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Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Mystify0771@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 239 points 1 year ago

All hail FOSS and Godot.

[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 176 points 1 year ago

I really hope Godot will become as good for games like blender is for 3D modeling

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

Yeah, 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.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

Proprietary software can never be truly trusted. You are always at their whims.

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[-] Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Long-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

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

People 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.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The 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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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/TokisanGames/Terrain3D

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[-] librechad@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

I'm donating $5, not much but I love to see companies like Unity burn.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Unity’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.

[-] cxx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Unity’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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[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Oh man, this is so beautiful to see. Unity can get fucked.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

FREE POP CORN TO WATCH UNITY BURN IN THE DUMPSTER

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Very 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.

[-] mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago

That's impressive and amazing. Let's hope they will put it to good use and speed up the development.

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Unity'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.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 36 points 1 year ago

thats impressive

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

The power of open source!

[-] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

as 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.

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[-] deanimate@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Are the people who run unity best mates with musk?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Not 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.