Unity annoys - a chance for Godot?

Peter

Unity is putting a special fee on high-selling games - retroactively. That upsets a lot of developers. Maybe Godot can pick up many of these frustrated devs?

https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-price-change-fallout-keeps-getting-worse/

ffaf

I hope it will! It is really a good piece of software, usable and with a gentle learning curve!

poVoq

Yes this comes at a relatively good time for Godot, since 4.x has more or less stabilized and their C# option seems to have matured as well.

Still, switching engines is no easy feat, and commercial game devs are probably the tech demographic to whom open-source software has made the least in-roads so far. But I am cautiously optimistic that many indie devs will switch over for their next projects.

Technopeasant

I have long thought that Godot really just needed one big thing to nudge people towards it though.

I'd prefer it be a high profile hit game, but Unity shooting themselves in the foot may suffice.

I imagine Epic is also smiling though.

Peter

There are greedy and crazy people who destroy their own customer base. Examples:

Twitter (X)
Freenode

And now Unity (probably).

Any Godot fan wanna make an ad campaign about the Unity move?

How about this:
Don't wait for Unity but go for Godot.

glitchapp

This game has been ported from unity to godot: Caves of qud

more info:

https://nitter.net/unormal/status/1703643790047592912#m

https://www.freeholdgames.com/

dulsi

I was alerted to this post about Godot. Interesting to see someone analyzing the engine for speed. It may not be an issue for some or even most but certain games will need the speed.
https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/

glitchapp

dulsi It seems that the article you posted has been answered, I think it may be interesting to post a link to the answer so here is the link: godot_binding_system_explained.md

glitchapp

Very interesting article, I hope they manage to solve those issues and I wonder how realistic is to achieve or get closer to the same level of performance of companies that bills and earns so much money as unity or unreal engine. I'm always excited when open source software shorten the distance with propietary software but I think there is a limit to what extent of that is possible...

Peter

What should we recommend if a programmer who uses Unity wants to change? (This isn't theory, someone in the old forum asked).

So far I would suggest:

Godot? Even if it's slower!
Urho3D
Raylib

Any thoughts about this?

Modanung

Peter The spirit of Urho is with Dry.

poVoq

Really depends on them individually. If they want a all-in-one IDE like they are used from Unity, then Godot is really the only FOSS option.

Technopeasant

poVoq

It depends on if they want 3D or 2D. There are a number of 2D options like GDevelop.

https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_free_game_creation_systems

Technopeasant

This showed up in my feed this morning.

Peter

Technopeasant GDevelop can do 3D now.

@glitchapp
As for the scripting languages: It depends whether you are an experienced coder or more of a scripter. Good thing about Godot: It can do scripting AND many language bindings.

glitchapp

I would say that a scripting language such as godotscript has many advantages over c++, speed may not be one, but being able to edit code and see changes immediately without having to compile everything is an advantage... I'm not completely sure though to what extent compilation is needed on godot if you use other language and not godotscript for the whole code... but it seems that at list to test the code you don't need to compile.

This site mention most of the advantages of the language of the dynamic language:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_advanced.html