Godot wants to thank Unity Technologies for it's generous support
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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TIL Godot is on Steam. Huh, will you look at that.
What's GODOT?
It's an open source game engine. People tend to consider it as a replacement for Unity when it come to 2D game development.
hey it's 3d is pretty decent too!
you won't be making aaa games with it anytime soon but it's really good for 99% of tasks
For indie game development in general as of Godot 4.
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While the numbers themselves are just a small fraction of actual usage (as I guess most people using it don't do it thru steam), it doubled in about a week.
What would be an "educated" guess of steam/non-steam users ratio? 1:50? 1:100?
What is Godot?
It's a free and open source game engine a bit like Unity. https://godotengine.org/
I use it and I think it is quite nice.
Awesome- hopefully more money will get put into the development fund as well. It is rather small yet.
Is there any reason to install it via steam and not just via the official site?
Maybe auto updates?
I don't use the Steam version because it locks my steam library when I'm coding.
- edit: yeah, that update thing @MJBrune@beehaw.org mentions too 😀
It increased.
Godot is free and open source Steam is not. Learn the difference. Steam is just as Unity if not worst.
Why would Steam be worse than Unity? You are mixing things together. Steam Hosts FOSS for free as far as I know - how is this a bad thing in your eyes?
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam
Unity is a game engine, Steam is some bullshit market place that locks other software behind all sort of junk like drm. As far as i know Unity doesn't promote gambling to kids
Well… don’t use Steam then.
As far as i know Unity doesn’t promote gambling to kids
Install some freemium game that's using Unity ads and be prepared to get inundated by gambling ads
Install some freemium game that’s using Unity
No thanks i only play libre games