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Another day means another Community Manager in the games industry sabotaging their own company. Today we’ll look at the Godot mess from an engineer’s perspective and how it’s going to impact everybody involved.
Zippia Demographics: https://www.zippia.com/software-engineer-jobs/demographics/
Godot Funding: https://fund.godotengine.org/
Redot: https://x.com/RedotEngine
Twitter User Claims: https://x.com/Mahboiii/status/1840269638698954802
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Moved to Reddot
I watched every drama milker about this 2 weeks ago yet you still gave me new insight into this, wp
Both sides of this argument look ridiculous, over emotional and childish. The majority of people don't care or even know about this. You can already make games with these engines… In their current state… Some bugs not being fixed in engine didnt effect the 1000s of games that came out last week, its not going to "effect indie games in the future because bugs are fixed slower". Not the greatest argument. Thats like how people "need the latest engine" No, you need LTS… Games are made everyday, there isn't anything actually stopping you except excuses.
Yup, they let a woke terrorist in, and now that thing is just destroying Godot from the inside, just as it planned to do. This is why you have to always gatekeep. 😒
will you show us what was said on the discord? because I've seen 4 videos by "anti-woke" people so far and nobody showed or commented on the whole discord discussion.
Still No idea what politics in my game engine does ……
well shit me and 2 friends wanted to make a game they thought of doing it on unity but i already know how to code on godot well 1 of them wanted unity a lieast we haven't even started coding achally im the onely coder anyways and i was thinking of using godot to code it
well turns out godot its a cult first a game engine second
It's really funny to me.
AFAIK godot simply responded aggressively to a harassment campaign.
what's even funnier is, is that there's like 5 people going like "oh no!, godot is dying"
whereas the rest of the world just moves on.
literally all you'd need to is fork the engine.
It seems like a DOA fork, the guy forking have no relevant development experience or was a core contributor .
I don't expect much to change
I was only in one year on Godot for my own game. Doing it myself now, takes longer but probably a good learning experience. Keeping tabs on Redot though.
Godot is not very good because -Z is forward in Godot. Who decided that?
I recently started using godot (before all this happened) and was pretty ok with the engine. Now im afraid that i will have to migrate to another platform. This makes me sad and angry because i will have more work now.
He really overestimates how many nazis there are in game development.
I have been trying to get away from politics for a while. I quit social media, stop reading the news, watching political videos. I'm only on instructables and youtube. I started working on my game using Godot for the first time three weeks ago and I was so happy. I already put in like 80 hours. I was actually looking for some tutorials on Game Managers and found all this mess because of the word "manager" as in "Community Manager". The forking if anything will ruin everything. I can't believe it. If I could I would freeze myself for a few years
i did fork godot and i do plan to build on top of it ……………..
maybe make my own version one day
but i first need to learn C++
and i already start working on my games in godot xd
i legit feel sabotage like big time
over some dumb activist
will redot be a batter alternative i don't know its not out yet .
got to make everything political and even add set EDI agenda even in the software DNA ….
i hate politics
A lot of noise for little. So many bigger problems to solve… I'm glad I left Twitter…
I care more about the missing type inference in the scripting. Also non-woke look kind of disoriented, they always react to things, but somehow cannot build anything.
The Only political view I think Godot should promote is perhaps Open Source. But even this is is borderline. But it should certainly not get involved in who people choose to sleep with. Or how they identify. It is a Game Engine. I been a Gold Supporter since 2021. First on Pateron and then on Godot Foundation Dev Fund. But I just canceled it. Until they get their shit together I'm staying away from funding them.
This is a deliberate sabotage. Tгооns on responsible jobs and profit don't go along.
I have decided to fork Godot 4.3 for my own proprietary needs, both in game dev and animation. Redot is an admirable effort, however it is currently outdated right now. Their engine has not been updated since 2017, only just recently getting changes now after this ordeal on X.
Burning down their own house is an understatement. They burned down their entire settlement.
I don't care. I get great open source software that doesn't ask me for anything in return. I don't care about their views, I don't care about their politics. These are human things, people can be stupid. What is important are the tools. And godot is a great tool.
Just dont use public engines, guys. All good old games were made using in-house engines or build from scratch. And that is where true masterpieces come from
This is not new. Godot has been replacing good people with activists for years.
Godot is basically unity but with worse performance, game maker is better for 2d games and unity/ unreal are better for 3d games. Godot is worth using though as it’s free. If you want to make a game that does not require a large amount of performance use it.
Honestly, this whole "woke" drama around Godot started from a simple tweet, and while it blew up, it’s really not that deep. These kinds of controversies pop up in online communities all the time and usually fade away when people get back to focusing on the important stuff.
Some people are saying Godot might’ve lost contributors over this, but let’s be real: most devs either don’t care or actually support the message Godot was putting out.
And forking the engine in protest? We’ve seen this before, and most forks based on political disagreements end up going nowhere because they can’t keep up with development.
Now, I don’t agree with how they handled the controversy by user blocking—it’s a bad look for sure from a PR perspective, and for the project. But do I think they were wrong for posting the tweet? Not at all. It wasn’t harmful, and honestly, the tweet aligns with what a lot of us devs and users think.
If someone’s that upset and decides to stop supporting the project because of a tweet like that, I think the community will be just fine without them.
So many people are just butthurt. I really don't see why people care about something so trivial. We are witnessing war maybe a world war soon, natural desasters and econoimic crysis. Wokot is not news.
Lol. The youtubers who spend too much time on Twitter are coming out the woodworks to make a stink about things that do not matter. Oof in slow motion.
They have gained in the short term. Sadly. I’m either going to ReDot or unity.
7:45 Who in their right mind would be committed to using a bug ridden game engine for a major project, unless they'd already figured out methods to work around them? That would be horrible planning on a game developer's part.
Redot game engine the fork of it, will take the Throne ❤I hope❤ Because I hate seeing woke posts and the prohibitive mind.
unity fired the people that fucked up
godot fundation will probably give the green hair goblin a raise.
Godot is too bugged to be even salvageable, nothing works on that crap, I will say, as someone that almost gave up on game dev because of this scam engine… this green hair goblin did a favor to many aspiring game devs that won't have to lose months now.
This is just the seed that began to grow. Things will get worse once it starts really going out of control.
single tweet ruined all developers future revenue it must be millions of $
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