Game Development Programmer's Obligations

[YinYin]

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Starting on an engine is always faster. Unity is full feature free now as well btw.
I'm a little confused though why you would be deciding on the platform/engine?
Your indie teams don't seem to know what they are doing if they don't have that figured out.

That's good news about Unity! Thanks for sharing! Isn't it supposed to be me who decides what I am going to use though? I don't know how it should be, but the rest of the team barely care about what I am using or the code itself.

There is no how it should be. But I would expect whoever has the lead on a project to have enough knowledge on every front to make a potent decision in that regard. Else you pretty much have a huge lead and if your output cannot keep up with how fast you want the team to progress you may simply need more programmers or scale the project down.