One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
  • SamC@lemmy.nz
    4·
    2 years ago

    Hopefully Unity doesn’t disrupt your current project too much.

    But yeah, I think this is the most extreme case of a company burning trust with their users overnight in recent years (worse than Twitter IMO). It’s especially bad because many Unity users/devs have their livelihood depending on Unity, so of course they are going to change once they get a chance. The risks of not switching now massively outweigh the risks of switching.

    It will just take a lot of devs/teams some time to transition. Unity will probably go under in 2-4 years, they can’t recover from this.

    I’ve played around with Godot a bit, and in my view it actually makes more sense than Unity. Probably has more limitations, but hopefully those can be overcome in the next couple of years.

    • FREEZX@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thanks. We’re fortunately still on 2022, so it won’t really affect us at this point.
      I’ve been keeping an eye on godot for a while, it seems like a very interesting engine. I’m not sure if it’s ready for prime time for the scale and rendering quality we’re usually looking for, but it might be a great option for 2D and smaller-scale projects.