7 Reasons Godot Triumphs: Porting My Game from Unity [Kohlrabi Starship Devlog #6] 

Welcome to the Godot club :-)

"It's not you, it's me!" We all know it's Unity's fault... We all walked away too...

10:42 you can make a script an autoload too, and can access that from anywhere😅

The number of user-made toolscripts and godot core contributors is skyrocketing. Expect really awesome stuff from the "Blender of game engines" in the near-future. I'll release my own custom tools for the engine in time, it's an phenomenal engine for extensibility

Your videos are always a lot of fun! All factors considered, I think Godot is the best choice for 2D. It's tools and structure are intuitive. Plus, because all assets are text files, if anything breaks or becomes corrupted it's a lot easier to fix.

Thanks for your video. And good luck for your next steps. I was thinking of starting with Godot too, for a future project

Congrats on the successful port!

I really enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing your experience in such a nice way :)

Welcome back, and nice to see you using Godot!

Congratulations on managing the port, though Godot seems like a great engine, it did look like a lot of work! Always happy to see progress on the game. Thanks a lot for sharing your journey! 😊

Cool devlog ! Good luck with the switch.

I need to start with Godot again. Love to see people creating stuff with it.

i may be late to your channel but i love how you do these game devs! tbh if you started doing dev streams i am all in for it!

Love the devlog, this one is my favorite, no idea why obviously but I saw that gentleman 9:04 and I was sold. XD So next month the next devlog? The global thing, apart from AutoLoaded scene and Resources mentioned below (which after loading are shared/cached across so change to the resource at one place does show everywhere else too) there are two other ways how to do this, firstly C# monkeys can you static classes :P (I also use c# before someone jumps to the defense ^.^), secondly usually you would have a main node at the top which doesn't change in your game at all so you always have it available though that's technically not a global class again.

I started making a really cool game on Godot, too. Wish you best of luck for your projects.

Perfect. Good choose.

there are good reasons why Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) exists: to address the problem with proprietary software, its licensing restrictions and requirements, as well as “switching costs”. What Unity did was creating an unpredictable and uncontrollable billing system against game devs that boosted godot popularity. Godot is basically the Blender but for creating a game, and fittingly supports blender models. No company or middleman gets to decide how your project should be and how it works, no strings attached. This is the home for refugee indie devs.

I'm glad you like Godot so far - even with the minor cons you found ;)

You've made the right choice!

As an outsider, this is mostly IT-mumbojumbo, but I agree with everything you said and you're awesome

Very cool video, I like it

When you select a Sprite2D, in the top bar there is an option to convert the Sprite to a MeshInstance and it'll triangulate it for you. You can also tell it to generate a Collision Mesh I think.

Nice video! About the audio cracking, do you use MP3? If so, try changing to OGG, MP3 is not optimal for games due to loop issues.

I am a little different, I wanted to start a 2d project in Unity with a friend, sadly I have more desire than he did and so I went after that goal on my own. This mess happened and I heard godot was good for 2d. So I switched, I decided that I would go 3d on godot mainly because I'm pretty good at 3d, I have a ton of 3d work done from previous projects in Unity and I really only went 2d because I wanted the first collab project to be simple. Regardless the result is godot is very much... cave man... there is less hand holding, thanks for my experience in Unity though I picked up quickly enough and even learned GLSL along the way. It's odd because I couldn't grasp visual shaders in unity but scripting shaders is so much more intuitive. Regardless now I've made this massive modular system for handling data in this rpg. I've put together some fancy shaders for my trees, grass, rocks, etc. I've got some customized character models. I've grabbed mixamo animations because I'm a sane person. I installed jolt today for my physics as my character controller is physics based. It's slower than unity but it is coming together.

Amazing content , godot is life ♾️

Your cat is BEAUTIFUL

Welcome to Godot! The community is pretty good. If you need help, don't need to be afraid of asking help from the community :D

Good to see you again and I'm glad to see that the project is coming along nicely. I use both Godot and Unity and love both engines. I'm personally still maining Unity, but engine is just a tool. The important thing is that the game is being worked on!

To store global variables like player score, just autoload a script that extends Node (but it could be anything really) and your done. This singleton is accessible anywhere and data persists during your game's run time. I do this all the time. I create a run.gd script and call it from any other script by simply calling a property a method by Run.property or Run.method()

I too did the same months ago.

I'm also an independent game developer. It is difficult to develop a game for a long time. Let's go ahead.

Godot's C# integration seems very suboptimal, like f.e. dealing with signals. How do you manage with that and do you consider using GDScript? Or do you have trust in Godot to improve their C# integration in the coming months?

Ich liebe es, wie man Deutschsprachige direkt am Akzent erkennen kann :D

Nices Video

10:40 hold on... why are you loading a tscn file there? you can add a .gd script file in there and godot will automatically instance the node that the script Extends from, with the script attached, then add it to the tree. you can observe this by using the remote tab in godot node tree after running the game. wait.... or... does this not work with c#? i think that might be the issue then. im not sure since i never used godot mono

you can use autoload with stand-alone scripts too btw. It's possible you just couldn't find your script or something for whatever reason, like maybe you used a built-in script on a node or something idk. I love godot n.n

How did you create you animation puppet? I want to create one

6:37 How Unity handle localization? 10:27 What Global Variables have Unity? You can make singleton and static variables, you can make Resource( is node less) with [GlobalClass] which wis similar to ScriptableObject. in Godot you can add Custom MainLoop script too which can have your custom node less classes too🙂 10:52 Package Manager is not a AssetLib? in Unity if you don't like something like Unity Json you can install packages from Nuget too, but manually. Unity have problems to cach up with latest C# in Godot 4.2 we already can use C# 12(.Net 8), Unity C# 9.0 with Unsupported features. Tilesets in Godot 4.2 get even more buffed now you can rotate and mirror tiles while placing them

Welcome to Godot!

This video is nice But how do you start learning game dev?🤔

Welcome to the godot cult

Don't worry, I found out that mandarin trust can be rebuilt! Not the trust in Unity though, that ship has sailed...

No need for external lib for JSON - godot has methods for json build in.

so many people talk about lost of trust.... you showed your cat an orange and trust is broken. but you trusted your cat when it told you to use gadot. hehehe. Im sticking with unity. Dont want to waste time trying learn something else when i already know how to use something that works for me,

godot is the best

and Unity keeps making weird choices, like the latest choice to allowing buying real products from walmart in their games. I've been working on my game in Godot as well, and it's going great minus one or two problems with the engine's 3D bugs. Despite that, it was still a good decision to switch for me. Good luck with your game. =D

The reality is, all of these Game engines are just baselines for projects. No Game engine will or should come with every feature needed to create every single idea. Every Game Engine has its quirks, most of the time many issues are self inflicted on the implementation side, the audio problem you mentioned as an example is usually the result of over compression, if you were using mp3 files with default import settings they wouldve been getting crunched. For everything Godot has that unity dont there will be a counter part. Porting entire games is completely redundant, based on the time spent doing it I imagine the scale of your game wasnt too big so fair enough, but a good example would be say 6 months spent porting couldve been spent creating modular systems that solve everything that dev feels unity is lacking. The source code argument is counter intuitive based on this fact, if features was the main issue for someone why spend the time porting when you could just make the feature, as you will run into this issue somewhere else down the line as u hit a wall with that Game Engine too.

godot is good cause it is opensource that means creators of the engine cannot pay wall you for installation of the game you made. if they try there will be another godot that takes place of that cause anyone can branch the software to make it free.

I stayed with Unity and the reason is very simple, as developer I'm not engaged with Unity as a human like connection, it's purely a business connection, Unity is the best at every game genre out there except photorealism, that's where Unreal takes the lead, it provides countless packages for free, it's the most documented engine out there, it has the biggest community, the biggest assets store, and it's incredibly cheap for what it offers even compared to Unreal, Godot is free but it barely offers anything... That's the reason why I chose Unity 7 years ago, it's doing the most to help my business. Their runtime fee wasn't liked, and everyone told them to rework it and they did, the trust argument is irrelevant because Unity is a public company with shareholders that aren't fond of losing money, so in case they do something stupid again which is quite unlikely after the runtime fee, you can bet the community will rise up again and tell them to rework it, and you can be sure Unity would try its best to stay on the community's side because without us they're bankrupt. This is not a relationship with a human where they might betray me in the future, this is a business relationship where they can't win if the community doesn't win.

Honestly, this will set you back greatly and honestly feel you made the wrong decision here. But time will tell.

For global variable there are few ways. You can save within save files it should be easy with plain number or other primitive values. Other way I would recommend using resource(scriptableobject) with saving feature as well. I learned that from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6vmRwLYWNRo.html Besides that I did notice that godot isn't much different than unity when it comes to structure. You can write component nodes or use resource like scriptableobjects in unity. Pretty seamless port for me.

You were way too nice about the unity situation. Unity totally screwed over the gamedevs. I will never forgive them, ever. I hope they go out of business.

Just be careful. When dragging things between folders **ESPECIALLY** if you use subclassed nodes as it has a 15% chance of completely breaking your project. Also do keep in mind godot packages your project resources and source code as-is (sans code comments) so it's absolutely trivial for anyone to download your game on steam, and turn it back into a godot project, repackage, and resell it as their own (or auto-enable any DLC or MTC features you added for free). You can kinda do this with Unity projects, but it's harder, and actually requires effort and some work to put it back into something you can load in unity. For godot it's basically a single command to do. Also note that although Godot is free, you will be paying an external company whatever their going rate is if you want to port your project to a console platform (if you don't plan on releasing on console then no issue here). I tried godot, but the constant project-breaking bugs, IDE glitches and lockups, complete lack of asset protection, and inability to export to consoles made it a non starter for me (of course this is just my personal opinion, use what works for you).

We all know it’s unity. It’s a good move. No one should support unity anymore.

I bet U 1 year from now U don't have ANY, I said ANY cons about Godot! :)

Even though Godot is free but the education is not free for godot site..

womp womp

Please remember, Singletons are an anti-pattern, so it is better to only use static classes/members.

why do this much beginners use unity a bad game engine that is trying to be more than that and failing when they did not have photo real renderer they were being used every where but now its more unreal I hate these engines cause they do not want to give you control over the engine to make it easier for you to work with and need another launcher than it self that takes 20gbs for no reason other than be a url portal. this is done by unreal as well it is so disqusting that I do not use either to create my game. So I do not comprimise from my view of the game I make.

downvote not interested in this opinion yet youtube put this anti unity DISCRIMINATION in my timeline!