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I wonder why Godot and Unreal are getting so much interest today (lemmy.today)
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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 173 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I can't believe Godot surpassed Unreal in interest. Astonishing moment.

I really hope Godot becomes the Blender of game engines.

[–] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 92 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a funny analogy because Blender was a game engine at one point and failed.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was decided that game engine development was over complicating the goal of Blender. It detracted from actual 3D software development resources and trying to make all blender features seamless with it was nearly doubling potential work.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe in the open-source world, this is called "mission creep". It means when a project gradually expands its scope and mission until it becomes unmaintainably broad.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Difference to scope creep (Systemd)?

[–] jcg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Also git diff feature-creep?

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like Systemd, my services and timers are huge improvements over trying to use SysV and Cron.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really want a game staring the default cube now.

The final boss would of course be a doughnut.

[–] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

Default Cube is a playable character in Super Tux Kart, although unofficially through a user created addon which can be downloaded through the game’s addon feature.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not Suzanne the monkey?

Also, it's not 3D, but you may like 140, where you play as a square that turns into a circle when jumping. It's actually a great game, like a decomposition of what it means to be a platformer.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have a hypothesis: People have heard of Unreal but haven't heard of Godot, they see folks talking about it and go "What's that" and google it.

[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

It would be great if a portion of them decided to dip their toes into game development too since it's free.

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You just described what I did just before reading this comment.

[–] intelati@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I've considered "what does the download/install look like" before realizing "You've had Blender installed and passively updating for months [pacman] without using it. Stop that"

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I mean if you just got fucked over by a proprietary engine then why go for another one. People are delusional if they think Unreal is a safe option.