[bitwize]

Creating a game with an engine is like designing a character with a pixel dollbase. You can get something out quickly, skipping a few steps because they're done for you, but you have to live with whatever choices were made by the creator of the engine/dollbase. Those choices can constrain your execution and to some extent, your imagination.

[krapp]

>Those choices can constrain your execution and to some extent, your imagination.

In theory, yes. In practice 99.9% of the games developers want to make are feasible with an off the shelf engine.

[charcircuit]

While true, people overestimate how limiting it actually is. It's like wanting to make your own kernel for your application instead of using an off the shelf one like Linux. Sure you might be able to eek out some extra performance but there are so many upsides in reusing Linux.