Unity Game Engine Alternatives 

please do a unity to godot tutorial

Idea for part 2 (I really hope to see second part for this video with even more game engines to choose from) Armory engine might be pretty neat for 3d modelers who also wanna make some games

What did Cryengine do to get skipped like this?

Hello, "big fan of game engines". Show at least one project that you have done, what do you worship there? Most likely, you're just a populist who superficially understands what your mouth is talking about.

@@sadscientisthououinkyouma1867 I know, right? They don't push updates with great frequency, but they also don't publish broken updates (unlike a number of engines starting with "U"). It's also beautiful, feature-rich and battle-tested. Definitely deserves a spot here.

Haha, yeah, I was born for this moment I suppose ;)

Mike waiting for this moment his whole life, kudos to Mike.

​@@gamefromscratchyou are the chosen one my friend😂❤🎉

​@@gamefromscratchindeed 😅

It's show time 😎

Honestly working with Godot and gdscript feels awesome, and it's nice to know it's open source and constantly improving.

It’ll be a long process having to relearn on a new engine, but I think it’s for the better.

This is the way!

I really like that open source and free software are growing in popularity. There are plenty of unknown free and open source gems that are worth knowing about.

@ Look out debeers, open gems is coming for you.

the indie market is growing so much, and unreal keeps adding so many features that makes development faster they know a game will break out and make serious money.

It's not open source becoming more popular. It's just when you are doing gamedev everything is already pretty much complex and combines too many fields (audio, 3d animation, rendering, physics, UI, storytelling, etc) So having an open source engine helps you understand how exactly somethin is implemented and find examples in engine code. Also since it's a very complex area engine devs can make mistakes too. When something goes wrong you can make sure is your tool faulty or you made a mistake. Also you can edit your engine however you want, see valorant for example. They are using a custom version of unreal engine to have better optimization, etc

It's not, open source is just king in these types of niches. It still goes relatively unnoticed

Really! Godot's 3D was pretty hit-or-miss in 3.x, but as of 4, JESUS CHRIST they've come a long way!

yep like Blender. It eventually became a good alternative standard.

yup gamemaker sucks now. it used to be best for 2D games long time ago. Untill they released GMS2 and it went downhill from there

Literally theyre using a really good game engine to advertise a "gaming browser" thing.

Thats... a very bold claim. The only controversy I can remember was the switch to the subscription model which only affected new users iirc. Or am I missing comething? Not saying that the change isn't shitty. I'm also not a fan of paying a subscription for software, but it's really not as bad as people make it out to be. Since Opera took over it seems more like they really stepped up their game with fixes, adding features and the frequency of updates. There is also now a free version with all features you can use indefinitely (you need a subscription to build/export your game tho). Cheapest license is 5$ a month (or 50$ a year). If you want you could just use the free version, then buy the subscription once just to build/export your game, then cancel the sub. You don't have to pay any royalties / they don't take a cut from your profits. GameMaker is a good Engine, but there are also good (and better) alternatives. In the end, the best Engine is the one that *clicks* with you and is the easiest for you to work in.

@@Funcestor Ugh I wrote a whole comment elaborating earlier but apparently youtube deleted it because I accidentally turned gx dot games into a url. I'll give my complaints again. They did only apply the subscription to new users, but that's because it's all they're legally allowed to do. They did try making it so subscribers get updates faster than people with permanent licenses. They clearly aren't happy with the fact that people already have licenses. While the subscription isn't too expensive, I think it's safe to say it'll add up to a price increase over time for the majority of users. Gamemaker was already at a disadvantage by charging money when the alternatives are generally more powerful and free for most people. I've found their integration of the aforementioned website to be pretty obnoxious. They set it as the default export platform on every new project. It's not hard for me to get rid of, but it's certainly a point of confusion for new users, and it's kind of a slap in the face every time I get excited to run something for the first time and have to close it out, change it, and compile again. I emailed them about it and they said they'd change it, then they didn't. It shows that when given a choice between user experience or some vague possibility of a profit, there's no question for them. Gamemaker has way fewer features than unity, unreal, or godot. It doesn't do 3d, importing files is clunky, git is clunky, the level editor is missing basic QOL stuff, there's only one programming language and it's not very efficient... it's just hard to deny that it's not a very powerful or feature-rich engine. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but even if opera could be trusted completely, I don't see any way I could recommend that someone pays for gamemaker rather than using another engine for free. Why would you? It's slightly easier to a basic project up and running than in other engines, but that only matters for the first few days. You're just paying a lot more money for a lot less engine, from a company who has given us absolutely no reason to trust them.

@@Funcestor and it makes random x and y drives on your system while it's running. who DOES that?

You're so right yet so wrong at the same time.

Unity seems to be very hit and miss when it comes too being for indie devs. It use to be #1 way back before ue4 existed and too me having a concrete foundation when it comes to support and staying true too there words and knowing that a company like unity who use to be very solid it now makes me not want to even touch unity even tho I had a massive project on the backburner that unless they do a massive overhaul of the pricing and contracts for developers I won't even touch unity

​@@wildrelicproductions4879just like RU-vid...they get bad features and the things that made it good are now gone and replaced with bullshit and we have to move on to another one, bur that other one is even worse than RU-vid and in the end we have to return to RU-vid although bad as it sounds. This is the problem with capitalism and monopoly and corporations: greed and pride.

@@altongames1787 Right. That's when people confuse politics with technology.

There always was I think, Unity itself began as an, much cheaper, alternative to Unreal, later Unity shined on Mobile. But now? Unreal became way more accessible. Yes, there are many technicalities in difference, but I feel the major one was always the license between the two. This is huge

Can you tell me more about your usage? C3 is my engine, I'm also a web dev, but I script visually. What have you been able to achieve? 2d shaders? Spawn mechanics in code? Let me know!

@@flannelbeard4621 I'm coding a lot of the logic for the game in JS/Typescript. It's much more scalable and easier to maintain than huge event sheets. People don't know that Construct is a really good JS engine first and foremost. A lot of times I'll do input and basic collision checks in event sheets but then cal exported JS functions. This is great with games that have upgrade mechanics, complex logic. Check out the scripting reference for Construct 3 on the site. The other huge advantage is I can give the docs to ChatGPT and generate code too. Hard to do that with event sheet.s

Alternative to love2d (lua) : MonoGame (C#)

DragonRuby and Love2D are frameworks

I looked into this yesterday and it looks great, but didn't seem like anyone uses it. Would be nice if there was more RU-vid content about it.

​@@bobbyjones-uv5cnThe lack of console support and slower updates make me hesitant to use Stride. Flax seems perfect... except it has no 2D support. It looks like Defold might be my best option, tho I don't really want to use Lua script. Or maybe I use Godot and hope they sort out the cross platform stuff by the time I need it.

@@supercyclone8342 I'm using godot now.

Seconded. Would also like to know for my new godot game.

Yeah from what I've read apparently runtime asset loading is kind of limited and finicky rn at least if said assets aren't already in the game files obviously though I haven't actually done anything with custom stuff in godot yet so it would be a good video idea to make

There's a plugin that allows people to mod your godot game, you can even incorporated it in your game to make modding easier

​@@mr_sauce_cooksSuch suspense. An unnamed plugin. [INCEPTION SOUND EFFECT] Out to save Godot developers from pulling their hairs out from having to implement modding themselves. [INCEPTION SOUND EFFECT]It can be found online. [INCEPTION SOUND EFFECT] But what to search for? COMING SOON

​@@mr_sauce_cooks what's it called?

plus, coding on it is SO enjoyable, and none of that Mono crap, it's straight up a .Net integration. The downside in my opinion is that it hasn't been long that they added the community license, so there aren't a lot of tutorials out there, but i've been able to find more and more, and the docs seem to be good

do the old physics samples run in new version? unigine had fabulous physics demos

@@rawformulagames3483 There is new version 2.17. I didn't tried phys in new version yeat. I do mostly 3D stuff.

No reason to support freeloaders

@@LanciaSiluri????

​@@LanciaSiluriwhat?

@@LanciaSilurithat’s insulting and rather quite a shallow minded statement.

This is my choice. Godot is so overrated.

And Unreal has its own extensive asset store. Not as big yet, but it probably will be in time.

@@TheAwesomeKielbasa you right to. The point is: I think about. To learn Unreal will be a better choice. okay, here i have C# but a very less community i think. hm. Also no good Assets like Sky systems or other in range. and graph Editors make me 100% full of panic :( i am a coding type, i really cant do anything with node based graph trash

I have linked to follow up posts on every video I mentioned. Honestly if I had gone into depth with each, this would be a 9 hours long video ;)

@@gamefromscratch I didn't mean go into depth on either! I just meant I think it would've been a more useful background to the narration, than the sites.

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Yeah I just downloaded it this weekend and I really like it, the only thing that I am a bit unsure about is the whole GPL license requiring I release my code publicly but I do really like the engine and want to make some cool games with it.

Maybe Love2d (lua) or MonoGame (C#) are better?

Yeah, Flax is basically an Unity clone. There was also Shiva3d by some other devs, but I don't know the status of it.

Where to start with Flax? Any tutorials?

From my time with Flax it feels like a cross between Unity and Unreal and that's a nice place to be! It works great and feels great, but still under heavy development so it can be buggy at times but the community is great and welcoming so that goes miles when dealing with issues.

Personally, the absence of visual scripting is what keeps me from going to Godot. This is the only thing Godot lacks to be an ultimate game engine.

@ Problem is that was a wilful choice, not a we can't do that.

Okay first of all I do hope they may reconsider the fee And secondly what's wrong with subnautica that's a fun game

There is literally no reason at all for Subnautica not to be on Unity, wtf bro. I think stating things without proofs and without considering the history of the developers, the programming language they masters and their proficience with the engine they used is way worse than using Unity "by default".

Genuine curiosity, what do you think would be a good bet for a voxel game with 3d model characters, spells, lots of movement abilities including vehicles, while being multiplayer? I've been wanting to use Unity with things from the asset store to make it less work, but even then it seems like a lot. There's only a few voxel assets available, and performance is near the top of the list. (It needs to be able to host 20-50 players.) I was thinking of things with ECS/DOTS, burst compiling, and so on, and I don't know what else can compete on that front.

​@@Aeroxima Unity would be pretty strong on this one with ECS, but you can also have extremely performant ECS with Bevy for example, or maybe using MonoGame if you need to code in C#, as it is very "low-level" you can tune it to match at least a good ammount of your performance needs.

@@diadetediotedio6918 I fear that those would be more challenging, and it's already on the border of "too ambitious for me" as is. I'll keep them in mind. (Thanks for the quick response!)

Is it actually easy to use? I haven't done game dev in a while but this whole unity spectacle has me wanting to learn Bevy because I've since taken the Rust pill. Have you any experience with it?

Yes @@OverbiteGames, I've been experimenting with the Stride engine for the past couple of months, and I must say, it's quite impressive. It might not have all the bells and whistles of Unity, but it is a solid alternative in my opinion. Additionally, it's built using C# as its main language, which makes it even more appealing. Plus, it is under MIT license, which is a nice bonus.

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question so, he does mention Stride but how similar is it to unity in terms of workflow? obviously its not gonna be exactly the same given unity has had more time to mature but would it be reasonable enough to port my current game into without having to struggle too much with reworking everything?

@@bing_crilling8981 it felt very similar, at least when I last used it in 2019 it's the same object-component structure and similar naming conventions so it's easier to migrate to than say Unreal where there is a few days of re-learning where everything is

@@bing_crilling8981 I quite like stride, but I think their UX is very very very terrible. If they enhance it maybe in the future the engine could be usable

Can't wait for more tutorials!

If I remember correctly they have a similar pricing structure to unity's old pricing structure

@@gladiumcaeli This seems to be the case, I've also reached out to them to see what their plans are for gaming. I really need that WebGL and eventually console support.

@@ThatGamePerson ohh I see, hopefully they do add those features, can you imagine if all of unity's market place assets makes it over in unigine? that would be amazing

Unigine is russian product. Please, do not support the terrorist. They live and pay taxes in russia, these taxes then convert to their military budget. Their army kills my friends and destroy my city. I am just a random game developer and I am just want to do my job without missiles over my head and permanent anxiety, just like you.