Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding
Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
All hail FOSS and Godot.
236I really hope Godot will become as good for games like blender is for 3D modeling
175Oh god. Please aim higher than that. Not saying that Blender ain't powerful, because it clearly is, but it's UI is just plain shit. (Unless there have been some massive improvements over the last few years.)
-5They massively changed the UI in 2019, in version 2.8. Hasn't changed much since then though.
If you remember Blender having a bad-looking light grey UI and no support for multiple workspaces, that's the old version.
62I mean I'm coming from maya and Max, I taught myself blender last year, UI seemed pretty nice.
I remember messing with it 10 years ago, and really hating it. Nothing like that now.
40There have in fact been massive improvements over the last few years
30The... UI in blender is really good. Have you used any other equivalent software or know how complicated it is?
It's not "good but it's a hard problem to solve". It is more "great and it's a hard problem to solve"
20Blender 2.79 and earlier was super-unintuitive. 2.8 gave it a fresh coat of paint it's easier and more featureful with each version (Now 3.6, 2.8 was years ago!)
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11That was Blender 2.9, and we're on 3.6! It has gotten fairly good, I love it.
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My wife has a few things on YouTube she made with Godot, and she has noticed a significant increase in traffic, since Unity made their blunder.
Godot really deserves their increased popularity and donations, it's absolutely amazing what they have achieved as a true Open Source project that is absolutely 100% free to use, and gives 100% control to game developers.
130Yeah, now I'm concerned this might happen with Unreal Engine, even though they've given no indication that it will. Once Godot works out the kinks with level and texture streaming, and has a landscape editor I will be going back to Godot.
77Long-term I think corporate tech as we know it is screwed. Their explosive growth from the pandemic making everyone terminally online is drying up as more and more people go back to touching grass, so now the bill’s coming due and it’s only a matter of time now before Unreal also does something stupid we can’t even imagine for a quick buck
26People were terminally online well before 2019. It exacerbated the problem but we're not going back. I don't really think that's a problem, technologically it pushed us further ahead which is always a good thing.
You're right in that we are starting to rediscover what it means to be physically social again. I think that's a good thing, too. People that got away with shit before aren't getting away with it any more.
14The problem is that interest rates have gone up after being extremely low ever since the 2008 crash, so investors lost their endless supply of debt-fuelled free money. They can't pump money into companies operating at a loss anymore, so suddenly those companies have to find a way to turn a profit.
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Nice, it's been 6-7 months since I used Godot. Glad they got a terrain editor ported over.
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The biggest thing about Epic is that it is NOT a publicly traded company.
It doesn't mean that it's not subject to the "Infinite Growth Disease" but look at their biggest investor: Sony and Tencent.
Both Game companies that SHOULD be more interested in having access to a good game engine than to make every dollar's possible.
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I'm donating $5, not much but I love to see companies like Unity burn.
61Unity’s take is 2.5% past $1m in revenue.
I’m never, ever going to hit those numbers, but if do, I’d rather willingly commit that 2.5% to Godot.
8Unity’s take is 2.5% past $1m in revenue.
Is that before or after they backtracked?
The point isn't even whether the terms are acceptable anymore. They tried to change the deal retroactively because they felt they had a strong position in that game developers are already invested into their ecosystem.
They may have gone back to saner terms for now but unless the entire management structure resigns, there's no reason not to say they won't try again in the future.
You can't go good business with bad people.
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Oh man, this is so beautiful to see. Unity can get fucked.
46FREE POP CORN TO WATCH UNITY BURN IN THE DUMPSTER
42Very nice. This money will enable them to make it better. One day when I might start learning how to make games I hope that Godot will be one of the best choices out there.
40thats impressive
36That's impressive and amazing. Let's hope they will put it to good use and speed up the development.
36Unity's recent fuck up is a massive boon for them, I really hope they can capitalize on it. This is one of those moments that only happens once, if they push their development and marketing over the next 12 to 18 months they can snag a really significant share of the market and use it to vault themselves to the next go-to engine.
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The power of open source!
28as a life long gamer who has had to 'grow up' and learn trades to survive and pay bills. it would be hella fun and possibly cathartic to mess with a free game engine. I've been playing games for 30 years. Maybe it's time i take all that knowledge and frustrate myself on a passion project. Thank You Unity for showing me GODOT.
28You don’t have to pay for Unity/Unreal either
I’d recommend just using mod tools if you are looking to play around because it covers a lot of the work
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26Are the people who run unity best mates with musk?
20Not by our own accord. Unity is the seemingly cool, weed-sharing guy with shady friends who wanted to introduce you at a party one day and decided to grope your boob to tell Musk how laid back you were and they both laughed.
10This characterization disgusts me but it's a perfect analogy.
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It's run by the ex CEO of EA.
5Blaze your code
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14Lessgoooo
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This is the way!
12I’ve been waiting for this.
6No love for Stride?
6What's stride?
1Glad you asked. It's another open source 3D game engine that may feel a bit more familiar to those who are used to Unity. This is their website.
I'm still just starting to learn it myself, and it can really use some more features, but I think it's pretty cool. I like the UI more than Godot's, and I like working in C#.
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Very nice!
3Awesome! Hope they'll be able to work on the backlog of promised features more instead of kicking them down the road to the next version.
-34To be fair, every single project regardless of proprietary or open source has a backlog like that. It's just that open source projects show the backlog and don't have marketing people telling what is and is not in the backlog.
58All software development has issues that are simply left unfixed. Some bugs are hard to fix, and don't really matter in the long run.
Example: they don't even bother with memory management on cruise missiles, since eventually its gonna reach its target...
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It should help since they'll be able to hire more people to work on the project. Something badly needed dwith Godot is a proper testing workflow. They currently rely on the community to report bugs, and that's just not an efficient workforce. Also doesn't cover all the possible edge cases.
48I think the priorities for Godot with the new funding should be:
- Improving Composition performance
- Working to reduce overhead on GDScript to further improve 3D performance [1]
- Enhancements to tooling for content generation
- Documentation and Tutorials
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