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I am just an amateur game dev, but I really love Godot. Its so simple and just makes sense. The architecture with nodes really works and is easy to reason about
by ecshafer 4y ago
I am just an amateur game dev, but I really love Godot. Its so simple and just makes sense. The architecture with nodes really works and is easy to reason about. I hope Godot 4 really knocks it out of the park with 3d, but as it is, Godot is my favorite engine for 2d. With 3d stuff I think I would still just use Unreal, which is just so incredibly powerful.
Unity I don't understand how it got so popular outside of marketing, since I have found it to be actively painful to use.
- adastra22 4y agoBack when Unity got popular, over a decade ago, there wasn’t any alternatives.
- indigo945 4y agoWell, there were some established players, such as Acknex 3D GameStudio. Unity had the advantage of being somewhat feature-complete while being somewhat intuitive to use, but it wasn't the only option.
- hgs3 4y agoThere were plenty of alternatives: C4, Torque, Leadwerks, ShiVa, NeoAxis, Esenthel, Panda3D, Cafu, Crystal Space, and others. Unity gained popularity because it supported mobile devices at a time when the smart phone market was only a few years old and mobile games were profitable.
- adastra22 4y agoAka “there wasn’t any alternatives.” Unity targeted a niche market that grew up to eat the entire industry.