[RndTbl] Godot open source game engine

[Troy Denton]

>
> Troy -- so you've used Unity before? Are there any specific things
> better/worse/missing from either, compared to the other?


Hey Kevin, yes I've used Unity a number of times in the past.  Unity is a
pretty great tool - it's got Godot beat on features, but it's also more
complicated to learn in my experience.  You can export games for modern
video game consoles, which is a big selling point as you can imagine.
Nintendo has actually released games made with Unity at this point!
(alright, it was a mobile game, whatever).  Unity's licensing model is
interesting, in that you don't pay until you exceed a certain amount of
revenue.

In Godot, you can technically export games for xbox one (via windows UWP),
but otherwise console support isn't there.  You can export to
Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/HTML5, though.

Unity was a large and cumbersome install the last time I used it, whereas
the Godot editor is quite a bit smaller, and was trivial to get running on
Linux.

Overall, I'm 100% using Godot for my next game project!




On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 2:56 PM Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Troy -- so you've used Unity before? Are there any specific things
> better/worse/missing from either, compared to the other?
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 9:11 AM Troy Denton <trdenton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any game developers on this list?
>>
>> Godot (https://godotengine.org/) is an open-source game engine - I'd
>> call it a viable alternative to the Unity game engine.  I recently
>> participated in a "stop waiting for godot" game jam.  The idea being,
>> learning this new game engine and making a simple game over a weekend.  You
>> can see my little attempt here https://hamnstar.itch.io/log-game, and
>> the rest of the entries at
>> https://itch.io/jam/stop-waiting-for-godot/entries
>>
>> I'm very impressed by this open source project and the quality you can
>> produce with it (note: my little game is intentionally retro-looking :) )
>>
>> -Troy
>>
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