get things done with getting Ogre set up with all those features, previously stated, implemented; I couldn't be happier. I just thought I would make an account on here because now I am going fully in-depth with RakNet/Rendering/Animation/etc. and getting a simple FPS game up and going and I may need some help.

Not really sure what else to say besides...
My name is Bobby. I am 20 years old (21 in may) currently going to school for my Bachelors Degree in Video Game Development with high hopes of getting a job somewhere close to home and doing what I love to do. Rather than choosing to go with a AAA Game Engine and using it for my senior project, I have taken it upon myself to write my own little Engine and take part in the Open-Source world of programming; I just feel more accomplished that way .

Also, I wanted to thank anyone and everyone who edits the Wiki on here. The tutorials and documentation are outstanding and I didn't have to ask anyone at any point "how do i do this?", I love it.

[zorocke]

Glad to hear i'm not the only student working on a game engine in their spare time.

Sounds like we have similar circumstances.

Are you developing an editor and other tools with your engine?

[MisterMage]

With the 20 week constraint I have on my project I don't think I will be making any tools for the engine. Long term however I can see that happening but again no idea whats going to happen later on

What kind of things were you going, or already, make?

[zorocke]

I am targeting my engine at a very specific project I have in mind. I am working on tool creation, I am currently trying to get my engine to work with Qt so I can start building a scene editor.

I am starting to get bored with the project though, and I am starting to become more eager to start making an actual game... So I may throw in the towel and use a fully featured engine like NeoAxis or the Cry engine soon.

[bstone]

Don't bother then as you might get bored with making the actual game. You'll have to throw the towel in again and buy a fully featured game like Battlefield 3 or Crysis

Jokes aside, any serious game (i.e. super fine-tuned gameplay, very polished art, etc.) will require a lot of effort which will be boring many times a day. Keep that in mind.

[EricB]

Jokes aside, any serious game (i.e. super fine-tuned gameplay, very polished art, etc.) will require a lot of effort which will be boring many times a day. Keep that in mind.

Or boring many times a year.

All worth it in the end.