• NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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

    I really hope Godot becomes the Blender of game engines.

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          Maybe failed is a strong word. It wasn’t very popular and support was dropped out of Blender a few years back but it seems to have new life under the fork UPBGE.

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      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
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        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
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        1 year ago

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

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          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”

    • Gnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.