WTF?

1. Is this website in any way endorsed by Microsoft or any of the Babylon.js Project Maintainers?

   No.

   I am not endorsed by anyone at all. It can be the Unofficial Babylon.js Marketplace. Right now it's the only one. So I'm cool with that.

   The fact that I'm using the name of the game engine as part of my domain name, should not be seen as an endorsement. That's just SEO.

   I've really enjoyed using the engine and want to add something to the community. I don't see an asset marketplace for the Babylon.js Community and every other game engine seems to have one. I wondered if a bit of financial incentive isn't what's needed.

2. What are the Paid Courses about?

   I'm making courses and finished code that can be used compatibly with other courses and code on the Market.

   Lots of smart people know Javascript/Typescript for their Web adjacent jobs. Meanwhile the freshness and beginner level of game dev information I found was lacking online. Game programming information in Typescript/Javascript especially left alot to be desired.

   So, scratching my own itch, I am producing courses that go beyond just the basics of game development. We cover topics that I don't see covered anywhere and attempt to build fully realized games, not tech demos.

3. Can I write Free and Paid Courses and make money on this Digital Marketplace as well? I have Babylon.js or Game programming knowledge coming out my ears!

   Hell Yes, You can! There's a massive Choose Your Own Adventure landscape of game development knowledge to be uncovered stone by stone.

   I'd like to train fisherman instead of selling fish at this marketplace. Fish tend to get smelly after a while.

   So, the focus of this marketplace is in code-along guided learning in Typescript in written format. The hope is we can build on early work so the code and courses can be compatible with each other as we get into advanced topics.

4. What does E.C.S. stand for?

   It stands for Entity Component System. It's a Coding pattern, to organize your game code and data so it can grow as big as needed without becoming unmanageable. ECS is a part of every major game engine. It's a famously effcient way to run and write a game.

5. What if I don't like E.C.S. for some reason?

   The E.C.S. pattern is only a small part of what you'll learn in the course. We use the E.C.S. pattern to update entity data in a game world. The Component pattern help the projects complexity scale linearly for the developer.

   That said, if you'd rather use a different pattern to build your game, you're more than welcome. You'll still learn a lot of game programming patterns and working code here.

   Each course covers the general game design coding ideas and algorithms first with a code-along approach, With demos exploring each in isolation. We then take that knowledge gained and build a seperate Component which we can then call from the System code.

6. What is Babylon.js?

   Babylon.js is simply the most advanced game engine for the Web Browser.

   If you've used or heard of Three.JS. it's like that, but better for Games.

   It's a Free and Open Source project, sponsored by Microsoft, with a healthy and active community behind it. It's been around since 2013 and has been pushing forward what Web Browsers are capable of, that whole time.

   It's also famously backwards compatible from version to version. A claim really no other game engine can make.