Godot Engine - BOOM or BUST in 2023? 

Is 2023 the year the Godot Engine takes the next step or will it fade into obscurity behind Unity and Unreal? 🎮 StayAtHomeDev Discord Server - discord.gg/dmYbvFYQRQ 💛 Level Up+ Your Support - patreon.com/stayathomedev

Now it's a BOOM for sure 😂

Godot is awesome, it's amazing that they built this engine openly to the community and non-profit

This is the little engine that could, for indie developers. I have a working understanding of Unity and tried to get the hang of it for months. Yet after just a few weeks of learning Godot (on and off, next to a full time job and family time), I could make a very simple app in 2 evenings to help prepare our 3 year old autistic daughter for her first eye exam. Godot is very simple to learn, and what you can make scales up really easily. Once you've worked through the Getting Started tutorial, I highly recommend following the Procedural Planet series which explains to you how to view procedurally generated content outside of play mode, which is so very powerful and will really leverage your level design. I then went back to a few old Unity exercises and found that, after some restructuring, I could achieve the same result with far less code and better adaptability.

I’m starting my godot journey and I hope this community helps build an awesome engine for us noobs. Please 🙏 keep godot alive.

I keep hearing "ElGato Engine" and it's driving me insane!

Let's make Godot awesome! Thanks for being a positive figure for this community.

Definitely a boom now thanks to Unity 🤣

Boy were you right... That's some Nostradamus shit right there

Cool video as always! I really hope Godot will get more popular this year, it deserves much more attention. It's such an amazing engine!

in the documentation site, in the bottom left you can change the version from "stable" to "latest" for Godot 4.0 documentation.

I would love to see Godot get an asset and merch store cause honestly I would love to buy some professional assets that would fit my project while supporting the development of the engine itself.

It took blender years to finally reign supreme and become industry standard. It was the passion of the community that pushed it to where blender is now. I already see Godot going that far. I fell in love with the engine because of the work flow. It’s so intuitive and probably has the best implementation of the observer pattern I have ever seen. I mean, have you seen unreals? 😅 my point is, I have never been interested in making tools. I have always been a gameplay programmer, but with Godot it makes me want to start, or contribute to tools like: a terrain editor and behavior trees.

One thing I really like about Godot in the AssetLib section is I can add something and just get that thing like a first person camera. It just seems a lot more lightweight and less cumbersome than other engines. I'm not sure if monetizing it will make it more like the Unity asset store in which I have had a lot of issues with packages. I really like that some things are just some gdscript code I can attach and go.

this video aged well

I’m a beginner and I’m going to start with this engine! Thanks for this video! Makes me want to try it out!

good video!! funny, i got to know about godot last year, but was this year when i decided to try it, and now im so happy that i started a Fangame of Metal slug with godot. i want to do awesome things with this engine!!

Just a correction: Godot is "free software", as it has been licensed under MIT's terms. "Open source" means that some but not all the code will be available to you.

Yes, the biggest problem for newcomers to Godot 4 is the documentation. At the initial stages of the beta version, some functions remained unchanged and even then it was possible to start compiling full-fledged documentation for the 4th version, as well as start translating into other languages. I contacted the developers on this issue several times on various resources (for example, discord), but they answered me that the translation of the documentation would be open only after the release of the stable version. And when version 4 comes out, too much time will be lost. So I'm asking the developers to open a translation of the version 4 documentation, and sections that don't exist or need to be changed can be translated later. It is also now possible to make training videos for version 4, but, unfortunately, there are very few of them or they are completely absent. And thanks a lot for the video! It was very interesting!

Great video! I'll root for Godot. ☺ Can't believe the documentation states it's pronouced Godo though. 😛

This is aging well.

The architecture of Godot is absolutely brilliant, you can easily compare it the the Quake engine when it comes to optimization. Unlike UE which can barely run on the average machine. Games made in Godot will not only look beautiful, but they'll run on most machines

One week into 2024 and there's Godot 4.3 Dev1 release already. Still some links need to be ironed out... but with w4 games and a $15mil USD grant recently... my game engine is about to get a lot better!

Some devs like to compare which engine is best, but I think it all resumes to what suits your project better. In my case, I have a 8gb ram laptop and I was able to make a 2D game in 3 days for a gamejam, using Godot. I tried using Unity, but it felt like using an assault rifle to kill an ant, in comparrison. So if you want to make a simple 2D game, try Godot. However if your project is something more complex with 3D, try Unity or Unreal, for now.

I am currently learning Godot with the goal of starting to do regular Game jams. But there are a few advantages to Unity that makes me be with one foot on the engine. Specifically, Unity is much bigger, which means it's very viable to find jobs and transition from a solo dev to a programmer. And the second part is C# sounds better long term. It's general purpose so again skills transfer better and there are so many tools to learn and master C#, like codeawars. I know Godot has C# as well but I am not sure how well supported it is compared to GDScript (also learning Godot with Csharp sounds like a nightmare for finding tutorials) and I do like GDScript as my first language as it's simple. Also uploading an HTML game for gamejams sounds like a big advantage and Unity doesn't support Chromium browsers either.

This is the first I've heard of this engine, can you run any game built on it within the browser or just some?

Godot rocks! How to submit a game to appear in one of your showcase?

gadot 4.0

Great update! "Godot 4 is really cool. But you goddoh update the documentation" I god dot joke.

say it with me GO...DoT , Gateau means cake lol, I kid :p great video o/ thank you.

I discovered GoDot today and I already started the scripting tutorial. What can go wrong?

I started out with Godot for my game dev journey. Godot was there for me when Unity and Unreal weren't I switched over to Unity after I started learning it and I kinda stopped Using Godot not for good ofcorse buut I was able to do bigger much more bigger projects in Unity with no lag I saw you can do in Godot aswell but I needed optimization and I just couldn't get it to work. Sooo for the time being I will keep learning Unity (plus it can really help me for the future in case of jobs) but that is not to say I will stop using Godot I will use it again when Godot4 full not Alphas or Betas just Godot4 full will come out I will return to see whats new here and there. I love Godot and its community just because I am using now Unity dose not mean I dont support Godot and the community anymore...and I hope everyone reading this understands. But yea can't wait for Godot4.

If only you knew about the shit storm Unity was brewing when you posted this lol. You really weren't wrong about this being godot's year

I'm just hoping it let's me make vr games easier than in unreal. Unreal is super heavy and very limited in terms what you have access to in their forward ldr pipeline. Absolutely no post process stack? That eliminates so many possibilities for design. The things you may think you can work around will be met with surprise barriers time and time again. why not switch to unity? Unity doesn't feel right. It's closed source, so no engine bug fixes either. Maybe I haven't spent enough time with it to try and make something good. I'm just hoping I get the freedom godot offers with the XR, multiplayer, and open world feature completeness unreal brought to the table. Most vr set ups need something custom that doesn't fit into unreal or unity's structure at some point. Really excited to see what Godot will do for the XR community, especially since the editor will run in vr mode directly on the quest. That will be highly enticing for XR communities and modding later down the road.

Will Godot 4 be released in the first half of 2023? I want to jump into it!

Awesome but that GADOUW pronounciation really is so annoying to bear during video T_T

godot is a really good 2d engine but I'd love to see some more polished 3d games out there

You have to be careful with open source concepts. Godot is not only open source, it's also free. Like you said in your video, you can do anything you want with the source code. You're "free" (as free beer but also as free speech). So that makes Godot FOSS (Free Open Source Software). However, there are many engine that offer "open" source but with licencing limitations. Unreal for example, I think Unity too if you pay some fee, and Flax. Those tools allow you to access their source code, so the source is "open", but they aren't FOSS like Godot.

Being open source isn't purley a good thing. The main annoyance is porting your game. If your wanting to build a game that targets console on launch your in for a bad time. However if you make a game for PC with consoles in mind and the game is successful then you can pay a porting company to do the work for you. Aside from that though I love Godot, It's a great tool. If your intrested in learning 3D and 2D I would start with Godot and then you can switch to Unity or Unreal later if you need to.

when you see god-oh you have to think like an Irish author writing in French. Gawd is American english...

I have been reading "the year of linux desktop" since 8 years at least, it never happens haha. Never lost hope tho

good dough

Godot should be sponsored by the same people/companies who sponsor blender haha

it looks like you already forgot about O3DE it is also open source let's see a video about O3DE comparing Godot with open source :DDDDD

Yes

"Gato Engine" 😺

I'll never say it like that.

Did you say Godot? Insta subscription for me.

Unreal focus hard core photorealistic games and release monthly free asset.🤔 Unity focus non-photorealistic game and focus competition with Unreal Engine. Godot focus game that is compatible all backward compatibility machine without having companies build brand new game console.

Its good for indie/solo devs looking to get a start up, its free engine that doesnt take a cut of your earnings.

0:20 Haha! I pointed outro the devs a couple days ago that they didn't specify _what pronunciation_ of "god" they mean :D Because I pronounce it like the British "god", but you pronounce it like the American "god". Anyway, it's irrelevant :D - unfa

For Godot to boom this year it's all about C# support. GDScript is ok for smaller games and great at getting something working quickly. But if they want to attract Unity / Unreal devs across to build commercial games these people are simply not going to find GDScript acceptable. As a C# developer, GDScript performance is still relatively lacking, it is also far quicker and more productive for me to use the .NET Framework instead of Godot built in functionality, where possible. I believe you can still write C# in the Godot editor but it still offers no tooltips or even code completion etc, it is a very poor experience. However Visual Studio (and Code) integration is hugely improved in Godot 4, which is good as it was pretty rubbish in 3.5. So using one of these is my strongly recommended for C# in Godot.

Wait, it's pronounced 'GOD-Oh'?

GOD OH???? GOD OH???? Bro it says godot. I'm just gonna call it Go Dot. They could have made it god oath.

I prefer Google Translate's pronunciation

Godot

Literally everyone else I've seen pronounces it more like Gu-doh, so it sounds so wrong whenever you pronounce it like that.

Documentation has always been lack luster. It gives you a hint but you are left still not 100% certain. Godot has more bugs than a WEF bug farm. Those who work on Godot make excuses for its lack of features and issues. If Blender had such "don't give a damn" attitude for devs, it wouldn't be where it is today. A lot of the stuff I see in Godot is old, like in 1990's old, concepts. WTF are we still using OpenGL? Why does the audio still use the old windows driver? Some of the devs do care and work on it diligently, fixing bugs and the like. But I feel Godot has no one directing it. Just leaving it up to who the @#!? ever to pick a project and work on it; not caring if it works or not. It's frustrating to work with when there are barely any tutorials on how to do specific things, or solve specific issues. You'd be amazed at how little comes up, that is close to relevant, with a google search on your search topic. I think Godot is easier to learn and get things started, than compared to Unity. Even GDscript is easy to understand as it's similar to Python. This is still a good tool, I think, if you want to learn game development; however, if you're a serious experienced developer, stick with what is known to work through the decades.

After unity i don't understand how this crap getting community

Stop using stock footage