[teamonkey]

> If this doesn't interest you, at least learn Unity and/or Unreal. No more custom game engines. There is a time limit.

I work in the games industry and couldn't disagree with this post more. The above is generic advice you give to someone just starting out and wants to work on games but has no clue where to begin. This person is working on a custom games console which is incredible experience, useful and impressive on so many levels.

You have to use new hardware all the time. You have to relearn a new shader language all the time. You have to re-learn Unity and Unreal all the time, because they are a shifting target (especially Unity). I have shipped games with 6 different games engines on 4 generations of hardware. I've used 3 professionally in the last two years.

The skills you will learn working on this console are the stripped-down core of game development: relevant and everlasting.