The sheer fact that #Godot Community Forums got closed off because of some disagreements and confusion of the successor around #W4Games/#GodotFoundation and promises of the massive #FOSS project... I'd argue it is *not* as disappointing as the feeling of being betrayed for not giving away red flags before this whole debuckle even started to pan out.

If you make a #forum in a sense of place where different points of view are brought up, you should know better than to make a controversial post and lock it. Same difference with legit issues that were locked without any sensible resolution in issue tracker for yet another #OpenSource project.

Oh wow, #GodotEngine is on the brink of extinction! Help Juan not to lose his $8.5 million from #W4Games! 🤣

#GodotEngine #Godot #GodotEngine4 #Godot4 #W4Games #GameDev #IndieDev

It still makes me chuckle to see Juan, lead developer of #Godot, mentioning #GodotEngine's own commercial company, #W4Games, in the third person. 🤭

It's not like they're going to sell Godot or make it closed, right? Nobody is going to take it away from you, even if some suddenly decided to push new versions as proprietary...

Investments should be more or less safe with Juan. Or am I wrong? 👀

Anyways, my hope is that everyone gets what they truly deserve! 😊

#GameDev, #IndieDev #OpenSource

@Longplay_Games Making money from selling shirts is surprisingly hard! Things might change with #W4Games, but afaik the #Godot Foundation simply can't do that (since it's no business entity).

That being said, there's a shirt by @rafalagoon you may be interested in!

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Godot-Nodes-by-RafaLagoon/119962561.S7RYU.XYZ

I think they even donate a portion of their profit to Godot. (Although that profit is WAY lower than you'd think) But well, at least you can show off your favorite engine in public - that's priceless! 😉

@gamingonlinux I hope #W4games can offer a competing package to #Unity in terms.of #ConsoleSupport...

@gmate8 @1disk TBH I think that #Godot is pretty awesome and #W4Games as corporate sponsor is working out the main and only drawback: lack of #console support due to conflicting licenses [#FLOSS vs. #NDA'd #CCSS as part of #SDK's needed to get it to run on all still-supported consoles.

Basically what #Unity and #Unreal have as key advantage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-ZYAoapvU

I've just seen from the Godot documentation that it requires at least C++14.

Does that imply that willing to ship a game for platform that doesn't support it, let's say playstation or nintendo, may be impossible?

#Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev #cpp #W4Games

W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem: https://w4games.com/2022/08/09/hello-world-w4-games/ #linux #linuxgaming #foss #godot #w4games #ecosystem