I’ve just released a report summarising the results of the OGRE 2008 User Survey. Thanks to everyone who participated, we did in fact break the 1,000 responses mark which was my goal when I decided to run the survey, I think that’s a statistically respectable number to draw conclusions from.
I intend to give copies of this report to hardware and software companies I need to blag a bit of assistance from, so I think this will do the job. I’m also glad that some of the impressions I got from my work over the last few years were reinforced, such as that there are quite a lot of companies using OGRE for applications other than games.
I’ll write up a forum posting on it when I get a chance (probably tomorrow), but I don’t venture into the forum unless I have at least an hour or two free otherwise I miss some updated threads when I have to rush off! Blog readers get an early peek.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Hmm interesting, I really would have guessed around 80% of Ogres user base was purely for making games, by hobbyist programmers. Good to see that’s not the case though.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I think that’s a misconception that many people have; it’s certainly not borne out by the commercial work I do but without running a survey like this it’s difficult to back that up. Hopefully this will convince people that there are a lot of people using it seriously.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Just this week I beta tested cre8 for novint (http://home.novint.com/games/release_schedule.php) and I saw it used ogre. Can’t remember the developer though, I always like it when Ogre also gets credit somewhere, in this case in the about section.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Nice find, thanks.