Steam

The Humble Bundle sale is also helping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

A doubling of usage amongst steam users is probably representative of a large uptake of Godot overall

Can confirm. I use Godot and didn't even know it was on steam

What does that even mean? People using gui tools?

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Yes

It support 3D, but I think Vulkan is in Godot 4. I'm not sure how mature it's. In Godot 3, it only support OpenGL.

yes

1. Yes, not a great as Unity but it's still pretty good especially after they switched to Vulkan over OpenGL. VR performance still could use some work though.
2. Yes, PBR materials are fully supported. Actually one of the earlier things in 3D that was implemented, and then imoroved
3. Yes, now I don't know if HAVOK has a Godot plugin but there is a Jolt physics plugin that's designed to be plug-and-play, with a few exceptions (it doesn't suppory soft bodies afaik)

I'm assuming for automatic updates. Just like some people do with Blender.

I suppose it's the easiest way to try it out.

I wouldn't use it long-term, because you don't want Godot to update without you knowing, if there's something that needs to be changed due to an update. I bet a few people noticed the update from 3.x to 4.x..

I've read it also doesn't come with the C# support, so that's one reason not to use Steam for it if you're interested in testing that side.

If you're on Windows, it's an easy way to auto-update. If you're on Linux, there is no need for that.

I use it on steam, for this exact purpose. So it shows in using it. The more people are using it, the more people get aware of it.

If all these people downloaded it directly and not from steam, this post wouldn't exist :)

Auto updates is interesting, didn't even consider it, but it can be both a pro and a con I guess...

Now that you mention it it's kinda weird it isn't. When our phones, servers, infrastructure, social networks, chat apps and even AI are all open source why are games all still built on proprietary software?

GPL forces modifications to be best put upstream. Godot is MIT, which usually doesn't get the same effect

The free, open source game engine everyone should have been using and contributing to this whole time but noooOOOooo.

It's an open source game engine. People tend to consider it as a replacement for Unity when it come to 2D game development.

yup, thats steamDB, I do wonder how many devs installed it via DL from the site or other ways

Theres no official pronounciation

The most common ones are guh-dough & go-dough (+ other variations) with the t silent, but the lead developer as well as a bunch of others call it go-dot and some people put the d in the first syllable instead to do things like god-oo

Q&A with devs talking about it

I forget who and I'm too lazy to search, but a company just announced a recurring $10,000/month donation to Godot. A few others are donating too. So they do have some monetary support!

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.