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W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development inflection with Godot Engine (w4games.com)
submitted 11 months ago by popcar2 to c/godot
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That's a lot of cash money. I'm still a bit confused at how much of this money will go to the actual engine and how much of it will go to supporting W4 in general, such as allowing devs to publish Godot games for consoles.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Unity/Unreal can talk business with Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo in a way standalone Godot engine cannot, and should not.

Unity is proprietary and Unreal is source-available; the companies have direct control over how you redistribute their engine (to collect funding). Agreements can be made between them and the console manufacturers. Godot engine is open source (MIT) and appeals to a different kind of game dev, where including proprietary code that requires a license would be an unusual juxtaposition to say the least. If consoles support is important to you then perhaps there is no issue but for others that is repulsive.

It gives unjust power over the devs (think in terms of the recent Unity fee fiasco). I wouldn't contribute to a proprietary project (that's just doing free work for a company) but I'd be honored if an open source project considered my contribution worth something to them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's great, you're just locking a large majority of Indie devs away from Godot forcing them to choose an engine that supports pc, and consoles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Godot engine is licensed under MIT; it doesn't prevent you from bundling it with proprietary software which could support consoles. That should just be a separate thing so both are happy.

I value the software freedom of me and my users. It is the console manufacturers who are locking me out because I don't want to be shacked or take advantage of my users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@NocturnalMorning @tabular though in the engine world godot is kinda indie comparing to other engines, you know? :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't like the modern gaming industry. It is my hope that one day the norm will be free (libre) software games, using free engines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, I'm an Indie dev. I've tried all three engine, Godot, Unreal, and Unity, and I just don't think Godot is there yet. I used it for almost 2 years before giving it up for Unreal, and I came back and tried Godot 4.0 for a few months. It's a reality that kind of sucks. But I'm going to wait a few more years for Godot to catch up before I try to dip my toe back in.