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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many many hours is a massive understatement.

Thousands and thousands of hours is more appropriate

[–] terny@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how you could change the engine without rewriting the entire thing basically from scratch.

[–] mee@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It really depends on how modular their codebase is. The Doom 1/2 modern ports they did in 2019 use Unity. But it's actually still the original Doom underneath and just using Unity for input and output to make porting easier