Nice! With all the new sponsors they should be able to hire another full-time dev soon, I guess?

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Quoting: subI somehow get the feeling there are many different stakeholders that just don't want to see this thing to be successful.

I am one of them. I want it to fail and fail hard. Because I don't like monopolies. We all know how this is going to end, right? Right now, Stadia is (or rather, wants to be) the Netflix of gaming. Then the big studios (ahem EA, Ubisoft, MS etc), will do the same thing the big content creators did to Netflix: Declaring 100% of their own content "exclusive" to their own streaming platforms. Google will react to that by tossing big bucks at developing their own exclusive stuff, because they can and want to stay in business. And now players will have to pay $$$ a month to 5-6 different platforms to get access to a halfway comprehensive library of games. The publishers will laugh at how we're now spending three times more money on gaming than in the olden days, when people used to buy good games in Steam sales, and laugh even harder at how they can dictate both prices and terms consumes without them having the slightest chance to do anything about it.

Brave new world.

...and I haven't even started to point out how ridiculous it is to produce multi-Gigabyte loads on your home internet per hour just to download pre-rendered sceens that a $400 GPU could render locally.

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Sounds great! I love Stellaris! They're making an already great game better, in their typical Paradox way. :)

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I also can't see much of a target audience for a smaller commercial engine these days. Smaller indie developers or one-dev teams making 2D or small budget 3D games would probably pick Godot these days, while anyone in need of a fully-featured engine would still go with Unity or Unreal.

That being said, competition and choice is never a bad thing. Even if I can't see this product to thrive for long.

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This is easily my most anticipated game for next year. :)

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I will get that! Love the base game! :)

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That's a much smaller selection than I'd have expected. With all the money and manpower Google can (and probably did) throw at this project, I'd have expected them making sort of a bigger splash for release, when they're guaranteed to get a lot of media attention. If they don't expand this meager offering really fast, Stadia will vanish into the dark really fast.

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It has been a great time for us! The one negative thing about this story that actually surprised me is that our market share is still the very same 1% it was before Steam for Linux launched. I would have bet that with all these games available now and Windows 10 the buggy spyware it is, it would be higher by now... oO

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Sometimes its really strange how very small and less-than complex contributions that would add absolutely essential features to Godot seem to get stuck in the approval-queue for ages. Like for example https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/23864 [External Link] that would allow adding properties to tiles and is needed for pretty much any 2D RPG or RTS imaginable. I was really hoping to see it added to 3.2, but I guess not... :S

I get why they feel they need to become a more serious option for 3D games, but personally I wish they'd get the 2D side right first, because I think that's what most current Godot users are developing.

Other than that, glad to see that 3.2 is coming along nicely, anyway! :)

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Quoting: scaineI think this is the first the I've ever been called an extremist though! That's new! :S:

You and me both. Although I have been called all sorts of other things, by a certain side of the political spectrum, that is. You will get used to it. It's the price of standing up against said certain sides the of political spectrum in 2019! ;)

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