Quoting: KristianThe thing with an asset store is that guven that the engine is open source/free software in theory anyone can set up their own competing asset store. Now that might not be a big worry in practice for example because people want to have everything in one place.

actually godot already have an asset store and option to add the url to get stuff from others.
what it lack is an way to do/receive payments on it, and we already have asset stores on some webpages where you can purchase stuff

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"we want the Foundation to serve as a home for community initiatives, by allowing it to have its own funding lines (this means, so they can raise funding on their own for a specific goal, but the Foundation receives and uses it according to what was agreed), such as initiatives to promote education, communication and diversity".

this is HUGE, i cant believe i forgot to mention the best part.

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as for an way to buy/sell assets on the asset store, that is a must have for their ecosystem, competing with unreal and unity isnt easy, people say a lot of things about opensource software, but even an empty text document is an open source software, you just have to write your own code to make the features you want, in other words, being opensource alone dont means much, if you lack too many essential features, then its useless for most people, they cant afford to use your software and write the features they need and it lacks, instead they will be better served using proprietary softwares and making/downloading addons for then or dealing with their limitations in case that is impossible.

comparing unity to godot is akin to compare windows to linux, linux may be better as a system, but the windows ecosystem has more softwares and for many its economically inviable to use linux (they need softwares that only work on windows to pay the bills), the same can be said about some addons for unity, the good news is, as soon as godot get more popular, addon developers might make an version for godot, it happened with blender for example.

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i have mixed feelings here.

i liked how things worked under the umbrela of the Software Freedom Conservancy charity, not only the project was developing fine as it was, but they had to be accountable by an thirdy party, in theory this hold then more accountable to invest the money from donnors into the common goods for us, instead of using for something else.
another thing to consider is that they already have the "W4 Games" to act as an "commercial bridge", so having their own foundation looks a bit redundant.

on the other hand, dealing with thirdy parties can have it own problems, if the other foundation had corrupt people for example, who lie about the ammount they received or stuff like that, then there would be little they could do to act uppon it, its better to move sooner rather than later after something happen.

on the other hand, we were helping 2 important projects at once, the free software conservancy who act as an incubator for projects like godot (as far as i understood) and the godot project, now we are helping just one, it feel like a "betrayal" or maybe its just a graduation and that is how the conservancy group suppose to be? an incubator for small projects to be hosted until they can host thenselves, and then the conservancy group is free to help other projects instead?

merchandising
their logo is mega popular, any merchandising based on it should be as well

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steamdeck is doing miracles for the ecosystem, the entire ecosystem is evolving faster than ever and looks like its accelerating.

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i think they will use this oportunity to port any game specific code to unreal engine, so it will reduce the ammount of work they will have to make witcher 4 on it.

witcher 1 remake should have less content afterall

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oh never mind, this is an eggroll... im not an native english speaker so i wouldnt know

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what strange thumbnail

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: elmapulwho also made umineko

Do you know how to use Umineko Project port of the game? Their site is pretty confusing.

i have no idea what it is, i havent played the games yet but watched the animes and they are quite good.
i mean... with a few asterisks.

i recomend watching higurashi first, the first 2 seasons relased are classics the thirdy is still very good but not part of the main arc, the forth, well, its pure "fanservice" so be warned.
recently they relased a few more higurashi animes but i havent watched and my friend who did got disapointed.
as for umineko, i liked the anime despite a few issues, like obviously skiping/rushing content from the game, a lot of nonsense happening, not finishing the story and others... but i highly recomend to watch the first seasons of higurashi before watching umineko (actually the first 2 or 3) it make even less sense otherwise.
or play the game first...

anyway, its a great piece of art, if the game is as good as the anime, then its incredible.

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there are a lot of silent hill games announced at once, and one of the new announcments will be writen by higurashi creator!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/709/Higurashi_When_They_Cry_Hou/ [External Link]

who also made umineko

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