"Can Godot deliver?" ponders Joanna at Chickensoft.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know about the fiasco in the game development world regarding the Unity video game engine.
"The game engine company Unity has once again gained notoriety for offending its users. This time, they've announced a $0.20 per install fee for games that surpass $200,000 in revenue."
"Unity's recent cash grab is not all that unexpected, either: this is just the latest transgression in a string of unpopular decisions. In case you missed it, here's what the world's most-popular game engine has been up to:"
[...list of stuff...]
But behind the scenes, this has sparked a great deal of interest in Godot, the leading open source game engine.
"Whether or not Unity intended to, I think they've awoken a sleeping giant. Godot almost seemed ambivalent to Unity before -- but now they're promising to take care of the users that Unity has left behind."
"So, if I was a big studio with millions of dollars to toss around, I'd put it into Godot. Free software can't be stopped."
Chickensoft makes open source tools for Godot and C#.
