Why Use The Godot Game Engine?

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I have Godot on a portable USB drive. I just plug it into any computer, laptop and am able to code and develop from anywhere without syncing. It's just such a comfortable solution. No internet connection required, no accounts, no annoying updates.

How many people watching this after Unity price change?

I'm here because of the new Unity pricing plan. I was learning Unity, but now I'm switching to Godot.

As a hobbyist, Godot maximizes my time spent developing. GDScript or C# (4.0 vastly improved C#, btw), doesn't matter. When I have half an hour at the end of the day to develop, Godot is up and running in seconds, and I can have three featuers done by the time Unity would have opened my project and reimported my assets after a package update. I say this after ~15 years of working with Unity.

Great video but it left out one major thing that I absolutely love about Godot. The documentation is bundled in with the engine. If you're a weird tech enthusiast, like me, you might like working in weird situations. If you don't have internet and need to figure something out, all the documentation is built in. Everything is built in. You can develop so much with Godot, and all you need is a single file. The engine has a code editor and it includes documentation... it's incredible. I'll never get over the fact that I could make pretty much anything in a pinch as long as I have a usb with godot 3.5+ and godot 4+ on it and a device to run it on. That is all it takes to have a development suite that can create games, mobile apps, websocket servers... I've even built a prototype CDN using Godot as a little fun 1 day project. Heck, I even built a tool that syncs my current Godot scene into Neos using websockets, and I didn't have to use any external tools.

3:00 man this aged like fine wine.

Unity just sent me to this video.

Welp there's a whole new reason now

The Linux support in Godot is fantastic. At least with GDScript there is no friction in getting set up or using multiple versions of Godot. The platform feels very first party.

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this aged well

Another reason is what happened last week, with the Runtime install fees from unity xD

Aged like fine wine

I was recommended this video, for some mysterious reason.

The thing that sets Godot out above all other engines by far imo is how well it works with both 2D and 3D, meaning it's ideal for the new Octopath-style "HD-2D" style that's catching on in indies

For the first time, Youtube algorythm is on point lol

I'm re-learning C/C++ with Godot's source code. I heard a good things about Godot's clean code, modularity, and more. So far so good. No compilation error at all from master branch. Not related to game development but Godot's future is bright as long as contributors keep up with good code quality.

Unity answered the question for us.

i personally would like to hear more on the pros and cons of the 3 big engines.