Game Engine Popularity in 2024 

I made a 2D tile based open world game engine in C# I'd love you to review sometime

Nope. A single solitary grain.

@@gamefromscratch but very zoomed in!

Not sure why people seem to think UE5 is a bad choice for a game jam, you can get something decent done extremely fast with all the built-in functionality and stick to only BPs if you want to avoid the headaches of C++

@@GS-tk1hk I think the biggest reason is the requirements to run it. If we had to present on some random laptop, it would have run poorly, and because it was a jam, we didn't exactly optimize much. With Godot, I can make something pretty similar and because of the by-default less system requirements, it'd be more likely to run better on a supplied computer if that were the case. It's not super easy to minimize the size of packaged UE builds because of some frankly dumb decisions on epic's part (like including the giant convolution texture used in bloom, even on a mobile build), and a lot of people don't know much about setting up the config files or anything about cvars.

@@PretendCoding Solid points!

fr Epic needs to improve their software/support for mobile, loads of bloatware, would be nice to have a lightweight build of UE @@PretendCoding

@@DevLancelot Not a bad idea. I'll put it on the list.

They lost 25% of the overall "pie", but that represents a 41% drop in numbers for them, relatively speaking. ( 1 - 36/61 ≈ .41)

I get tired of companies now only being ran by execs & board-directors who only focuses on short term goals for their quarterly bonus, I bet when the company is not doing it's best, they'd just sell all stocks and move on to another company, repeat.

Yes but unity is so heavy for a chance for godot. We talked about it some years ago, but it's still so hard to beat the leaders.

Ludum Dare will show less gap between Unity and Godot users and be more accurate of the userbase percentage because it is done remotely while the GGJ often occurs in "Unity schools".

Unity sucked from the Start. Unity has features but no Pride.

aggreed

quarterly?

The Ludum Dare is the second most popular game jam and it occurs every 4 months. It last 72h.

​@brnrpersonI read in 4.2.2 they are adding option to set Web Heap Stack size. What is it ?

Same! I really like it!

@brnrperson oh you want to target Web and Android like me as well. Currently what Engine you prefer or using ?

​@@Volt-Eye.a Stack is the area in CPU memory used to keep track of address spaces and parameters when entering functions. it allows the CPU to keep track of the function path it's in when calling functions so that it can return to the previous ones upon finishing. increasing the size of the Stack would mean it can go deeper on the recursiveness of functions being called inside of other functions i don't remember exactly what is the Heap though. i remember it has one level of indirection but it mostly refer to a similar thing, so i assume it's related to the RAM memory.

@@Volt-Eye. Godot has large web export, but it's ok. Only Godot 4 with C# don't have export. For html 5 Gdevelop is good because it's javascript engine. Don't really care about engine use what you comfort with.

I would not, c# is incredibly difficult to read and use compared to c++.

@@KomodoBitGamesI agree with you. C++ with unreal engine is more easier than c# with unity.

Im sorry but what the f-? C++ and C# are VERY similar (# is just four plusses after all) and if you can do C# you can definitely also do C++, you _might_ run into some C# function not existing but spend 1 minute in Google search and you have it for C++, so that means it's honestly a neglectable difference.

@@KomodoBitGames What lol? With utmost respect etc, honestly both of you should take a step back from whatever you are basing this view on and objectively look at both languages, they're 95% the same, you make it sound like its Python vs Basic or something. I have the feeling you've looked at _different pieces of code by different people_ in both languages and assumed that there was a bunch of difference between them because of the language, but instead of that the differences were because of the different coders/goals/structure/whatever. Its essentially the same things with C# just having a little more helper functions etc & C++ just having a little more performance, so if you want it easier you pick C# and if you want faster code you pick C++ but you can apply the same design principles to both, most functions are the same, most code can be directly moved between them without changes, etc etc.

Yeah, just thinking about game development that it really makes sense to create game for browser because it is likely that people start playing games on their smart-TV without any consoles. It is hard to port game different stores to make it available everywhere.

They can't be because many studios use their own in-house engines.

My take from the numbers is, Unity developers simply didn't participate this year. That seems to be the biggest difference.

​@@gamefromscratch I could see that. Many Unity Devs are currently working on learning new tech and don't feel confident to jam with them yet. I know that's where I'm at.

It's in the area chart - the "Unknown" and "Other" categories ballooned. Regional and platform breakdown of 2023 vs 2024 would be interesting, since those ~2k new GameJam participants may be from countries where PC/console is simply not as relevant.

@@mandisaw This suggests some kind of a methodological error, that's too many unknowns, I think?

@@lucidjar Perhaps, or they changed where the cutoff was for named engines, leaving a lot of smaller ones off this time. I saw their list-of-games pages, but I've never participated, so I don't know how they decide on categorization. Could just be on the submission form.

They probably just sat out the game jam. If you take a huge trauma blow, like the tool your heavly invested in doing something super stupid, it could break your spirt for doing things like gamejams. This isn't something where there's a guaranteed number of entries each year, and would be very dependent on the mental/emotional state of the world per year.

I started using godot like right after the unity stuff happened, and i can't be more in love with an engine right now. I still use unity for other projects but it's weird that i just feel happiness every time i use godot. In my case i already know a lot of programming (plus 6 years of gamedev using unity) and to me, the entry difficulty for godot was 0 (didn't even use C# with godot and learnt GDScript). It's amazing lol

I wrote a book on PlayStation Mobile. I freaking loved PlayStation Mobile, it was about to be the next big thing, take the crown from Microsoft after they screwed up XNA. Then, weeks before I published as PSM was going live Sony Japan stepped in (it was a Sony Europe project) and forced them to add a subscription to it, and it was dead on arrival.

@@gamefromscratch Yeah, that subscription made it unattractive for indies, and when they went back on that fee it was already too late. It was finally shut down in 2015.

Unity has destroyed all their trust, what they're doing is damage control to try and give the illusion that they're fixing things whereas in reality they're not, they've also done this before

ar u sure Godot is top 1 if u search top 10 game engine in 2024

Surprised at the lack of RPG maker having a statistic. My site specifically had a lot of rpgmaker games, maybe like, at least 5-10, so of the 43 games at my site, almost close to a quarter of the games made?

Good engine on paper but indies don't use it. Cry Engine is "why not Unreal" type of engine ;-)

@@igorthelight CE3 was graphically the best engine in his era, now im hoping for a revival of CE with version 6

@@klebleonard True! Well, they still have a chance! ;-)

because they always cry in corner

Godot is top 1 if u search top 10 game engine 2024

Give Godot a shot, the community will support you

Looks like it was mainly a drop in the overall jam participation

O lmao, why did I not notice that myself. Thanks

True though you can do c++ in godot yourself with gdextension

@@saul8510 Yes, but scripting with C++ in Godot is way more difficult than using C#. It would've been better if Godot had something like IL2CPP and DOTS

You should switch from Photoshop to GIMP as a sign of solidarity.

@@SylvanFeanturi You mean - to Krita ;-)

I was saying in the first picture.. not the whole video..

Already back in Godot . 😮

Its just u got assets everywhere.