I am only stopping by to say hi and a few words!
I started toying with panda3D about a year ago and really enjoyed it. Due to a lack of time I stopped developing my game for a long time.
Now, since this project of mine is important to me, I wanted to continue working on it. For a long time, I wondered if I should continue my game on panda3D or move to something else. Why? We must admit that, even tough active, the community is small. The risk of a small community is that if too much of the engine developers stop working on it, the project could shutdown and die. This is still what scares me the most.
So I started looking for other game engine.
For a while I tried making my own in C with OpenGL and GLFW, but I could see no end in front of me, and having only so much time available to work on my project, it got me discouraged. Also, I want to make a game, not an engine.
Engine like Unity 3d, being GUIed programmed don’t interest me. I toyed with Irrlicht, but the engine seemed less flexible. It’s wider platform compatibility was one of the thing that made my try it, but I didn’t really enjoy it. Moreover, the community is about the same size as panda3D.
In my heart I wanted to keep working with panda3D, but I feared that it could die after a few year, leaving me empty handed and having to start looking for a new game engine. But then I realized that it is probably the main problem that keep people away from it. After pondering about what I should do for a long time, I remember how satisfying was making my game with panda3D. I tough “but it’s not as cross platform than other engine” and remembered how I hate playing game on a tablet, so this is no big deal .
All that to say that I am seriously considering adding myself to the pool of panda3D user.
Am I missing something to consider? Is panda3D still an up to date game engine? Are my fear real or not?
I am aware that I am not the first one to ask these thing, but now that we are in 2016, what are your opinion on the subject.
One last thing: Who have control of the web page? Some quick updating would make it so much more appealing that the current one… Any picture from tobspr’s youtube channel would do (his work is amazing). It’s a job of 5 minutes and I am certain that it would greatly help.
Many thanks to you all, keep the good work and I am eager to share with you whatever will come out of it!
PS: excuse my poor english grammar, I’m not a native speaker/writer.