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Absolutely love to see it. Godot majority next year hopefully?

Wow, Godot has exploded... Did anyone rep my beloved Adventure Game Studio this year?

GODOT IS SO OVERTAKING IN 2026 TRUST

As one of the other commenters pointed out - lack of web deployment and poor default options (which lead to unnecessary large games) both lead people to think Unreal isn't really suitable for small games.

Every game jam I've been in where there was an "unreal guy" - their game never ran well and it often had more visuals than gameplay. Multiple different times.

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This is the same reason why Python is the default for fast prototyping despite Java and C# existing: People shouldn't need to "know their way" around a toolset to create lightweight implementations. The goal is to be able to get up and running with the least work possible, *study time included*.

In my experience Godot and Unity are more intuitive than Unreal. I think that is impart due to them using GDscript and C# respectively. C++ and some of the strange design choices in Unreal can make it very difficult to use, especially for a game jam.

joke: wow, what happened with Unity.

I guess all those years waiting for godot paid off 😎

we're thrilled to have our #poetry #puzzle #horrorgame in this crazy mix!

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Gadot brought Brackey tutorials back so I’m not that surprised by the jump in popularity but almost tied with Unity is crazy

Love to see it!

At first I was disappointed there were still so many Unity users, but after seeing this I’m very glad more people are turning to Godot

We can see the fall of Unity subscription change!

Unity:

Open Source, yay! You love to see it. 😎

This is like watching a slideshow presentation of agar.io as the second biggest blob is about to engulf the first.

Can we get a break down of games involving trains, cowboys, and both?

Oh I jump from Unity to Godot 2 yrs ago, previously used Unity for 10 yrs. And I can say, they are super similar to use! Especially with C# (I never wrote a single operator in GDScript). And made this: store.steampowered.com/app/955010/A... Hit me up if you'll ever need any help with migration!

Also forgot to mention, in my case, I'm going off to a Game Design & Production Diploma, meaning I'd need to use Unity and UE over Godot, which is never used. I'd much rather pour time there rather than an engine I'm never going to use.

Oh and: - I want to implement online multiplayer as a core feature Not sure where Godot stands there but Unity seems to have decent support

It might just be me being confidently wrong, as I did more research into it and... yep, I was wrong on that front, seems easier, now it's just it not being personally my thing then 😭

Hoping for more use of Panda3D myself.

I'm not surprised to see Godot continuing to eat up Unity's portion. The more I use it, the more impressed I am.

Seems like Godot is very popular! I was intending to make a submission using Godot.

Them bringing back their web rendered would be nice, but it was pretty awful at the time so I understand why they dropped support. And, yes, default settings are really poor, especially the way it includes random huge plugins that most people probably don't want anyway.

Likely mostly projects that are long term and people that simply aren't aware of the news

I mainly work in unreal, but for jams web export imo is non negotiable. Especially for big ones, less friction the better

Regarding UEs clunkyness for jams: Idk, it fits their target audience and seeing which secondary target groups (ie business applicaitons) they're constantly onboarding, seems like Epic gave up focusing on this category. Their mobile exports are still sub-par as well.

I am happy to see the Godot's ecosystem growing bigger and bigger.

Great to see Godot on the rise! We are currently working on our first indie game in Godot as a team, we love it ❤️

I'm very happy to see Godot gain a strong foothold, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little sad to see the @gamemaker.io slice getting smaller. It was my first engine (Game maker 6!) so it will always have a special place in my heart.

Very glad to see Godot maintaining it's strength! Hopefully will have overtaken unity by next year

Good to see Godot use growing (even if it's just based on snapshots from one set of game jams)

𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒

waiting for Godot (to overtake Unity)

Let's Gooooooo(dot)!!!!!

GODOT WINS

Oh nice! Godot seems to be on the increase recently. We use Godot for our little indie car game x

Well now I’d love to know what those 11% “Other” are!

Thought this could be Godot's year to take the lead. Super impressive growth.

That and GMS2 has a controversial UI. A lot of people stayed on GMS1 because the Workspace thing is very unpopular, but also very polarizing (Either it's your favorite way to make games or you have a personal vendetta against it) Personally I'm still on 8.1 because GMS1 won't run for me lol

I've used all 3 and IMO GMS is easily the worst, but admittedly I never used GMS2 that extensively before going to Unity.

ALL RISE FOR GOATDOT

the lil robot is growing up to be so big and strong !!! i hope he has a nice warm meal tonight

Nice to see Godot grow like that

Very happy to have contributed to the graph on Godot's side 🙌

Is there a pie chart breaking down the other slice?

I don't think disqualified games change the submissions, but many people remove their own game from the jam for whatever reason!

Amazing to see Godot continuing to grow and becoming to game engines what Blender is for digital modelling. Unity really shat the bed.

I really want to put in the time to learn Godot in the future, particularly when I'm ready to make the jump to 3D, but as someone who is currently a dedicated GameMaker user it makes me very sad seeing how few people are using it. It's a genuinely fantastic engine.

Crazy how much traction Godot has gotten with devs. I need to see what all the fuss is about.

Go Godot, go!

Do we know the 3D to 2D split on itch?

Godot? More like GOAT-ot (Does this joke work AT ALL?)

Love to see the godot popularity rising 💕

I would love to see a breakdown of other and what small game engines was used

Didn't you use to show this same graph but filtered by top rated games? Like Top 10/100/1000 rated games' engines? Would love to see that again.

Kind of crazy to see an increase in Godot use by almost 100% between two years.

I'm so glad to see Godot doing so well... It's the little engine that could!