Jacques
OmarReminder that availability & porting of any open-source engine to consoles is only less evident because consoles manufacturers decided their _API_ was sacred & unique & under NDA. First console manufacturer who opens up will see 100+ custom engines avail within a month.
David Amador@ocornut there are a few that we have to request access by proving we're a console dev, like SDL etc, but API opening up would be awesome for opening up all of these engines to public.
Alexey Gulev
Alex@agulev @ocornut @defold
It's really only hard because companies decide that it's hard. Or in some cases maybe also because of third party NDAs or technologies that a company can't open up by themselves. But ultimately it still is driven by the people companies in the first place.
I mean ... I know that it's difficult but I am also not a fan of stating these things like it's an unmoveable law of nature or something. Companies decide to make things closed and they can also change it.
It's really only hard because companies decide that it's hard. Or in some cases maybe also because of third party NDAs or technologies that a company can't open up by themselves. But ultimately it still is driven by the people companies in the first place.
I mean ... I know that it's difficult but I am also not a fan of stating these things like it's an unmoveable law of nature or something. Companies decide to make things closed and they can also change it.
Erik MoellerOne more reason the #SteamDeck is so important as a way to open up the whole space.
ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon@ocornut luckily most game consoles have been opened for homebrew development
Rusty Moyher@ocornut Some of the Xbox GDK is open source now on GitHub. (I think just the “GDKX” graphics part is under NDA). And SDL now supports GDK. Maybe other framework/engines too.
Shadow Rose has moved@ocornut Technically, I think that would have been Atari for the VCS, but they couldn’t seem to support their own system.
topi@ocornut Welcome to Steam Deck, I guess...
Ms Ngo@ocornut technically the AppleTV is a console with an open API. To bolster your point, I do think there are a ton of open source game engines that support it, too.
Jay Wren ☯️♌️☢️☣️🚯🚭🆙🆖@ocornut this already exists. it is called steamdeck