Qt City Building Game
-
Hello, today I discovered a city-building game developed with Qt that is available on Android, iOS, and PC. According to the update notes, it was developed with Qt 5.15. It’s really nice to see something like this made with Qt, congratulations to the team.
How did you find the game? Why do you think Qt 5.15 was chosen? Wouldn’t Qt 6.8+ be more performant and better? Also, with Qt 6.8+, how would you create such a scrollable and zoomable game screen, and I wonder how long something like that would take?
https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/pico-islands/id1476541055?l=tr
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bitspree.pico.islands
-
Because the game was release before 2020 (you can see that in the ratings/comments of the game) and Qt 6 was release 2021. So the developers where a) too lazy to update to Qt6 OR It is maybe a licensing problem. Qt 5 was much cheaper. I guess they still have that old contract and that is why they probably stay at Qt 5. As you can see there are only 18 comments for that game (even it looks nice!), but that is much too low to have enough customers that pay the Qt 6 commercial license.
-
Because the game was release before 2020 (you can see that in the ratings/comments of the game) and Qt 6 was release 2021. So the developers where a) too lazy to update to Qt6 OR It is maybe a licensing problem. Qt 5 was much cheaper. I guess they still have that old contract and that is why they probably stay at Qt 5. As you can see there are only 18 comments for that game (even it looks nice!), but that is much too low to have enough customers that pay the Qt 6 commercial license.
I'm not a commercial user, but isn't there just one commercial license?! AFAIK are commercial licenses not limited to a specific Qt version?! So I think they can upgrade if they want to... but the last update of the app was some time ago and introduced Qt 5.15.16
-
Today there is only a single pretty expensive license. But in the past, I remember there were other cheaper versions. For example the "Indie Mobile Edition". So a edition only for mobile devices (and i guess only Qt5 only, but I am not 100% sure). I guess they have one of that versions and/or they use a module that isn't available with Qt6 yet (don't forget that some modules are not available with Qt6!) But maybe ask them if you want to know more.
