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Godot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (blog.odorchaidhe.games)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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this seems a well-argued article to me the 'General directionless development' seems the most concerning point, I don't think the 'let's go with what the community ask\want' model is gonna work in the end.

what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Over the past week, I’ve looked hard at Godot as a potential alternative to Unity in the wake of the disastrous Unity pricing model change.

As a professional engineer (or a former one), I cannot give my professional opinion of this engine after such little time with it, even with source code access. I admit I have not run a single profiler, I have not exported a single build. I have skimmed less than 10% of the source code. I have played around in GDExtensions, but not in anger. I have not tried C# at all.

  1. Poor Performance

This is, again, a huge topic, and I don’t want to make hard claims without hard data. To be absolutely crystal clear, I have not profiled Godot nor worked on a complete enough and representative project in Godot to observe performance issues firsthand.

Apparently everyone and his dog needs to write about Godot right now after taking a passing look at it because it is hot shit at the moment?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm dying at this.

As a professional engineer (or a former one), I cannot give my professional opinion of this engine after such little time with it, even with source code access.

What do they think this blog post is? A diary entry?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A whole new genre was created: Unity customers being upset feel their career is in danger write nonsense blog posts about other engines to make them feel better.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It's free real estate.

(It's a game engine, FREE. / It's a free game engine for you, Jim. Well you gotta bring code and assets, but the engine is free. / It's a 2D and 3D engine, it's got Vulkan in the backend)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Poor Performance

Godot actually runs on my shitty laptop, what are these people using, literal potatoes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@DJSpunTheDisc @anteaters counterpoint, unity editor is unusable to linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm saying godot runs better than unity (when it comes to development) so this rather improves our points lol.