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This is huge and I hope they'll manage to deliver working console support. Though real problem is not just code itself, but some backing from larger publishing
by SXX 4y ago
This is huge and I hope they'll manage to deliver working console support. Though real problem is not just code itself, but some backing from larger publishing companies. Basically pipeline of all major publishers is built around Unity and Unreal: porting teams, localization, QA and devops. You can create an amazing game, but just for the reason you are not using two of major game engines you won't be able to find funding and sign publishing deal.
I am on 10+ people team building an indie game using Godot. Unfortunately for our next project we will have to use Unity because we had a hard time finding investment. Several companies loved our game, but refused a deal simply because it's not built on Unity or Unreal. In the end we found a smaller publisher that was interested, but it's likely we could get a better deal if we built it on Unity.
PS: Shameless plug. Our game is here to be released sometimes in 2022:
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- zibby8 4y agoWow I love the style of this game. Sorry to hear it was hard to fund.
- SXX 4y agoThanks. In our case gettng funded was not as critical as our project been in development for more than two years before we signed publishing agrement in January 2022. Without at least some extra budget we wouldn't be being able to work on it full-time and hire extra artists. So gettting to release would take two more years. Also doing marketing in-house is really difficult, prohibitively expensive and distract you from actually working on a game. Overall our experience with Godot was good enough except for performance profiling and UI toolkit. I wish Godot get more traction, but unfortunately for now this is hot it is. So I have to warn fellow indie devs that decision to use less popular game engine have it costs.
- Semaphor 4y agoThat game looks great, though. Wishlisted. And sorry to hear about the funding trouble, that sounds like something that should be higher up and discussed more.