Quoting: ValckWait what? Who exactly are we talking about? The video game industry that is just about beginning to lose the tiniest bit control of their grip on the technology because of independent studios and engines like Godot, neither of which ever lost control over their technology because they develop it?

actually, the game industry migrated from self owned/developed solutions to thirdy party engines, most of then proprietary, so having an strong open source option os regain control, and that is what this move is about, making godot stronger.

if godot die, then we lose all the control it gave us.
sure, some one can fork it or another oss take the lead, but we have no guarantee it will be as good as godot is.
if you arguee that godot can be replaced then there is no need to worry about godot future.

godot is not isolated in the market, its fighting for atention of developers against gigants like epic/unreal and unity/unity, both of wich have truckloads of money and most important than their systems: an gigant ecosystem, people making plugins for unity (comparing their asset store to godot's is like comparing windows ecosystem to linux from a few years ago), unreal has tons of built in features and own most of the biggest/best asset stores for developers (sketchfab, megascans etc).

that said, a big chunck of the gaming market is, consoles, godot need to enter this market in order to survive in both short/long term, but more importantly, an game engine is nothing without its developers, those need to thrive, and consoles are important to make their business profitable.

i dont think godot is backstabing us, quite the opposite, i think they will have some proprietary "export templates" that they cant make public avaliable due to cluasles like NDA, but thats gonna be it, they will help with porting, help "creating export templates", but the major features will still be avaliable for all platforms, except for cases like, if nintendo make another inovation such as "motion controls", this feature will not be avaliable in the main godot version because it simply wont make sense in other platforms, and the only one it is, has the NDA issue.

Quoting: Valckthey already don't need this company's help.

indies need to publish in as many platforms as they can to survive, but one thing i will agree is: they arent the only option to publish on consoles, we already had 3 options before, im not sure if they entering the market is a good thing (we got one more entrie point in the console market, giving us 4 options instead of 3) or a bad thing (those 3 who supported godot before might strugle to compete)
another thing to consider is that the main developers of godot will share "their time" at best, or completely move to the new company at worse, but i think if they are doing that now, they already have someone else to replace then.
hell, juan isnt the best programmer in the world, he know that, no one expected him to be, if he found someone more competent to replace him and decided to do that, more power to him.

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seeing the video here... you know what, it may have beeing confusing showing a lot of prototypes of the final device instead of focusing on the final devide+... GAMES, they are assuming everyone already know what steam is, what games it can play, and that might not be the case, its always good to showcase some games, especially the ones popular on the region.
i hope their market efforts arent all like this there

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as an wise man once said, if we ever get an featured as an neptunia character, that means we won!

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"No text or imagery promoting a different product. This includes no marketing of sequels or other titles in the same franchise"

chapter 2 count as marketing of sequels?

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hopefully they will be at stores by christmas.
if that happens they might explode in sales.

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dam bold time! lets teach blizzard how to properly make an diablo game!

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Quoting: GuestGreat to see another native app. And that from Godot, too! Great to see more devs shifting off Unity! Runs super smooth - love it!

its not an result of the unity exodous, this game was in development for a while, since before the big unity exodous.

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this looks perfect for the deck

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finally! now i just need money to buy and... i guess my computer can run...

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicI think sometimes the more technically skilled developers (or Linux users for that matter) forget that even among developers, there are those who are certainly capable of writing a bit of code and running a python script or clicking compile in an IDE, but struggle with something like compiling a complex piece of software through a build system like cmake, resolving dependency issues, etc.

worse, they forget that there is a magic thing called "learning curve"

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