A blog entry about Godot

Peter

A developer (I think he was involved in the famous discussion) names pros and cons of Godot from his point of view. We can use the pros to advertize for Godot, and the cons to improve Godot.

https://gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2277364-godot-explorations/

He names for example:

GDScript is slow. (No surprise about a script language.)
He wants to keep his bought assets. (Off course paid assets are superb.)

ffaf

Thanks for sharing!

What would be a solution for problem #2 (paid assets)?

Peter

Good and important question!

I think we should do several things:
a) Godot should cooperate with an engine independent proprietary asset provider. (But this is disputable. This is the old question about short-term tactics "making it popular" (open source attitude) or long-term strategy "sticking to libre content" (free software attitude))

b) We should help opengameart.org (OGA) (Money, producing assets, ad, art jams)

c) Godot could integrate OGA assets and assets from public domain sites into the engine (probably in the form of an extension).

d) If there is any missing art production tool in the free software cosmos, we should close this gap. But the only missing tool I am aware of is that Gimp currently is more complicated to use than Photoshop. But even for that exists already a project. PhotoGIMP seems to do exactly that.

I think there's even more, but I can't quite grasp it. So this is it, but possibly (a) is not good.

Technopeasant

Don't know about Godot, but GDevelop has a asset library packed in.

Modanung

Technopeasant So does Blender.

Peter

Maybe then Godot should, too? With the new work assistance, maybe they have the time to do so?

dulsi

Godot already has an asset library you can download from in the UI. I haven't really explored it much.

Peter

Thanks for telling.

Then I think the FOSS community is doing much already, which is great. When I look at OGA I think we still can improve much. Unfortunately I'm not a great painter, especially when it comes to coloured images.