I made a game in Godot with No Experience 

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12+ years Unity dev here. Godot doesn't need to be a Unity killer because Unity did that on its own. There are bigger and more complex games made with Godot so I hope folks who watched this very fun and entertaining video don't underestimate what's possible with this engine.

Can't wait to see the future of this engine. Shout out to the Terraria devs for their big donation towards its success.

To me Godot is like Blender a few years ago. Many people were saying the same things about Blender, that it didn't match up to Maya or the industry standard software... Then it went from indie studios using it, to major studios using it like Gainax and its fairly competitive with the industry standard and will most certainly take over that sector further because so many people learn and use Blender because the community is large, the ecosystem is robust and its free and open source. Open source projects are generally slower moving but more consistent.

Game engines are like programming languages. If you know one, you aren't starting over if you learn a new one.. the transition is much easier than you think.

Blender and Krita are great examples of top quality open source projects, so Godot have, without doubt, the potential to reach the same level of quality.

To be fair, Unity felt like a "hobbyist" engine when it first came out compared to Unreal. In fact I never really felt in sync with Unity and it steels feels very hobbyist to me even today (well, last time I installed it was 3 years ago, but there you go). If you actually spent as much time with Godot as you already did with Unity, chances are you'd learn what it does well and what id doesn't and you'd no longer look at it as a hobbyist engine but as a tool to be used in certain situation. The most obvious example is 2D games, where overall Godot is rated as a much better engine for 2D than Unity, both performance and usability wise :) I really appreciate the effort that a lot of Unity devs put into learning other engines since the Unity debacle, but it's not really fair to compare an engine you have XY years experience with and an engine you give a look for a couple of days. If you just picked up Unreal right now, you'd also be struggling producing games as fast or as good as you do with Unity, it boils down to experience in a lot of ways

I was able to port my current project in a weekend. I even learned their script rather than doing C# again. Glad you were able to switch quickly. I look forward to your videos helping people with Godot

This is definitely a Unity replacement for me, not because I'm a hobbyist but because I can't see why people see it as a hobbyist-only engine, other than the documentation being kinda outdated and the community having barely any tutorials, nothing in this engine is telling me I can't make the same game as I would make in Unity. People say it doesn't scale well, what doesn't? Everything I've heard people say doesn't scale well, is always just a skill issue. This engine has only recently been getting it's popularity the past few years, give it a few more and I'm 100% sure we're gonna start seeing some incredible full releases come out of it, not because Godot needs more updating which obviously it does but because it takes like 3-9 years for any good games to be created, they're all just currently brewing. Obviously Unity is a much better engine especially for non-PC platforms and commercial biz but I don't like people saying Godot is only a hobbyist engine, makes it sound incapable of creating good games as if that doesn't almost entirely depend on the dev.

Getting more mainstream attention to open source projects like these will greatly help the process. Glad to see a lot of excitement for this engine. It's been fun to mess around with. Picked up that course to help out (though I'm trying to learn via C# since that's my most proficient language and it's got good performance boost vs gdscript)

A 2d game where you manage a bunch of guys with zero survival instinct. So... Lemmings? Fun to see you build this!

GamedevTV’s course for Godot was really awesome and got me started in the right direction too!

I’ve been watching your Unity content for about a year now, and it’s helped a ton. Just wanted to say thanks for everything, and that I love this new editing style 👍

Great job! Cool to see what you were able to put together in Godot in such a short amount of time 😊

Subscribed. Godot is mostly developed by hobbyist indie developers according to their needs. That's why it can currently feels that way. It evolves with the community. However with more professional developers and studios jumping on the Godot ship it will eventually get all the features they need as well. At least I hope it will. 😅

0:36 lemmings, it's called lemmings

Sam, your videos are getting so good! Love the editing.

Lemmings are back but in top-down view )

I love how you commited to using Godot and I hope you continue in the future! Ive been using it as well and it felt like such a breath of fresh air compared to Unity.

Not gonna lie, it's a little strange hearing you talk about Godot concepts after being so used to hearing you talk about Unity stuff for so long. But I'm glad you're spreading your wings. Hopefully you continue the Godot stuff so that we can learn it together!

It's called "lemmings" and it's a game from the 90's.

so basically creating a Lemmings game

All of that in just 12 hours?? Any engine that allows you to build a game like that in less that a day is good by my standards. Plus Godot is free and open source so the community would just improve it at a way faster rate. Just look at what happened with Blender with where it is now vs 5 years ago. Massive potential for Godot.

I'm so glad that despite your very tight budget on time you were willing to spend some of it for playing around with Godot and you've put fair&decent energy into it too. It was really interesting to see your experience in it especially since I really loved your takes on the whole Unity thing. You do have such a nice bubbly way of presenting game creation and with it related opinion pieces. Happy to see you reached your goal of making Godot game in 12 hours! You even thought of few little tricky parts on your level design for player to have a think or two and level progression from easy to hard. Quite impressed! Decided to sub to you ofc!

“No experience”.. 0 seconds into the video “I’ve been a unity developer for 6 years” 💀

"That one didn't age quite so well..."

Ah...Lemmings, but with more steps.

The fact that you wanted to make a lemmings game without referancing lemmings at all made me feel old

I've noticed a trend amongst RU-vid 'game dev' channels .... those that are the most 'luke warm' or outright dismissive of Godot are the same channels which generate a lot of income doing Unity tutorials. 'Conflict of Interest' comes to mind. Expecting these kind of content creators to endorse Godot in a full blooded manner is like expecting turkeys to vote for Christmas. The conflict of interest is compounded by the fact that a lot of these channels aren't even truly generating novel tutorials, they are simply regurgitating & repacking tutorials that already exist in 50 other RU-vid channels .... it's completely incestuous. The fact is, there is a great opportunity to produce Godot tutorial/training content right now ... but only the genuinely skilled developers / game devs can take advantage of that, since there isn't as much pre-existing tutorials to plagiarise. The cherry on top, re: this particular video, is the 12 hour project they set themselves is so conceptually simple ... yet they try to pretend like Godot is the bottleneck ? And not themselves ? Or their own design ? .... pretending Godot is a bottleneck to developing the kind of project illustrated in this video is ... laughable ? I dunno, it seems like it should be laughable but, at the same time, it's anything but funny.

That game in 2D... called Lemmings.

Title: No experience First line of the video: "I've been an indie developer for 6 years"

I love that they have some XR tools to mess with too, and they work without disconnecting/crashing like Unity did all the time (probably because my laptop isnt VR-ready, but Godot seems to have no problem with that).

I snitched on you to Lego about how the lego piece in this game kills the AI.

'ive been a unity developer for 6 years.' Girl, we have different opinions on what no experience means.

The game is actually super fun, good job! I can see it being super satisfying with a good amount of polish.

So you remade Lemmings, cool!

Totally agree with your points on godot (And shout out to the discord those guys were so helpful!) Im hoping in a few years it'll be at a point where we see more professional games coming out of it

Great Video! Godot is amazing! What took me 3 months in Unity took me 3 weeks in Godot! Then I converted the assets to a VR game within another 2 weeks while waiting on assets from an artist.

Finally got around to watching this! Game turned out very cool, honestly. Kinda gives factory game vibes, which is totally my thing haha I definitely feel the same about Godot. I'm struggling with it quite a bit, but still wanna give it a chance. Great video Sam!

0:45 Sounds like Lemmings.

I am working on a VR project in Godot right now. The built-in VR support and the visual shader editor (much like Cycles nodes in Blender) are killer features for me. A VR project with absolute basics can be set up in less than a minute.

I discovered your channel a while ago looking for ✨knowledge✨ and now look at me waiting for each new video ! Congrats on the ever improving channel !

Well done Sam! Getting started with something new is hard:) Hope you keep playing with the engine, would be fun to see how your opinion changes as you get more experience.

Awesome video, Sam!

Super inspirational, GameDevTV look great, Liked and Subscribed and Wishlisted

Honestly after what Unity did, Godot feels much more safer bet in the longer run. I mean look at Blender. Also, I'm surprised at how fast, intuitive and most importantly, crash-free Godot is!

Dang nice progress, didn't have time to mess with Godot too much, i like your hair here BTW

Barji gameplay is sick. Do more barji gameplay

very well done: video editing and content fluency, very professional.

estaba escuchando los agradecimientos y pensaba que me había vuelto loca por traducir en mi cabeza tu voz, pero no, has dicho hasta la proxima :D

Everything here is pure beauty, clarity and contundence. Thank you

I feel to make your game on Unity as beginer, will take more time that you take on Godot. The instalation of Unity can take easely 1 hour on your 12 hours of death line.

its interesting seeing someone who worked a very long time on unity trying another tool. Appreciate your feedback and agree. Godot its not fully ready at the time but it sounds like a good promise. Hasta la proxima, samyam 😁

Very nice video! Good that you’re getting the word out in a fun way!

I'm glad I found your channel. Looking forward to trying this game out later!

Great video. As an amateur myself using Unity, I've been trying out other options for the past few weeks. Godot was an obvious alternative, but I feel much the same way. Still feels a little 'undercooked.' I'll keep learning more and more, though. Not to mention Unreal also getting some additional attention.

Thumbnail: "unity killer" my friend, not one person has ever said that.

The problem with people used to proprietary-commercial software is that they are bloated with features and this how they try to win more customers thus a game engine becomes a whole ecosystem for 3D modelling, Animation, Sculpting, VFX, Simulation, Compositing, IDE, Music Studio, ... when people try an open source project that does what it's intended to do they found themselves lost. It's understandable but keep in mind that an open source project will not become/compete/replace a proprietary app. GIT was and is the only exception.

A Lemmings game.

I love Godot so much tbqh. When I moved from audio production into game development, every engine I tried was 100 steps just to start using the software, then didn't have access to building from the ground up. I feel like Godot is the polar opposite of this issue, you start with nothing but every door is open with a sign on it. It feels like building skills instead of skipping growing pains unlike Unity. Don't get me started on Unreal though, I hate that thing with a passion.

bestie the "unity killer" is themselves

Thank you for this video.

From one Sam to another - you make great videos. Keep 'em coming.

More than anything, I'm so glad you gave your honest opinions at the end of the video. It's a switch I had considered myself so it's helpful hearing opinions from someone who has been using Unity longer than me. Great video!

No experience? Opened and installed Godot 3 times now and have NO IDEA what I'm doing

you made godot looks like its easy to learn !

Lemmings.. It's called lemmings! Just kidding 😊

So... you're making Lemmings? :)

So basically Lemmings?

Hello samyam. I am good in maths but still i struggle a lot while crearting games with lots of movements and i think its becuase i am not using the right coding pattern or the best coding strategy for this particular task. So Can you please tell me what doing coding pattern or coding structure i should use for making a game with lots of movments. And By the way what coding pattern big companies implements for lots of movement in game?

Unless they showed you to the part in the documentation where your answer was, could you please update the documentation with the answer you got? The documentation is also open source.

Congrats! Gamr looks realy exiting.

@samyam I am a contributor to the godot game engine, I am happy to see more people using it. It has all the features I needed to replace unity for my purposes. I am curious, what features are you missing from unity?

This is a great video, love the portal idea. Earned my sub

Hmm I don't trust that Barji guy. Heard a rumor that he was the true mastermind behind the whole Unity snafu

hello please tell me how you fix this problem 3:34

Hi Sam, your videos are getting so much better nowadays and I hope you keep getting the views and attention you deserve!

You are brave, thank you!

this is a lot like the star wars pit droids game, loved that so much as a kid. didn't even know what star wars was at the time haha

Sam, how do you think GODOT would work in a more 3D environment with a floating origin? I am too deep into NTL to change gears but moving forward I would be interested if it can support this type of game for the sequel. Most of what I've seen is 2D stuff. The project is under my channel

"No Experience" yet the first statement is "I've been a Unity developer for 6 years." No experience suggests that you do not already have a background in game dev that would make the learning curve way easier.

Next try Godot 3D!

@samyam any chance you have a full youtube video with entire process? all miss-steps, etc.

we've been waiting for this

Nice video, and very beautiful dev 😊

You made an simple Lemmings clone :D

I kept switching from a 2D side scroller POV to an Overhead POV and it kept messing with my head when it comes to the Red Pointies of Death lol

So Lemmings? Oddworld.

popularity of godot day by day increasing, some companies using godot in mobile also in last years. I heard in social media GSS Match mobile game made by godot 4 :)

Where did you release this game? Looks interesting

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.

Until now I haven't used any game engines except Unity in 2021 for about 3 hours. Today my friend told me to get Godot. Literally two hours later I have a good quality platformer game. Holy sh*t Godot is good.

A Lemmings-like! Niceeeeeee ;D

Your videos are so insanely funny produced. Keep it up samyammmmmm

As a game dev who had worked with all 3 engines for a long time, godot is the best. Unreal and Unity really shot themselves in the foot. I'm really satisfied with godot and working on very big 3D games actually. Anyone who's interested are welcomed to the channel, I'll publish it soon.

hello Sam after all, which engine do you use if you want to create a game?

I think the time is coming . . . maybe an . . . U N R E A L video?

Samyam can you please make a mobile touch tutorial for a hypercausal game 😊

Nice Video, and thanks for showing your workings. You should post a full(ish) version where we can see all the code you used and such. Keep up the awesome work. I think I would like to try this engine out. Would you recommend learning python first? or just follow some good GD script tutorials like the course with your link?

Thanks for the video, awesome 👍