My point is, engines are fine.
Even though I like my jam games hand-rolled C or JS with assets made in paint (or laid out in text!) it’s a matter of taste. Even unity, which I could shit on at length, is fine.
Running around hosting purity tests about engines, or AI, only hurts creators who are just trying to make something by whatever means are available to them.
It’s why I don’t use engines!
I couldn’t imagine using an engine for a jam game and getting what I want out of the jam.
But I can respect that decision, because for some folks it’s the vision, for others it’s the marketing, for some it’s making the assets.
There are a lot of pieces that go into making something that stands out.
It’s cute and these little jam games are important but pretending they’re the same as what studios do is fairly delusional.
I have dire news for you, itch.io is hosted in the cloud! In a data center! The horror!
This is not where it is. It’s when the next person really does have a great idea, and doesn’t need to beg a publisher or spend thousands of hours honing an unrelated skill like blender to build a prototype.
I have solar panels on my roof, why don’t you?
The answer is to disengage yourself, and to teach your children AND OTHERS to disengage from social media.
Social media is harmful, advertising is harmful, drugs are harmful, gambling is harmful. This is a question of societal level harm and is is a problem for individual counties, nations, and states to address by the creation and enforcement of law, and for individuals to address by collectively shaming participants.
I also don’t believe in intellectual property.
I think there are legal tools which people can employ lawyers against in an attempt to hurt each other.
Indies don’t have access to those legal tools in the first place, so if anything, ‘It can’t be our intellectual property’ is likely a useful defense against large-scale aggressors, but ianal.