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Godot Game Engine 3 years ago

An active paid asset marketplace, specifically for systems and templates. There is movement on this front, but it's slow.

Right now if you don't want to build it, you have to hope someone is offering it for free - where in Unity there are many options for almost anything you can think of varying quality/price.

It's just such a game changer for prototyping or just being new to game dev.

Duo Outage 3 years ago

Not often I see UC mentioned on HN. What program are you in?

Agreed. It took weeks of researching to find this term when I was looking to optimize travel time search. Once I did, everything became easier! Ended up forking Open Transit Planner, this was back in 2015. Turned 40 minutes real estate searches into 40ms or so.

My daughter is five and plays creative by herself on PC. It's easier (for her) to control than the tablet version and she asks to watch Minecraft videos before playing to learn more (she corrected me on the minimum size of a nether portal the other day...)

Not to mention her keyboard and mouse skills are great now.

Godot 4 Beta 1 4 years ago

Their web hosting has been pretty awful the last month or two. Multiple days of downtime for critical pieces. I know they get it free from tuxfamily but this certainly feels like they're getting what they pay for.

Godot 4 Beta 1 4 years ago

This is great.

I've been building my game on the Godot 4 alphas and the improvements in networking and rendering have more than made up for any instability or keeping up with changes. That said, more stability will be welcome and a focus on bug fixing instead of feature proposals will be key to a strong 4.0 release.

I think Godot 4.0's new multiplayer nodes get closer to what they're promising but even then, you still have to write some code around it to use it.

I prefer Godot's approach but it's not as ready to go as they're describing.