Why Godot made me RUN back to Unity 

Completely understandable. It's hard to drop multiple years of experience with one engine to move to another and suddenly you're back to square one. Unity still messed up big time. I'm definitely moving to Godot.

As Godot users have noted, it was only a few years back that Godot was primarily being compared to Game Maker, but now it's far surpassed Game Maker in terms of activity. The momentum behind the project is quickly reaching the kind of critical mass Blender got a few years back. The audience most likely to switch right now is mobile devs, and that is a pretty big deal. Mobile is still Unity's biggest market, and gaming's biggest market by revenue. Godot's earliest proprietary versions shipped small projects for low-end platforms(Wii, PSP, older Android versions), and so it has had, from very early on, a good grounding for what most mobile games need - the performance profile for typical scenes, the types of assets(UI, animations, etc.), and the specifics of how behaviors and interactions are added. Historically, Unity has just been slightly better for time-to-market than everyone else in that space, but not because of performance - it's because of the additional platform API support, asset store, and other conveniences. And while Godot is not yet ready to pull off something at the scope of Genshin Impact, if it gets more devs that push in the direction of higher performance, better platform support, more scripts and plugins, it could start to be a very close alternative in the next year or two.

I think the backlash against Unity was very healthy for the industry as a whole. It reminded the big guys that they can't get away with shenanigans. It highlighted to the other engines what their weaknesses are. It made game developers rethink some of their decisions hopefully for the better. That said, all of these things take time to shake out. In the short term I wouldn't be surprised to see many people go back to Unity but in the longer term it will bring more options and competition between engines which is a great thing.

I've been working in Unreal for quite a while and switched to Godot to see what the fuss was about. While it's current 3D workflow is unintuitive in many regards (especially coming from an engine so catered towards artists) it felt very snappy and satisfying to iterate and poke around in the engine itself. I found GDscript easier and quite a bit more satisfying to use than all the visual scripting I've done in Unreal. There are definitely rough edges and mainly in the 3D workspace, shaders and post processing in particular, and there could be a lot of ease-of-use improvements regarding asset work. But that's also what really pulls me towards Godot, and is a bit of a silver lining in this whole mess. The fact it's unfinished and rough means anyone can dig in and contribute to its improvement, especially now that so many new eyes have tried switching over. I personally have my hopes up for the little engine that could. Great video, great presentation, great points, definitely subscribing for future shenanigans.

Godot's biggest strength is it's accessibility, it's super easy and super quick to get your project going and iterating on it, but if you're already aquainted with another workflow the change will most likely slow you down

Two of my favorite things about Godot so far is its direct integration with Blender, you never need to export anything. It will directly sync with the project and update godot in real time with any changes. And the very powerful animation player, being able to run code from it is super useful when it comes to timing anything

We have been working with Unity for YEARS, when the Unity debacle started we decided to change the engine! And you know what? It was the best decision ever!

I'm a big fan of Godot and I plan on using it for years to come. Yet, I think it is important to point out the things it's not great at just yet.

Solid game plan at the end there. Being as engine agnostic as possible will provide stability that's fully based on your own ability rather than anyone's C Suite.

Thanks for this video. Professionally I work in Unity, but as an indie game dev I work in Godot. I have started porting my (at the time) Godot -based 3 game to 4.0 since it stopped crashing every five minutes (it was not even in alpha at the time) and I have worked way more hours than I'd want to admit to help nail various bugs in the engine (sometimes absolutely insane bugs that I couldn't make up). So I can tell you that the dev team (and contributors!) have done absolutely incredible work over the past couple years, pretty much rewriting the whole engine from scratch, to fix some core design limitations and build a new Vulkan-based renderer. The fact that Godot 4 is already pretty usable and you can make and publish games with it - is amazing, however - in my opinion it shouldn't be considered rock-solid or truly production-ready for around 2 years still (now maybe18 months, IDK). It's not a fault of the Godot developers, it's just nature of software development. After a near complete rewrite you have so many bugs big and small, that finding and squashing them all will take more work than Godot 4 had available. Hopefully the team will be able to hire some new people to work full -time thanks to the new donations.

Lol, as someone who has lost all interest in the short term for using Unity and has completely jumped into the Godot ship, the title of this video gave me a good chuckle. Loved the video loved your decision. With that said, having switched to Godot myself, I would love to see Godot content in the future. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you to do what makes you happy though 😉

Regardless of which game engine you choose for your games, Godot's dev experience is quite comfortable. There are some things you need to get used to and some things that are a bit rough, but it's honestly a neat piece of software with huge potential. It kind of takes me back to the Blender 2.8 days waiting for 2.9 to drop that made it amazing and hasn't stopped being amazing.

I 100% agree with you switching back to Unity if it better suits your project's needs, and the TOS is acceptable to you. I'm also a Unity dev and did annual engine evals in the past but stopped about 4-5 years ago because I became complacent and too comfortable in Unity. No longer. After all this blew up and I started looking at Godot, I also started a donation subscription to them. Even if I ultimately don't use Godot, It's my hope that Godot can become the Blender of GameDev in terms of quality and ease-of-use. I think we really need a viable Open Source option for commercial work. Godot Preview: It looks like you don't have a Camera 3D in the scene. If you add one, you should see a (Camera) preview tick box in each of the scene windows.

Very good take TJ! Regarding your project (first of your videos I watched): The whole working on a multiplayer game as a solo dev is bound to be a pain in the ass imho, but I only say this because I also have been there. Biggest pain point is that you need extra people for testing whether things are fun, as it is a multiplayer game. My take on doing game dev as a hobby (completely unrelated, just felt like sharing): - Having fun is the goal and the best indicator for whether we should change our approach. So even if I would never finish a single project in my life, it's fine if I had fun along the way. - Don't overstress, it's a hobby - Only ignore advice that is aimed at full time devs, if your goals don't align with full time devs. - The obvious thing is, that it doesn't have to be profitable monetarily, so advice regarding this can be ignored - BUT it still has to be mentally sustainable, which in my experience won't be the case for overscoped things like 3d multiplayer games. - You CAN have bloated technical scope, but you HAVE TO balance this with tiny scope of the gameplay (ie MMO is possible, as long as the gameplay is ultra simplistic 2d stuff). - I'm certain that more than 99.99% of game devs at some point abandon an overscoped project. The pain it induces is a valuable, necessary and apparently unavoidable lesson :D

As a software dev, I appreciate you sharing your experiences with both engines.

I'm all-in on Godot for my projects, but I 100% agree with your approach to moving the bulk of your work outside any engine and keeping all options open. I'm also doing the bulk of my work in Blender, and then using Godot to "preview" my assets.

Its nice to list all the shortcomings of godot right now. But I feel like it has some really nice advantages over unity. I did started godot after unity debacle and im amaze how polish it is for an open source engine. Signals are awesome. It is lightweight, good integration with vcs, script that doesnt take 30 second to build everytime you save a change (which drive me crazy on Unity). I port my 6 month old project from unity in a week and will not look back.

A very reasonable take, especially given the type of games you're making. Godot's fairly recent 4.0 release should be considered its first major attempt to make inroads into the 3D space. With many gamedevs fleeing from Unity now, I'm excitedly hopeful that Godot will only accelerate its development into 3D. For anything 2D, I'd argue that Godot has been unrivaled for quite some time now.

Godot is now refocusing on decoupling C# from GDScript with big boost to performance, and many other things. Already with 4.3 it's gonna be a much better engine, especially for unity refugees. And this time next year it's gonna be much much better. And really for 99% of games anyone makes, Godot is more than enough already now.

Yeah - you raise valid points through the video. Although I would a bit argue about the "Example 3D Project" in Godot. A lot about games goes to the quality of the assets used in it. If you use a very low-quality set of 3D assets in UE5, it will also make it look bad, even with all the Lumen and Nanite tech it has. I've basically started looking into Godot's 3D as a 3D Artist myself and it has some rough edges, but it also has some interesting options in it, like Shader's "Next Pass" being a default option in the inspector - which results in some really cool effects by combining shaders. The biggest drawback of Godot is probably Console Ports and Mobile deployment being more difficult, compared to Unity. Overall - yeah. Not the perfect engine, but it's surprisingly good for what it is.

1) Never feel bad for a decision that's right for you even if it's against the trend. 2) There's nothing in Unity multiplayer/networking structure that couldn't be ported elsewhere. You can always make the equivalent components on the new platform and then parse the Unity json scene files to copy the assigned structure. 3) If you want to make your networking platform agnostic, you will want to ditch the "idiotproof" high level implementations and work directly with low level yourself, serializing and deserializing data and picking transport layer. There's a steep learning curve but in the end it's very efficient and a breeze to troubleshoot and expand.

Coming from an art background, I spent a good deal of time on Unreal using visual scripting, but found it limiting because I lack proper understanding in programming. I moved to Unity and still had difficulty grasping fundamentals, then I started using Godot and suddenly things started connecting more easily. While it's shortcomings are easy to spot, I just find the application much more accessible to use so far. I'll probably pick a better engine when I grasp the fundamentals better, but for now I like what Godot has to offer. I think the lack of bloat just makes the program easier to work with for a beginner.

Godot will win eventually because it's not driven by greed.

Yeah this makes the most logical sense, everyone needs to look at their own situation. Also bro looking good with the lean cut

Just subscribed. I am a unity user myself, as a hobby game developer, I have always enjoyed the workflow and tools Unity provided. After the recent shenanigans,I decided to try out Godot, and so far I am taking a liking to it. I'll still develop in Unity, but I will also continue to learn Godot, and as it grows as an engine, I will grow and learn with it. (off topic, but would love to see a video of some of the "speedy, efficient" workflows you mentioned).

Excellent video! When I looked at the title I was like "oh, this guy is just trying to get back on the Unity train now that they went back on the bizarre fee". Boy I was wrong! Watched the entire video and you have your needs and reasons pretty well established. I respect that, I see you're going back with caution and you're not recommending everyone to come back either but presenting options! Thanks for sharing your experiences and decisions.

It was fun seeing your experiments on twitter ( x ), wish you the best of luck! im for sure going to keep watching your videos :)

Great video. Thanks for sharing your experiences and thoughts here. You're doing great work.

I'm a Godot dev and I enjoyed your video, the way you explain the situation was really smart and well organized, I saw your point perfectly reasonable, even seems that instead of just thought this is best/worse/good/bad you created a plan, with its A and B options, that's so cool and different than other videos I saw. I hope that Godot growing will bring new things to the dev scene.

Glad you gave Godot the college try! It’s the engine I use but as said it’s a tool and you should use the one that fits what you’re doing. Keep it up and hopefully you don’t have to fully jump ship but if you do, we’re ready for you to join the collective 😆

Good take. I think the walk back has meant that current projects will ship in unity but the next wave of projects is going to be much more interesting

Super good video. Love your natural approach

Me and my brother discussed this quite a bit and had a lot of the same conclusions. I dont enjoy C++ and GODOT just isnt there yet. But the best part of all of this is that GODOT is going to get the attention and funding it needs to start becoming a competitor sooner then it would have been otherwise, so thats exciting at least.

I do want to point out about the debugging thing, what with Godot making the running instance separate from the editor. There is a PR about making a more Unity-like behaviour (instead of having to use remote tree and camera override all the time) but as far as I'm aware it'll never be quite like Unity due to Godot keeping instances separate from the editor, so if your game crashes, it doesn't crash the editor (useful since you end up running individual scenes often which may try to do something that requires a reference or something that messes you up) The craziest thing about this situation is the timing. Godot 4 has been out officially for... less than a year! If this happened 1 or 2 years ago, it would have been an absolute disaster, but now there's more confidence in "Oh this is rough around the edges, but it's going to get there, there is a clear path". Also there are some very impressive 3D demos in Godot 4 (I think Wojek Pe? Did some good ones during the alphas/betas), you picked dissimilar art styles for your examples.

The issue with Godot not having a realtime viewer in editor is compensated with the lightning fast launch times (although if you're computing a lot of stuff it gets longer)

I could never get into Unity when i started out but Godot just clicked for me, now I've worked with it for a while and Godot's workflow is great for me, especially in 2D. The Godot 4 Tilemap editor is great and GDScript is just fun and easy to use :)

Godot's demo projects are meant to be simple, to show a proper starting point. If you want to see how good it can get, there are lots of projects around RU-vid to check.

I’ve never seen a gamedev so ripped as this dude lol. Anyways, sub earned.

I have been using Unity3d for 6 years and this fee things did make me more aware of other game engine. Godot is great game engine, but I am aware it still not at the place where I could make longer project, practice with DOTS, or port to console. I am using both though Unity3d and Godot.

Unity devs got saved with the last unity announcement (they went back on what they said), hope one mistake is enough for them... I really don't want to switch engines.

This whole thing made me download Unreal and take a serious look at it. I've been working in Unity for 12 years now. I sell assets on the store. But man... Unreal feels like a major upgrade. For a whole host of reasons, Unreal feels like a professional environment and now, looking back at Unity, at the risk of sounding condescending or something (and I don't mean too), after spending some time in Unreal, Unity just feels like a less mature environment. I know how that sounds. But you should give Unreal a serious look.

Definitely a good video. I am working on a game in Unity that I’m calling Stories from the Backrooms, and knowing that Godot is a good option helps a lot. Thank you!

Awesome video friend. Also that is an awesome name you've got there. Its fun looking at this 7 months later. I am a long time Godot dev because in my real life I am a Linux engineer. I like OSS. I really appreciate you views best of luck with unity. I think people should use the tools they like and work for them.

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and state of mind. 👌

Actually, my first game engine is godot, but I find it really hard to grasp the main context. Then I use Unity, everything seems natural like the way they should be. I like the concept of GameObject, such fleksible and solid concept.

Well said brother. Great video.

Broooo come on, I just started learning Unity and u already telling me that this engine will die 😭

for the unity asset store, this has been touched by some youtubers on the topic and I looked at the EULA multiple times. You can use unity assets bought/downloaded from the Unity asset store as long as it does not say "None Standard License" If it says standard licenses you can use it on any other engine or project. Unreal has the same rule except the only time you cannot use their assets from their market place if it was made by EPIC, and it will say that in gold lettering on the asset on the right side in the asset page. Epic even stated this in their FAQ. Of course this does not apply to Meta Humans or Quixel Bridge as those things can only be used for the unreal engine legally.

This seems like one of the most logical choices to do I see on the internet. If this video gets lots of dislikes that will only say a lot about the "game dev" community.

i'm making a UI heavy app. No need for 3d. When i learned that Godot 3.5 can export to the big 4 when using C# ... i started to move my project from unity to Godot today and it's great. All my C# logic just works. And the UI is better in Godot than unity... so for my project it's the right choice. Pick the engine that suits your project. If Unity is the one that fit your needs, then use that. You pay 2K pr year if you earn more than 200K. you pay 2.5% of what you earn over 1 million. .. sure, it's a cost but it's not the end of the world if your game make bank like that. If you want the best 3d, unreal is the only choice. Unity will not catch up in years to come. Godot for 2d, light 3d and UI. Flax engine for... maturing a few more years. lol. But yes, let's get more to choose to choose from. Nothing wrong with using Unity if that is what suits your project but if it's because you scare to learn something new, then that's not a good argument ;)

Appreciate the book recommendation, i started reading it then forgot to finish your video 😊 Finishing it now, cheers

How are you so well articulated, subscribed for sure

10:36 In terms of art-assets, as I understand it you can use the majority of Assets from the Unity-Asset-Store in other Engines. Games from Scratch has a video on the specifics. So its not like you are stuck with Unity because you have a lot of assets from their store

Appreciate the well-balanced discussion on this. Godot has been really tempting, especially because it's such a light program. But I think, with my programming background and having touched both Unity and Unreal before - in the words of Jaws, I think I need a bigger boat than Godot, at least one that I can trust to be more stable and mature for now.

00:00 🎮 Unity faced backlash for proposed changes, leading some developers to explore alternatives like Godot. 04:49 🔄 Unity remains preferable for experienced developers due to established workflows and advanced features like Burst Compiler. 08:06 📈 Supporting Godot's development fosters healthy competition and encourages engine innovation. 10:38 🛠 Minimize engine dependency by writing engine-agnostic code and diversifying asset sources. 12:01 🤔 Unity's reversal of changes isn't enough; trust can be regained through transparent policies and respect for developers' concerns.

What do you use for blender exporting? I'd like to also do animation in blender but it's always a pain getting them into Unity this way.

I think it really depends on what you're doing with the project and if you've already got a good start on it in Unity. I will certainly be considering Godot FIRST for any project, and using an old version of Unity if Godot will not handle my needs. Like you, I will not be buying any more Unity Assets (of which I have at least $10k worth), and I will never upgrade to 2023 LTS or beyond.

I was about to move to Unreal, and the main reason was that it was obvious that Unity wanted to implement a spy code in game builds that will count and report all installs of а game, no matter whether they are installs from stores or pirated ones. The 2nd reason was the "3 days login" requirement, which obviously is made to spy developer's activity in the editor and will cause a lot of problems when for some reason we haven't an internet access. Fortunately they renounced these evil intentions and I will continue with Unity editor.

Unity definitely has the advantage in terms of just how many things it can do due to how long its been around. I made a project in Godot and noticed that some features that I thought were standard, weren't so and had to work around it.

good opinion. Smart direction to take as well. Good luck and thank you for your perspective

Your strategy for your assets, along with Godot’s amazing foreign function interface that allowed the addition of C# as a Godot scripting language, is pretty solidly thought out. You convinced non-artsy me to bite the bullet and learn Blender first. I figure Unity won’t change their policy for at least two years, three tops, which is the golden window for Godot to get to 85% unity capable so that porting from Unity is even easier. They need to adopt code from other OSS software that runs faster than theirs, give them credit, and hopefully recruit the maintainers. My key requirement is easy Virtual Reality implementation: you’re gonna have to bite the bullet on the controller interfaces, but making a camera change to a VR camera as easy as setting a flag or a subroutine call at runtime is pretty much what I am looking for. A well thought out argument, with good advice on agnostic asset purchasing and development! So far, you’re getting much love and no flames. Thanks for the boot to learn Blender!

I'm curious to hear more about the 3D limitations you have noticed in Godot. Were you using 3.5 or 4? I only ask because I know that Godot 4 made a LOT of improvements for 3D games.

This is totally on point. Awesome vid! :)

Most videos about Unity for the past 3 weeks has just been profiting on something big with no though put in but you sat down and explained to the masses. Thanks

give it another year and godot 3d will get so good. they just released 4.0 and currently they are mostly focused on bug fixes. Once they are done, Juan is gonna start focusing on improving the 3d renderer, with more advance ray tracing and stuff.

nice biceps bro

I love Godot, especially as a Linux user. Unity works in my distro, but not very well. Godot on the other hand worked like a charm from the moment I downloaded it. Granted, I'm not doing very fancy stuff, so for me, Godot is well enough capable. Also, I don't use C# in Godot, so I don't know how well that works compared to GDScript. And I haven't tried out Godot in Windows yet, so I can't speak of that experience. I like your measured approach and willingness to see good and bad with both Unity and Godot. Too many people are either "Godot only" or "Unity only". I like what you said about a game engine being a tool. It's the same way with programming languages. There is never wrong to learn a new language, even if one doesn't use it everyday or even if it's not "popular". More tools in one's toolbelt is always good. I use to ask people who love to bicker about "the best" language or game engine, "What is better, a hammer or a screwdriver?" People look at me funny, but my point is that they are both good, but they have different use cases. I think one reason why some people might not like Godot is GDScript, because it resembles Python too much, and apparently, there are many people who doesn't like Python. As an aside, my three go-to favourite languages are all hated within swathes of the programming community: Java, PHP and Python. :)

I know it can't be compared to Unity or even Godot but would you mind giving your opinion about the C# Stride engine?

I've studied Unity for the past 6 months and after Unity's decision, I'm switching to Godot. I've been learning it and I'm glad that most knowledge gets transferred to it. So if you are just starting, maybe Godot is the answer, it's only going to get better.

Frankly, I'm still too confused to know WTF to think on the Unity policy changes _or_ the backlash, things seem to still be developing and changing REALLY really quickly. But I do know I'm primarily Team C#, and I also feel (perhaps or perhaps not justifiably) averse to having to learn a whole 'nother API; that's always seemed like a pretty big cost to switching engines/frameworks/codebases/whatever-else-you-build-on-top-of no matter what you're changing from or to.

Appreciate the even-handedness of your thoughts on this. Should have expected it from a fellow PSUer! I've been toying with the idea of hobby game dev for a couple years now (having moved into management over a decade ago) as a way to stay in touch with development. You earned a new subscriber.

great video! this will help others struggling with the same situation

Apparently assets that are not made by unity or unreal from their stores can be legally used in other engines. Unless asset has custom license, they both have that mentioned in their respective licenses

First: good video, I know it has been done from respect and persponal honest experinece. Second: the problem with Unity is not what they do now, and as a young person I know it's hard to take into account things that happened in the past, but with more than 23 years on my back I can tell you what's happening with Unity from my own POV (it may be the reality or it may be skewed, who knows) The problem with Unity is that they demonstrated that in the very second they want to change things anbd force any company to pay a ton of money more, they can do so, if they want to change the rules up to the point that it's not super horrible but horrible enough to put you in trouble, they can do so, and you can do nothin, so in the end the problem with Unity is not the engine, which is fantastic in many things, the problem with Unity is that the company cannot be trusted, and when you say that you cannot plan ahead to three years, wll if you want to produce a medium game you have to plan ahead to three years, it's a need, not an option, and with that in mind you cannot risk Unity changing their license again at mid way and make you to pay a ton or to loose your main work tool. Imagine that they remove the free tier and they rises up the subs price to 500€ / month, absurd, right? well, it is, but they CAN actually do that, it was absurd to remove the mid tier license, but they did it, in the same way they did many absurd things, so the main question is not wether or not Godot is better than Unity or not (being one of the first windows users of Unity I can tell you that the conversation at that time was the same but against engines that many people don't know the name of because the license price was not for individuals or indies). The question is: can you trust your life work and your project to Unity as a company? Now think about the true costs of starting a project today with Unity and being forced to shift in two years with the project being near the release, also think the costs of having to maintain a game made with Unity (like ffixign it, released improvements and extension) but with licensing conditions that may be draconian. So the question is: are you willing to take the risk and put your work, your company and your life in the hands of a company like Unity? If you answer is YES, then go ahead, no questions asked. If you answer is NO, while your resoning is interesting and honest I would review that reasoning. Just a heads up, not a roast or anything, as I said at the beggning, good video :)

thanks TJ for sharing you thoughts on both engines. I saw your PC spec but wondering if you could share more on your desktop setup? I am quite interested in your monitor and the light bar, microphone, webcam etc. It would be great if you could also share your Unity working flow tips you mentioned why you decided to stick with Unity. thanks in advance for your time

One of the most honest and on point reviews I have seen yet so far. Thanks

The live code aspect of GDScript is 90% the only reason I considered Godot. It's such a great feature they should emphasise. In Unity I use 'Fast Script Reload' an opensource equivilent. It's flaky and only works 70% of the time, but it's amazing when it does.

Clickbait title, but a very measured take. There are some legitimate reasons to remain with Unity at the moment (especially if you are mid-development). Godot is getting better and better all the time, and several of the features you mentioned are already in the works. I'm sure the increased funding from this whole fiasco will help too.

Great video I enjoy listening to this man talk, are you going to keep working on Tavern game?

When I saw this video show up, I actually laughed out loud... because you're right. Good and well thought up video. Cheers, man.

ive used unity for 3 years and have one game on steam made in it, but i also spent a week in godot and like it alot! so im at a cross roads and not sure how to continue

The only thing that annoys me about Godot is the delayed compile of my scripts. That is better in Unity at the moment which is why I use Unity to debug, or rather prepare, my code before I move to Godot.

Are you recording this on the camera of the first phone I owned?

Synty store seems awesome! Is it engine-agnostic? Because I've decided to take a swing at making my own game engine, and would love am asset store I can still use.

For a true feel for what Godot can do, look for Leaden Sky 2: being made in Godot 3.5. Devmar is making Penitent in Godot 4: www.youtube.com/@actualdevmar The engine can do the job, the art takes work.

Would be glad to see you using Godot! But really can't imagine moving all the progress from engine to engine. Also for me the Godot was a lot more stable and faster, not a single crash for more than a year, renaming and etc. is instant. And it weights like 100mb!!! But yeah, it lacks some things. Like asset preview, it's just crazy. But there is an addon that fixes it! The community is really strong and the engine becomes better really fast.

I am still using Unity, is true the trust is shook, although new policy is fine, I am still using v2022 at the moment. Godot v4.1.1 is not complete yet, mobile development is not ready, as many said, hopefully Godot can be as good open source as Blender. Godot has bugs reported since 2017 still not yet resolved until today as I am writing this post, some member in the discord also replied very rough when asked why this 2017 bugs still not being resolved and asking us to fix the bugs. Nothing is perfect, to me under Unity for years, I never encounters such feedback in the community channels. Is good to learn up Godot as backup engine, when the mobile development is ready, I think is a good tool to have, in case UE or Unity may change policy in the future.

How long did it take to make that backlash collage? Lol. What software did you use?

Unity screwing their devs was the best thing that could have happened to Godot, and therefore for game developers in general. I think the momentum will not slow down any time soon and Godot is bound to grow exponentially in the next couple years. The more developers who have games built in the engine, the more contributors there will be to further build the engine. Many new systems will be born out of necessity for developers in the next little while (many I'm sure to replicate the behaviors that people have gotten used to in Unity) and these will of course just further increase the ceiling of what Godot is capable of.

damn bro ur jacked 💪

Thanks, I'll use Godot a lot now on, but mostly for project and I'll stay on Unity for my most depending one. That way I'll be able to keep up with the Godot Updates and git gud while still using Unity!

I’m not a developer, I just like playing games, and came here following Slopes Game Room video on the whole saga. I saw this video title and thought “oh here we go, who’s this Unity simp…?” But actually it was a really enjoyable and well balanced video, and you brought up a load of really good points. Good luck with your developing in the future 👍🏻

Godot 4+ is a plus-plus specially for both easier visual scripting and better 2D project potentials (although Unity has arsenal of tools unlike Godot but some of these locked behind paywalls), while UE 5.3 is now a standard game engine for all types of 3D projects (indie~AAA) due to both Nanite and Lumen that further boosts game performance (making even low-end platforms/devices enable to run and play those AAA UE5.3 games) And as future indie dev, I want both of these game engines depending on dimension of my future projects (2D or 3D). I was supposed to test both Godot and Unity to find out which is better for my 2D projects until I found out about Unity drama. *English isn't my main language so it is what it is 😅* Note: Be careful of those mobile cashgrabs (most of these made in Unity) because these were worse than our mobile nostalgic games back then

Good video, but I also think you can make good looking 3D games in Godot. Yes, it is true that it is easier to just do it in Unity, but Godot's 3D is getting better, which is actually really cool. As a game developer beginner, I really liked watching your perspective and I'm really glad I started learning using Godot and GDScript.

I've just finished porting the Wave Function Collapse script that I wrote after getting some pointers trough your roguelike video from unity to godot!

Thank you for the feedback.

if u want to make a gread 2d or 2.5 games, godot is good for it. but if u want a very realistic or semi realistic 3d game, go for unreal. godot is good for 3d but some 3d quality still need to updates, so if u still want to use godot for 3d u can wait for another version because each update of godot has massive improvements

Eggs, basket etc.. learn all the things!

Really level headed analysis. Cheers.

it makes sense. great video!