I may have misunderstood your comment.

If you’re asking what the downsides of not using “feeling” language is, from my perspective, when a comment is just stated, the statement comes across as a statement of fact, rather than someone’s understanding.

Someone’s understanding of something is not always fact and by lowering the statement from a ‘fact’ to an ‘understanding’ it lowers the temperature when information counter to someone’s understanding is presented.

My experience, is that it also helps start a dialogue. Example:

Person 1: “My understanding is that the government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “I hadn’t heard that. My understanding is that homes are heated with building heaters. Can you provide me with a source to look more into the lasers you described?”

Versus: Person 1: “The government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “You’re wrong. Homes are heated with internal heaters. Where did you hear that?”

From my perspective, the first exchange is more amicable and the second more contentious and more likely to lead to insults rather than a constructive conversation.

Edit: spelling.

Nothing. They’re a suggestion. I’ll work on restating the list to better reflect that. Appreciate the feedback.

Probably should be reworded as a suggestion rather than a rule.

To echo what your saying and add a bit, it seems to me Godot would be a great idea.

Given OP has already stepped away from development once, I think a more universal game engine rather than a custom engine would be beneficial.

Also, I suspect, there are a lot more Godot developers compared to people who are willing to take time to understand and develop a custom game engine.

I’m not familiar with deploying custom code/packages/programs on a multitude of systems, but from the Godot updates, my understanding is that, its clicking a box. I feel that multiple systems are a nontrivial hurdle that could be avoided via Godot.

Last thing off the top of my head is that I recall one of the Godot tutorials is developing a pixel art fighting game. That seems like it would be an easy way to boot strap the game’s development.

Regardless, I think a FOSS brawler game is a great idea. Good luck with development and I look forward to checking it out when its available.