I think this is incredible, and I am so happy for him, he deserves all the praise he gets (and maybe more).

I will sin and make this about me, briefly, but just to say that when I was a kid/teenager with a really slow computer, a) I enjoyed coding much more, b) I think I was a way better programmer. Constraints make you better, you have to be smarter. I miss those times.

Unreal Engine's been free for just over 11 years now: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free

> This couldn't have happened 10 years ago.

I agree. Something similar could have happened 30 years ago, and it did, see Transport Tycoon (or a lot of early games). But from 2000 to 2020?

Very cool to see an Indonesian dev on the homepage of HN!

I have said it for a few years now. If Epic ever decided to go public on the stock market, I would throw a significant amount of my savings at them. Their technology is astounding.

Yes, some games have some issues but it really seems like that is a problem of developers not knowing when to say 'No!' to the giant tool kit they have been provided.

Wouldn't they have used Unity 10 years ago?

Out of curiosity, what is the significance of the 16GB of RAM?

> Being able to use the Unreal Engine for free to develop this is awesome

... and paying Epic 5% of all lifetime profit is a blessing too (if he makes money appropriate for "the best train sim ever made")