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Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

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Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#31

Post by otachack »

krapp wrote: post #29
hasahmed wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Godot doesn't enforce any structure like game maker does. Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on)

>Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on) I agree with the comparison to GML, but whether one finds Gdscript intuitive depends on one's existing background. I personally found it frustrating because I was used to C/C++, but with time I can see getting used to it. It's not a bad language by any means. Also, bo…

Godot has C# support, I thought? https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-csharp-godot

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#32

Post by luladjiev »

krapp wrote: post #29
hasahmed wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Godot doesn't enforce any structure like game maker does. Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on)

>Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on) I agree with the comparison to GML, but whether one finds Gdscript intuitive depends on one's existing background. I personally found it frustrating because I was used to C/C++, but with time I can see getting used to it. It's not a bad language by any means. Also, bo…

from Godot's documentation:

>Finally, one of our brightest additions for the 3.0 release: GDNative allows scripting in C++ without needing to recompile (or even restart) Godot.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_...

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#33

Post by sitkack »

ValleyOfTheMtns wrote: post #7

If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion. I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.

What are your thoughts on Lua Love [1] ? I have done some Unity, Unreal, Pygame, Processing, etc. And Love has always had the shortest time from idea to running sketch.

[1] https://love2d.org/

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#34

Post by pjmlp »

luladjiev wrote: post #32
krapp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on) I agree with the comparison to GML, but whether one finds Gdscript intuitive depends on one's existing background. I personally found it frustrating because I was used to C/C++, but with time I can see getting used to it. It's not a bad language by any means. Also, bo…

from Godot's documentation: >Finally, one of our brightest additions for the 3.0 release: GDNative allows scripting in C++ without needing to recompile (or even restart) Godot. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_...

Given that Unreal only now added such support via https://molecular-matters.com/products_livepp.html partnership, I wonder how Godot is actually doing it.

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#35

Post by grawprog »

krapp wrote: post #29
hasahmed wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Godot doesn't enforce any structure like game maker does. Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on)

>Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on) I agree with the comparison to GML, but whether one finds Gdscript intuitive depends on one's existing background. I personally found it frustrating because I was used to C/C++, but with time I can see getting used to it. It's not a bad language by any means. Also, bo…

>Godot can support different languages (unlike Unity or Game Maker), but IIRC that requires recompiling the engine and may break the editor.

Personally i've been using this for godot:

https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-d

It's been working well for me.

I compile my code and include it as an .so in my project. No recompiling the editor.

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#36

Post by coppolaemilio »

crocal wrote: post #14
ValleyOfTheMtns wrote: post #7

If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion. I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.

Thanks for the tip. Did you have a chance to compare with gamemaker?

I did some youtube tutorials on it and also have a repo with a dictionary if you want to start translating some of your knowledge https://github.com/coppolaemilio/gamemaker-godot-dictionary

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#37

Post by nacs »

sitkack wrote: post #33
ValleyOfTheMtns wrote: post #7

If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion. I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.

What are your thoughts on Lua Love [1] ? I have done some Unity, Unreal, Pygame, Processing, etc. And Love has always had the shortest time from idea to running sketch. [1] https://love2d.org/

I've found Lua engines like Love to be great for prototypes and gamejams but when it comes to implementing a full game its not as good as the full blown engines like Unity/Godot.

If your game has more than trivial amount of UI, particle-systems, 3D, etc then it becomes very time consuming. To write and tweak a full blown responsive UI like in-game windows, alerts, animations etc with code-only is not trivial. With a full-featured editor like Unity and Godot, UI, particles, tweened-animations and such becomes much easier as you can keep interactively tweak things around until its perfect without the edit-code & recompile cycle.

There's also King's "Defold" engine which uses Lua and has a visual editor but the last time I used it over a year ago, I found there was almost no in-game UI libraries so although making the prototype was fun and relatively easy adding UI became difficult.

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#38

Post by uurrnn »

sitkack wrote: post #33
ValleyOfTheMtns wrote: post #7

If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion. I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.

What are your thoughts on Lua Love [1] ? I have done some Unity, Unreal, Pygame, Processing, etc. And Love has always had the shortest time from idea to running sketch. [1] https://love2d.org/

I've always thought Love looked good, but I've never tried it myself.

Do you only use it for quick prototyping of ideas and then move over to a different engine if you like the idea and want to expand?

I imagine the answer could come down to the scope of the game.

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#39

Post by sitkack »

uurrnn wrote: post #38
sitkack wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your thoughts on Lua Love [1] ? I have done some Unity, Unreal, Pygame, Processing, etc. And Love has always had the shortest time from idea to running sketch. [1] https://love2d.org/

I've always thought Love looked good, but I've never tried it myself. Do you only use it for quick prototyping of ideas and then move over to a different engine if you like the idea and want to expand? I imagine the answer could come down to the scope of the game.

It is more for quick sketches that are interactive, or designing animation that would be too difficult in Blender or After Effects. While folks do make full blown games with it, for me it is more of a interactive animation workbench.

Re: Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

#40

Post by krapp »

luladjiev wrote: post #32
krapp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Additionally Godots default language (Gdscript) is awesome and intuitive, whereas gml doesn't really feel like a real language (argument0-15. Come on) I agree with the comparison to GML, but whether one finds Gdscript intuitive depends on one's existing background. I personally found it frustrating because I was used to C/C++, but with time I can see getting used to it. It's not a bad language by any means. Also, bo…

from Godot's documentation: >Finally, one of our brightest additions for the 3.0 release: GDNative allows scripting in C++ without needing to recompile (or even restart) Godot. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_...

Well... scratch one complaint, then.
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