Didn't you know? Historical accuracy no longer matters so long as you make it diverse.

From what I've heard, the games industry is akin to slavery. Most people apparently burn out after 5 years, or 10 max just from the horrible hours and [relatively] poor pay/benefits/etc (though it's still probably better than mine, so there's that). I think there's a difference between loving the work that you do versus loving the industry though.

Dude, I'm just poking fun.

Actually that's misinformation. They only have to censor the GERMAN version of the game. Previous COD games even had Nazi flags. You know EXACTLY why they censored this version. Because "omg white supremacists will be emboldened!" There's literally no other difference in situation between the previous WW2 CoD game and this one.

It's pretty sad that millennials are so butthurt they can't even let us enjoy classics like Mel Brooks. "How dare a Jew make fun of Hitler!"

Also, re: flags censored for multiplayer. Germany won't let flags in single player either. So that logic completely collapses. So you're either intentionally trying to mislead us, or you listened to your bosses without bothering to analyze it critically.

Fair enough. We probably just had a miscommunication.

That's a great website to lose faith in humanity. Twitter is like 100x that though.

Check out Joe Rogan's podcast. It's like one of the top 5 YT channels out there. He just has experts come on and talk. It's like TV used to be. Actual experts talking about poverty, drugs, Jay Leno talking about the history of comedy, and more.

Well, that's an understandable reaction to the way gamers were maligned. But best not to get stuck on that. Now we know the media and most politicians on any side like to use gaming for a Scapegoat for whatever social ills they perceive.

Best focus on keep on making and playing games and getting our message past the inevitable censorship imposed upon us from all sides.

I'll never forget John Oliver doing a piece on "internet bullying" and completely ignoring that women bully and framing it as a "men with tiny penises vs poor innocent cute womyns" hit piece.

People get too worked up over nothing, on both sides of the debate.

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The last version of Allegro I used was 4.2, and that was only because there were others working on the same project. If I can't work in a team, I usually have little motivation to work on a project.

After Allegro, I started Unity and had to learn C# for it. At the time, they had a Javascript hybrid they called Unityscript, which they are deprecating, which helped some of the transition to their engine easier if you didn't know C#. It was a love-hate relationship, but I found that coding games was at least pleasant.

From there, we attempted to write a VR game in Unity but Unity had virtually no VR support then, and everything was jittery/laggy to the point of being unusable. So our small team (of 3 or 4; I forget) reinvented the game under Unreal using C++ (since we all came from a C++ background).

Unreal's blueprints were kind of a weird combination for us. It was certainly easy to switch back and forth between "hook up this wire to that node" and see instant results without having to recompile, but when most of the game assets were these binary blueprints, it made collaboration nearly impossible. So we had to shift almost entirely away from blueprints and code all the functionality in source. Each recompile took no fewer than 4 minutes, since it had to include the entire Unreal Engine's sources as well.

If something were to compel me to learn and work with Allegro 5, it would have to be a project that has more than a few members each working on something. Nothing helps me out more than "Hey... how would I do this thing?" and get instant feedback, rather than ask a forum some vague question in a way that doesn't give away too much IP.

I actually liked the Monday threads, especially when Allegro 5 was just coming out and we were using it to learn the new interface/API. But it fizzled and died. I just didn't have the motivation to learn it if I would be the "lone person working on it."

Agreed. It was a little different at first, being used to Allegro 4, but after a few questions in these forums I became more comfortable with it. For a few functions which I really missed in Allegro 4, I simply made up my own with Allegro 5 which called Allegro 5 functions properly. Like a Wait_For_Keypress() or whatever, I just made my own.

I was always fairly impressed With Allegro 5... except with the sound. I think some people forgot that Allegro was originally made to make things easier, and Allegro 4 done that in spades. But there are aspects of the sound system in Allegro 5 that drive me up the wall. In Allegro 4, I could easily vary the pitch on the fly. In Allegro 5, nope. I have been told a few times how to accomplish this, but it feels like a lot of hoops to jump through for what used to be readily available in Allegro 4. And the lack of a default GUI, which is minor but it is a thing. Usually newer versions improve a library, not take away from it.

Otherwise, I prefer Allegro 5 for the most part... when I use Allegro anyhow, which I have done for all my projects up until recently. Trying some new things out now (sadly). But then again, I haven't been coding much anymore, all the ideas have been taken it seems and my enthusiasm is waning (age perhaps? It sucks).

I honestly haven't done anything with sound so maybe it's got some issues. I did try (and give up) like twice to do an audio generator and gave up out of frustration.

I'm working in a game engine now. Does it count?

You should back. Both Allegro.pas and Mingro are still "alpha" because they're not complete but they're quite stable with Free Pascal compiler.