[Fred27]

As a primarily C# developer who has done some game engine work, I recently gave Godot a go for licensing reasons. Apart from some quirkiness I'm fairly impressed. Much nicer C# support compared to Unity. I've done a fair bit of Unreal C++ but to be honest unless you really need the performance that's just too much hard work.

Having said that getting the code working properly with a nice 3D UI is my priority, not having a slick game with some code doing some mundane stuff in the background.

[rustyhancock]

I can't comment on Godot or Unity which both use primarily C#.

Unreal engine which uses C++ primarily, has the problem that it's a humongous mostly legacy code macro heavy system .

If anything being proficient in C++ before you start is harmful because of the puckering of orifices when you hear about it's mostly quirky powerful macros all the way down.

[AppleBananaPie]

Never worked with it myself but I've always heard the people who do describe it as Unreal c++ because to them it's completely different than regular c++ and this must be one of the reasons why

[PacificSpecific]

That's pretty much correct. I kind of have to switch to "unreal c++" context whenever I'm working in it. They have their own standard library etc

[rustyhancock]

Don't forget if you make the editor access a nullptr it'll probably crash and take out any unsaved changes to blueprints!

[Fred27]

I agree. I came to Unreal with only a basic level of C++. Having Unreal handle memory management for you was useful, but I can imagine the chaos an Unreal-only C++ developer might cause when unleashed on another C++ codebase.

[pjmlp]

Godot uses C++, and even though there is a C# version, most folks either use GDScript, or GDextension with C++, Rust.

[MattCruikshank]

I don't want to design anything in any UI.

I want to use a game engine as a library.

I'm curious, as a primarily C# developer, how do you feel about Godot, in this respect?

[thegrim33]

It's 100% completely usable for that purpose. To the point where I'm internally using Godot as a backend for my engine, using it for rendering/system events.

It's also really good for a hybrid setup where you use their editor to design scenes, and then you can load/instantiate the scenes at runtime how/when you want. Or, just programmatically creates scenes yourself from code. You can really do whatever you want.

[mzhaase]

You can do everything from C#, rider launches the player only for debugging if you want. The only thing you probably do want to use the UI for is for... building UIs.

[enbugger]

> I don't want to design anything in any UI.

I had the same need and found Raylib_cs suit very well for that

[ivm]

Probably MonoGame is the best option for your case then