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I wonder why Godot and Unreal are getting so much interest today (lemmy.today)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 173 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I can't believe Godot surpassed Unreal in interest. Astonishing moment.

I really hope Godot becomes the Blender of game engines.

[–] danwardvs 92 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is a funny analogy because Blender was a game engine at one point and failed.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was decided that game engine development was over complicating the goal of Blender. It detracted from actual 3D software development resources and trying to make all blender features seamless with it was nearly doubling potential work.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe in the open-source world, this is called "mission creep". It means when a project gradually expands its scope and mission until it becomes unmaintainably broad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Difference to scope creep (Systemd)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like Systemd, my services and timers are huge improvements over trying to use SysV and Cron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also git diff feature-creep?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I really want a game staring the default cube now.

The final boss would of course be a doughnut.

[–] danwardvs 26 points 11 months ago

Default Cube is a playable character in Super Tux Kart, although unofficially through a user created addon which can be downloaded through the game’s addon feature.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not Suzanne the monkey?

Also, it's not 3D, but you may like 140, where you play as a square that turns into a circle when jumping. It's actually a great game, like a decomposition of what it means to be a platformer.

[–] captain_aggravated 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have a hypothesis: People have heard of Unreal but haven't heard of Godot, they see folks talking about it and go "What's that" and google it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It would be great if a portion of them decided to dip their toes into game development too since it's free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You just described what I did just before reading this comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've considered "what does the download/install look like" before realizing "You've had Blender installed and passively updating for months [pacman] without using it. Stop that"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I mean if you just got fucked over by a proprietary engine then why go for another one. People are delusional if they think Unreal is a safe option.