One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2836·
      1 year ago

      Oh god. Please aim higher than that. Not saying that Blender ain’t powerful, because it clearly is, but it’s UI is just plain shit. (Unless there have been some massive improvements over the last few years.)

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
        29·
        1 year ago

        I mean I’m coming from maya and Max, I taught myself blender last year, UI seemed pretty nice.

        I remember messing with it 10 years ago, and really hating it. Nothing like that now.

      • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        The… UI in blender is really good. Have you used any other equivalent software or know how complicated it is?

        It’s not “good but it’s a hard problem to solve”. It is more “great and it’s a hard problem to solve”

        • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          I wish GIMP had a full UI redesign like Blender, it could work as a Photoshop replacement for many use cases but… Jesus it’s non intuitive, flawed and it mixes opposing design principles all the time.

          There was a project that renamed it to a less controversial name and updated the UI to more closely resemble modern photo manipulation tools, but they’ve stopped working on it before a major release.

          EDIT: There’s PhotoGIMP by Diolinux, a Brazilian Linux YouTube channel with a really nice host. This is a set of plugins and configuration files that try to ease the transition from Photoshop to GIMP for newcomers. It’s certainly good, but as an add-on, it can’t actually fix all issues with GIMP.

          • lloram239@feddit.deEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Gimp’s problem is not so much the UI, but that it has fallen way behind Photoshop in terms of features. Fixing up the UI wouldn’t hurt, but you’d still be stuck with a graphics app that’s 20 years behind the competition. It would need a heck of a lot more work to catch up.

          • jackalope@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            You’re thinking of Glimpse o believe. And yes gimp really needs a change. Krita isn’t bad but not good for more graphic design oriented tasks. It’s type tools are awful.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    1 year ago

    My wife has a few things on YouTube she made with Godot, and she has noticed a significant increase in traffic, since Unity made their blunder.

    Godot really deserves their increased popularity and donations, it’s absolutely amazing what they have achieved as a true Open Source project that is absolutely 100% free to use, and gives 100% control to game developers.

  • librechad@lemm.eeEnglish
    431·
    1 year ago

    I’m donating $5, not much but I love to see companies like Unity burn.

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Unity’s take is 2.5% past $1m in revenue.

      I’m never, ever going to hit those numbers, but if do, I’d rather willingly commit that 2.5% to Godot.

  • froggers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    Very nice. This money will enable them to make it better. One day when I might start learning how to make games I hope that Godot will be one of the best choices out there.

    • elscallr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      1 year ago

      Unity’s recent fuck up is a massive boon for them, I really hope they can capitalize on it. This is one of those moments that only happens once, if they push their development and marketing over the next 12 to 18 months they can snag a really significant share of the market and use it to vault themselves to the next go-to engine.

  • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    as a life long gamer who has had to ‘grow up’ and learn trades to survive and pay bills. it would be hella fun and possibly cathartic to mess with a free game engine. I’ve been playing games for 30 years. Maybe it’s time i take all that knowledge and frustrate myself on a passion project. Thank You Unity for showing me GODOT.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      You don’t have to pay for Unity/Unreal either

      I’d recommend just using mod tools if you are looking to play around because it covers a lot of the work

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Not by our own accord. Unity is the seemingly cool, weed-sharing guy with shady friends who wanted to introduce you at a party one day and decided to grope your boob to tell Musk how laid back you were and they both laughed.

      • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Glad you asked. It’s another open source 3D game engine that may feel a bit more familiar to those who are used to Unity. This is their website.

        I’m still just starting to learn it myself, and it can really use some more features, but I think it’s pretty cool. I like the UI more than Godot’s, and I like working in C#.