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
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@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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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@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@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
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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