Ah ... well are there any Blitz games you like? I'll avoid any of the really killers apps such as Tribes or Marble Blast and stick to 3rd party indies. Personally, Orbz is one of my favorite games of all time. Then you've got the popular Wildlife Tycoon, Tube Twist, and Rocket Bowl ... none of which are FPS's. Another really different title as far as going above and beyond the engine's stock abilities is Determinance with it's dynamic mouse/arm sword swing mechanics.
From the art point of view ... yeah I agree it's not as easy and dynamic but that's because it's freed up a lot of work on the programming end and for good reason because you can't be scripting everything such as nodes etc... it's better on large projects to use WYSIWYG tools like a 3DS Max or whatever you use so you aren't constantly checking for code errors and recompiling. It's just plain more efficient to unload as much as you can from the codebase change side of things since the tiniest errors can ruin the whole project that way. If one asset exports wrong no big deal ... if one module gets compiled wrong then the game doesn't work on many more levels.
The only things that only Mark can do are change the language itself, since everything else is a module or optional.
Perhaps if he just released the platform layer to us!
From the art point of view ... yeah I agree it's not as easy and dynamic but that's because it's freed up a lot of work on the programming end and for good reason because you can't be scripting everything such as nodes etc... it's better on large projects to use WYSIWYG tools like a 3DS Max or whatever you use so you aren't constantly checking for code errors and recompiling. It's just plain more efficient to unload as much as you can from the codebase change side of things since the tiniest errors can ruin the whole project that way. If one asset exports wrong no big deal ... if one module gets compiled wrong then the game doesn't work on many more levels.
The only things that only Mark can do are change the language itself, since everything else is a module or optional.
Perhaps if he just released the platform layer to us!