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Finally. Out the window with unity. Bloated piece of crap.

I just learned about Godot a week ago and am truly liking it! Nice!

From a programming perspective, GDScript is so fun to use. Much nicer syntax compared to C# and you can literally drag objects from the scene into the code editor to get their reference. The way Godot's scripting section integrates with the rest of the engine makes me never want to go back to Unity.

what position did net yaroze come

In the last ~year I made the decision to go as open source as possible going forward, and I have to wonder if other people are feeling the same way? I'm burned out. Also, I am happy to see Other making some strides. The Other engine isn't as widely used, but the documentation is really expansive.

Is this because of the change to their pricing model? Is Unity no longer in favour?

Finally, communism has won— I mean, open source.

I like GameMaker, but haven't used it for 1.5 decades.

Yeah, I think the question asking which engine is not representative enough. I'd also like to know what programming languages were used.

hell yeah let's go godot!

The only option on the form was "Other/None", no write-in

I can tell you my other: it's my own engine Jinks @jinks.gg jinks.gg

Fascinating to see the slow growth to power

C# is not yet a first class citizen, but it's still actually quite usable, speaking as someone who does almost all of their godot work in C#

You can use… literally anything. I use Swift

I came to Godot from Unity and it took me literally an afternoon to learn GDScript. It actually took longer to learn the C# version just because you're having to go the long way round in certain cases (which is a shame, admittedly). I definitely wouldn't let GDScript be a barrier!

You can use C# just fine, but also GDScript is basically just C# with pythonic syntax style. They're really similar.

No, but you'll have a better time if you do. C# support is excellent, but GDScript is just so easy and the development experience is tightly integrated with the engine.

The core godot API is best used with GDScript, but there are a lot of different languages supported with C# being offically supported

you don't. godot works great with AI.

GDScript is ridiculously accessible if you’ve used any other programming language, it’s like the love child of Python, Basic, and Unity flavoured C#.

I went to begin coding my first project and spent hours trying to install Unity and do all the prerequisite stuff. Godot took 30 seconds to begin coding. Uninstalled Unity after that. It seems like total bloatware.

I built a game a couple of weeks ago and the export zipped to about 40MB. It'll grow as the engine does, for sure, but I do think if it hits the size of an empty Unreal Engine project we'll have lost something valuable

I love that this is an option, although I can't imagine anyone much uses it? I use Godot precisely because I *don't* care enough about adding 20MB of download to figure out how to compile a cross-platform C++ project, if I did I'd make my own engine

I guess we will never know. But from when I have seen bots drop comments, then their accounts no longer exist 5 minutes later... I know when it walks, talks & smells like a duck.

what a huge jump! so proud of the godot foundation and the community for giving this foss program so much love to help it keep growing! we love godot!!!!

finally! vladimir and estragon will be pleased

Godot is freedom, it's not just free to use, it's literal freedom in the same way Blender is. You have a toolkit, and Godot just puts all those tools in one neat place with a nice little programming interface. Also the best community.

Unity definitely has not made themselves particularly likeable in recent years lol

Let’s gooooo(dot)!

I'm certainly in the "use whatever engine suits you" school of thought, but I love Godot, so I'm happy to see this! Plus, I don't miss waiting half an hour for my Unity project to finally open...

Next year, when the pie chart is just a full circle :P

Unfortunately its color is boring corporate gray now

Yeah godot in red makes me think of that weird redot thing, which exists to complain about minorities existing or something. unity can be red and godot can steal blue.

godot takeover 🙏

The king is dead! Long live the king!

My advice is to try it. It is a super small download and doesn't even install to your program files, so if you don't like it you just delete one file and youre done.

It has improved massively on many fronts in the past few years, so it offers tons of convenience features. It's not exactly full feature parity w/ Unity/unreal, but literally a 1 or 2 week evaluation was enough to make Megacrit switch for slay the spire 2. (They do 2D animations with spine, though)

I MISSED IT NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I used to really like Unreal. Now when a game starts and I see the Unreal logo, I think “I wish more people used Godot.” My wish finally came true 😢

Did my part!

Suck it unity

Someone should make a "The downfall of Unity" game jam.

Unfortunately they can't really fix their biggest issue: trustworthiness

Heck ya, Good to see Open-source being fully embraced in these times of PEAK corpo-slop. Every Engine has its place, but locking yourself in to an abusive relationship as a consumer has none. Except for Adobe users... I think their into it.

Yay!

3 years back? You had Cassette Beasts, The Case of the Golden Idol, Brotato, Until Then... just to mention a few of the most notable ones.

If I remember right, Road to Vostok is also being produced in Godot now. It used to be in Unity before the whole payment fiasco happened

did you look at the top sellers or just the recent reviews? there's quite a few games i recognize in the top sellers section

I never heard of a single one of those games. That is the best Godot has produced? Ouch! 😟

Thanks. Going to check it out. To be fair I didn't look at Godot for 2–3 years now.

We were waiting for it for a long time.

i still like unity more than godot tho

I'll have to slide in with sicko stuff like Odin plus Raylib next year

Gotta wonder what's in the other category. Hopefully at least one other person is out here still using Clickteam Fusion.

vamos carajoooo!

Some construct, some pico 8, some vibe coded HTML stuff, some stuff made with libraries like pygame

The blue robot has emerged superiooooorrr!!!!

consequences of shooting yourself in the foot for no good reason

I've been waiting for it... sorry if I'm the 59th person to post this.

👏👏 for Godot!

Also, Godot iteration speed is a killer feature for a jam You can download the engine, make a basic prototype and export for the web by the time Unity hasn't even finished to install the editor + no need to install any dependency (no IDE nor runtime libs) + can apply hot-reload on a running build

Unity The Engine is still solid. But Unity The Company is shooting itself in the foot every couple of months. And Godot got lots of improvements over the years.

It's pretty damn close to on par with Unity these days, and it's open source. Arguably, the workflow is just nicer too. Personally I'm way more into the nodes system than how Unity does scenes and objects. So a lot of people switched after the mess, and just didn't go back.

finalmente 🤩🤩🤩

gz @godotengine.org

I'd argue anything that defaults to a 3D void when opened is not super accessible, unless you literally *only* care about making 3D games for some unknowable reason

I'm sure there would be a few entries, but I don't see it dominating. The appeal of making games in Roblox is the captive audience, not the tools, and CERTAINLY not the community.

WE WON

Its nice to see gamemaker still appearing on here considering a lot of game dev youtube completely omits it in the big engines debates, only focusing on unity, unreal and godot even though a lot of really good games were made with GM

It's like being left handed, but for game handcrafting. False paws of the world, unite!

Exactly my point! My games are games because they are in game maker. That's why my only non game maker making, don't play breakout deluxe, don't qualify as a game but as art.

Yeah, we have hope for godot. But, before we have a full game with the 75% lacking added in it, we are waiting for Godot.

There’s always 2027!

I was willing to give unity another try then they released that video about adding AI to their engine, so I guess im never going back now.

I'm an Other! For anyone wondering what that means, in my case it was Twine.

Damn, and not just by a bit!

been waiting for this

Hi! Are you also able to provide the breakdown by top 100 games by chance? I found it super interesting in 2023 when we had that little slice, too!

I literally discovered Godot because it was the recommended game engine when viewing the KDE Discover app on Linux. And I'll be honest, I just assumed it was a big underdog but wow I was wrong, the engine is very light weight yet super powerful and keeps getting better each update.

@gamemakerstoolkit.com I also used Godot for my [attempt]. Unfortunately I procrastinated and had to learn the tools during the actual jam, so coupling that with that I didn't cancel my usual weekend plans I never stood a chance of finishing a prototype. I'll keep working on it and put it out […]

Unreal in dead last where it belongs.

Can you give a break of how many of the games where 2D and how many where 3D?

I may have zero experience with game development but... DATS MY GOAT RIGHT THERE, HECK YEH, GODOT NUMBER 1 BAAAAAABBBYYYYY

My overwhelmed ADHD brain couldn't decide upon using Unity, Godot or Defold, so I decided to watch Studio Ghibli films instead. Well done Godot, and all those who took part and completed a game.

i did! video soon hopefully

already make 2 games in gamemaker, but now working on big hack n slash cyberpunk game!

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