You couldn't pay me to write a game in C today. Our expectations of what games have to be are sky high today. You cant get away with the productivity lost writing in c, maybe c++ since its supported by a number of engines. But, im personally not aware of a single engine that uses C. I tried my hand at writing a game without an engine, and it was a hot mess. Writing low level code to make a button with text, no thanks...been there done that, in my game, you could bump into trees and get stuck...not very fun in my opinion, and thats after a few months of writing code.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Animal Well was written in C without an engine and it was a decent hit (for an indie). Although that's definitely an exception, perhaps very similar to the RollerCoaster Tycoon example

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Wikipedia says cpp

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Animal Well

Animal Well was the shit.