Clickteam, Please don't kill the retro!

but fusion 3 is for 2d game... i don't know why you said that... and give the possibility to the user to make 2d game or 3dgame with firefly is not"kill retro but just "give the choice !"

Fusion 3, albeit much more powerful than F2.5, will still be for 2D games. It has been said many times in the forums, so don't worry
A lot of people (including me) have the same emotional attachment to 2D games, I think there will be always a market for them.

I am totally exited that fusion supports 3d now but that doesn't mean moving away from good ol' 2D. It is not a bad thing to give people the option to create whatever they want, in whatever perspective they want. I'm almost surprised that it took this long for fusion to finally support 3d though, but better late than never

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Maybe I should not be scared...

No, you shouldn't. An engine is just an engine. What style you use it for is up to you. Atari 2600 games didn't have shaders or fancy physics or antialiasing, so did the addition of those features to previous versions of Fusion 'kill the retro'? Of course not. So, why should the addition of 3D be any different? All of those things are there to give options to devs, not to take them away. If a dev wants to use those things, they will. If not, they won't. It's not like Clickteam is expecting that its users are all going to drop what we're doing and start using Fusion to make Crysis 4 XD

As someone who doesn't particularly care for pixelart retro (I already lived through that generation the first time around, I have no desire to do it again), it always boggles my mind how ridiculously popular pixelart games are nowadays. We're in the middle of the greatest indie game development boom in history, with hundreds of games coming out daily....and a huge proportion of those games are pixelart retro games.

We live in a world where most of the biggest kickstarter hits are retro throwbacks. Where games Thimbleweed Park raise 600k because they promise to be authentically retro as possible. And where a game like Shovel Knight, which goes out of its way to not just faithfully recreate an NES-style aesthetic but even NES-style technical flaws, sells over a million copies.

The whole gaming world is in the middle of a huge retro pixelart renaissance. And no one is more deeply entrentched into the retro culture than the Clickteam Community. How, in this climate, is it even possible to fear that someone is going to 'kill the retro'?! :o