John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

Jonathan Blow is the world’s most successful hobbyist programmer. His whole thing is doing projects from scratch. Every game he made could be done in Unity with far less effort.

Most opinions of this man exists in a vacuum space isolated from the real world software industry. Building an OS from scratch is one of those examples.

It’s never seems like there’s a significant reason behind them other than………”I made dat :P”

As an outsider...his games just look and feel different. They feel like bones-deep art, in a way that even the best of the best games (say, Hades) don't. Since Blow's games are puzzle games they're not even my favorite games! But the effort spent on making them exactly the way he wants them pays off.

I don't think unity was as polished when braid came out in ~2008 that can also easily rewind time on low end Xbox hardware. The witness maybe in unreal? But there are some wild things there I've never seen an unreal game do that the witness does do

It is genuinely ridiculous to say that the witness could “have been made in Unity with far less effort”. It’s easy to forget that people on this and ever forum love to just say stuff for the sake of having said something until you encounter a topic with which you are extremely familiar.

He got the right to be acknowledged by his peers for the work he has made at GDC, and anyone can make games with Unity, just like everyone can make a novel with Word, now making one without pre made tooling, that is a skill on itself.

Why is such a meme among gamers about Unity and Unreal based games?

Exactly because so many make so little effort it is clear where the game is coming from.

If he is selling his games, is he a hobbyist?