Advice for Hobby/Passion Project
I know there are a TON of these on this SubReddit, but wanted to see if any hobbyist also work in tech and have experience with Unreal and/or Unity.
Back story: Myself and 8 friends all rotate playing FPS/TPS/Survival games together and we were in a party the other night having a discussion about the older shooters and how much nostalgia we had from them. Along that discussion we were all talking about the simple features and rich map design missing passion from AAA studios who make these games and how most of the developers on modern projects don't even play their own games (this was a rant I know there's more going on behind the scenes). On that same topic, everyone had an idea for a game that was collaborative. That had me thinking that I had always wanted to make a game and I'm getting older (31) and one day I'm gonna look back and wish I would've at least attempted it. I decided I was going to just make a game as a hobby, no pressure, no attempt at making money, just something for us to all play together for good times.
A week ago, I started out on Unity with some C#/C+/Python knowledge and I built a very, very basic game with free assets. Saturday I started looking into Unreal Engine and the C++ is a different beast but the Blueprint Visual Scripting is very tempting to use from here out. I almost feel like I'm making a Visio diagram for a network.
I started out with the sole purpose of giving myself a week in each engine and doing research before deciding which one is best for my use case. I've noticed the Marketplace in Unity is FAR superb to the Fab Marketplace. On the reverse, creating a Map in Unreal is superior to ProBuilder.
Any Sysadmin/CyA/NEng have any insights on which game engine you felt like you gelled with better? We tend to look at things from a logic perspective, and I may be Naive in feeling like the Blueprint Visual Scripting is easier to pickup on.