If you want to make subnautica... save up 10 million dollars (according to the devs), use unity, ???, profit... and prepare to work for the rest of your life to release the game.


This was a modified NS2 engine that was meant to make toy games for you and your friends alla garry's mod.

Originally posted by ShadowsRage:

If you want to make subnautica... save up 10 million dollars (according to the devs), use unity, ???, profit... and prepare to work for the rest of your life to release the game.


This was a modified NS2 engine that was meant to make toy games for you and your friends alla garry's mod.

U know what i mean. I asked about the basic functionality of engine. Not about the animation and graphics of the subnautic quality. It's just about engine.
Their engine allows data functions. It's about whether this engine can repeat these functions.
Please do not need to talk about numbers. Obviously, you have no idea how much it all costs. Please, if I am mistaken - show me the projects released in Steam, in the development of which you participated. And of course I mean not early access because people, at the stage of developing games in the early access, do not imagine what path you need to go to release.
I ask just cuz i know it. And yes, I was thinking of doing something in the same as Garison games-mode, but on this engine. Of course, something simple and casual, which does not require me to perform complex operations in programming, cuz i'm not specialist in the it. I'm really interested in the functionality and capabilities of this project.
I didn't ask community about it :) I hope dev will tell more about functions of their engine here or in the news or maybe new video.

... the 10 million number comes straight from a dev's quote (on twitter I believe). Sure a big part of that went to artwork, but the engine programming and game programming certainly had a lot of work done to them to make the game that we see today (You should still be able to get the alphas of Subnautica on humble bundle to see and compare how much work went into the game).

This engine isn't supported at the moment. The game was put on hold. If you would like to make something similar to your project ideas I would suggest an engine that is supported by a dev team and that has good documentation ie Unity/Godot/Unreal. Those engines would certainly accommodate your needs.

Anyways, you would need source code access to actually do something of the magnitude of Subnautica on this engine. You can program in lua for the game programming aspect of the project, but without engine programming I can hardly see how you will be able to extend this engine to accommodate a project with the scope of a survival game.

Also, it might be worthwhile to invest time in learning some programming if you are a lone game dev... in the end gameplay all comes down to programming and game design (sure artwork is nice, but if it isn't fun to play why bother).

Learn Unity it's not so bad to start with C# and you get more back for your time investment. These little game makers are like roblox...bbt even in roblox you can make some cash. I don't see the point of this one at all.

It's a shame though because it was a nice idea. Have a platform that is easy to use and that allows cocreation of small game projects. Sad to see this languish for so long. The devs really should release the source code of the engine for those that paid so that a small community can maybe continue development (unknown worlds have gone to unity anyways). Until that happens, it will be tic-80 for me and mods for quake/enemy territory lol.