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AAA quality? No it's not there, but it's certainly been improving on a number of fronts.

p1necone 3y ago
Yeah I'm not saying Godot looks AAA ready, just that it's much closer than every other option. Although I would love to see how far a code only engine core + separate third party level editor tooling model could go, it appeals to my intuitive feel of what the "right" way to build software is.
- ninepoints 3y ago
  I have casually evaluated Godot so I am moderately aware of its capabilities. The thing I did not evaluate well though is how well structured its data and asset pipelines are. The big thing a AAA engine needs (aside from rendering, console support, and perf and all that) is the ability to scale production to hundreds or thousands of programmers and artists. The ability of an engine to scale in this way is generally learned painfully by doing, and I'm looking forward to see how Godot fares on larger scale projects over time.
esrauch 3y ago
There's hardly any AAA titles that use Unity, the most well known ones are games like Hearthstone, Cuphead, Beat Saber. These are great games but they're not exactly GTA 6 or Call if Duty.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Yeah it's a historical difference, and Unity literally kicked out its best chance to compete in that space with DOTS. But on mobile it is king, and mobile is starting to get games that can rival AAA studios in presentation. Genshin Impact and the rest of Hoyoverse's games are all in Unity, and while not confirmed I wouldn't be surprised if Project Mugen is also running Unity (given that most of NetEase's portfolio relies on it). So it has the capability to handle AAA games, even if no one in the west is utilizing it.
- ninepoints 3y ago
  As someone in the industry, those games don't actually fit my traditional mental model of what "AAA" means. AAA doesn't directly correlate with revenue for example. The general rule of thumb I kind of go by is that a game is likely to be "AAA" if it uses motion captured skeletal and facial animation sequences.

Yeah I'm not saying Godot looks AAA ready, just that it's much closer than every other option. Although I would love to see how far a code only engine core + separate third party level editor tooling model could go, it appeals to my intuitive feel of what the "right" way to build software is.

ninepoints 3y ago
I have casually evaluated Godot so I am moderately aware of its capabilities. The thing I did not evaluate well though is how well structured its data and asset pipelines are. The big thing a AAA engine needs (aside from rendering, console support, and perf and all that) is the ability to scale production to hundreds or thousands of programmers and artists. The ability of an engine to scale in this way is generally learned painfully by doing, and I'm looking forward to see how Godot fares on larger scale projects over time.

esrauch 3y ago

There's hardly any AAA titles that use Unity, the most well known ones are games like Hearthstone, Cuphead, Beat Saber. These are great games but they're not exactly GTA 6 or Call if Duty.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
Yeah it's a historical difference, and Unity literally kicked out its best chance to compete in that space with DOTS. But on mobile it is king, and mobile is starting to get games that can rival AAA studios in presentation. Genshin Impact and the rest of Hoyoverse's games are all in Unity, and while not confirmed I wouldn't be surprised if Project Mugen is also running Unity (given that most of NetEase's portfolio relies on it). So it has the capability to handle AAA games, even if no one in the west is utilizing it.
ninepoints 3y ago
As someone in the industry, those games don't actually fit my traditional mental model of what "AAA" means. AAA doesn't directly correlate with revenue for example. The general rule of thumb I kind of go by is that a game is likely to be "AAA" if it uses motion captured skeletal and facial animation sequences.