Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'
Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'
Godot was a big winner when devs revolted against Unity's Runtime Fee—but its founders were worried about a surprise influx of users.
It's great that Godot was in a good place when Unity had its (inevitable?) implosion. Having used both engines I think they are comparable enough that Godot was a perfect fit for small indie and casual devs to move over to without having to learn a completely new workflow. If Godot hadn't been around I don't know where everyone would've migrated to.
Glad to see there are some level heads leading this project. Also great answer to how to pronounce it, the GIF creator should've gone for that instead of the pun.
Yeah except it's named after the play so it's definitely pronounced God-oh. I think people just mispronounce it Go-dot if they haven't heard of the play. Looking at you Mr Linus Tips.
but also the logo for the project is a robot so pronouncing it like that word makes sense and means it won't be confused with the play: ro-bot, go-dot.
Unity was one of the first applications that made me take a good look at FOSS in general because my experience with it was:
"Hey let's make a game for our final project"
"Okay, let's try Unity"
Flashbanged in light mode
Dark Mode is only available for real cash money subscription license
"Yeah okay nvm let's try something open source lol"
I'm building something heavily reliant on the physics engine. Unity you need to be an enterprise member for the ability to override methods related to physics. Easy choice
Meanwhile in my engine's editor, the default is dark mode, with no plans on making light mode on my end.
Joe-Dot
I think it’s pronounced: gif
Disgusting. I love it.
Joe Doe
Gross, it's not a JIF
Do not invoke the name of our Peanut Lord in vain!
Isn't it go bot?
The pair said it was a major relief that the calamity came after version 4.0 of Godot was released in March of 2023. That version, they felt, was most ready for a sudden rush of new developers.
Sounds like they saw it coming for a long time and successfully prepared for it
Meanwhile I picked Defold as my engine of choice and absolutely love it.
Does 'it' mean Defold or the learning curve?
I meant Defold, though I picked it up pretty easily. That said, I had very limited programming experience. It might be different for people used to working with other engines.
Right on
Godot went from a promising but limited engine for hobbyists to the 2nd most popular engine for solo developers in about a year. We're even finally seeing high quality Godot 3D games releasing to Steam.
Give it a year or two and Godot might start to make headway into the established studios, too.
Unity's implosion has been amazing for loads of engines. other than Godot too. Bevy is making progress, and some of the biggest indies this year are on less known engines, like Balatro's Love engine
Few people get to choose their fate.
How do you guys pronounce it? Go-dot or guh-dough
god-oh with no stressed syllable, like a french person with that name might pronounce it
I was trying to remember the other game making programs other than Godot and unreal, I genuinely forgot about unity
It serves my purposes well enough, and I enjoy using it.
You must wait to find out.
I don't really understand, Unity started as garbage. Sure it got better. Now what's this about it blowing up?
Unity's new revenue demands and that roll out blew it up. Not really the engine. They rightfully earned a lot of distrust.
Blowing up as in catastrophically failing.
Not blowing up as in to the moon.The company isn't in great shape and their lack of focus made them neglect important parts of their main breadwinner, which is the engine itself. And corporate greed made their core product unattractive. I know a couple of big studios that said they will not make any new game in Unity because of the licensing fiasco.