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I’m not even mad about the MCP integrations - those are trivial enough that everyone that wanted them has made one already, and there are plenty available on GitHub. But the push for Metaverse/Roblox slurry is what’s really telling here. Tim Sweeney has lost his mind.

I read the entire announcement and I still honestly-to-God can't tell: Are they canning not only Blueprints, but also C++ support? Are they going to force everyone to rewrite every script in their new language?

Unfortunately the editor itself runs like crap for me (I have a fairly old machine), so that's a deal-breaker in itself.

Fuck it, we should all just code our own engines

It is quite a loud topic now on Twitter

Tweeted this your post on Twitter 😎

With unity bs* But yeah was listening to dropped frames when you and Cohh were discussing about that. It’s just like what happened for tabletop rpg scene with wizards of the coast bs on how they handled open game license 1.0. Many ppl made their own trpg systems and tons released around 2024.

This is a sick burn

I haven't tried it myself but there's apparently a visual scripting plugin for Godot 👀 store.godotengine.org/asset/crater...

Thank you for my new favourite tweet

Although I'm sticking with unity 5 for my current project, I do absolutely intend to jump ship to godot for future projects

Switching to Godot has been the best decision of my life and I'm not kidding.

ahh so this is the 'portability' of assets and code that they are championing

Wow, I missed the blueprints news. Even more thankful we chose to go the Godot route for our next project.

Folks always talk about Godot when they want that clean slate feel.

Why when Godot is right there waving at you from the wings?

I'll likely be staying on UE5 for as long as possible and may consider learning Godot or re-creating my game architecure Vertical Third in Godot at this point. The decision to remove blueprints is wild

I'm just going to stick to UE5 for now. I figure its got at least 3-5 more years of use considering UE4 still works on modern shit lol

Lol

I didn't switch to Godot because I don't want to learn another language... (I know it has c# capabilities) - now UE is *dropping* C++ for something called "Verse"? I'm out. The little interest I had on UE is gone.

Well, yes to the first half in terms of flexibility if the original one doesn't allow it On the second half though, mileage varies - the reason so many engines are known for "that X look" is often just the end user not changing all of the assets that the engine lets them

Also don't sleep on the documentation, it's incredibly helpful and can even be pulled up from within the engine. It even has its own getting started in 3D tutorial. docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/ge...

There's also this monster of a tutorial with a lot of good info for different styles of games from clearcode that'd be good to hop around in if you're making something similar to one of the example projects. youtu.be/TLG2yVpLDT8?...

"Our goal for UE6 is to greatly reduce the tedious work in authoring content to leave more time for creative exploration..." The rhetoric that corporations use to downplay the importance of active creation terrifies me. "Authoring content" is the whole point of it.

If Verse is using C++ under the hood, I'd wonder that. It might just force compile it and be unable to be fixed, but I wouldn't be surprised that it would still work.

Godot has a visual scripting plugin called Orchestrator that's in pretty intense development these days. At a guess, the dev pace is only going to pick up further after Epic's announcement. youtu.be/UYO7YiDeKvY

For once, Unity had done a good thing (new version with nice features) yesterday. bsky.app/profile/frey...

Def harder for the first jump from Vis->Txt; no question & obv things like dyslexia complicate it Its likely easier than they think it is; I dont blame them though. Theres a sort of formatting mysticism internally. I went from BASIC->Pascal then Pascal->C++ and in both cases it was hard {cont}

bsky.app/profile/tech...

My dad was undiagnosed for the longest time (boomers as kids were 'just not trying hard enough') & I watched his struggles through the years; it was rough Glad it helps you

haha got 'em 😎 for those who are still not convinced: bsky.app/profile/adri...

Oh. Yeah. Actually. Nothing like spending years on Unreal Engine, publishing two games and having four more that I’m working on, and saying…I’m probably going to have to chuck everything and start over bc tech bros ruined something else. Hello Godot! 😊

also godot seems to be letting slop in now :( (it's "discouraged" but allowed) codeberg.org/ethical-foss... the whole engine situation is really all over the place lol

this might be their attempt to dip fingers in this cake.

You're bang on the money, see this quote.

That UE post is a very slow trainwreck in motion. There is so much wrong with that idea from the business point of view to the development side of things, I need a blog post of the same length. My heart goes out to all UE devs.