Yes, bad leadership of Unity lead to Godot getting growth in users, and bad leadership of Godot lead to people leaving. The problem with Redot is that they have no track record due to them being newly formed. We don't know how often they will update the engine, how consistent they are, etc. I think they will need to build a track record before they will really start to build the user base. The initial user base will give them leeway and have faith that the team will stay on track, but I don't think everyone will be so quick to switch over yet.

I wasn't aware that Godot has issues with console porting. I'm not familiar enough with it.

Thanks for the support!

Thanks for the support!

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That sounds like a good topic to talk about in a follow up devlog.

@@SabrPath Unfortunately I am not satisfied with the video games I have made in less than 1 month because I find them too basic xD I am currently developing a horror video game that I have been working on for 1 year now and I can say that this will give me a pleasant experience once published.

I heard one person compare the aliens to the costumes in the original Stark Trek, when they had no budget to make people look like aliens and would just make a person bald with pointy ears. And I agree, the guns look like they're slapped in from some other game. They don't look sci-fi. Most of them look very modern day.

Thanks for the comment.

Judging from the other comments from people who viewed my video, it seems that I say some very different things that others are saying. Regardless of that, this is how channels grow on youtube, by making videos on trending topics. But I appreciate the comment.

@@SabrPath appreciate the answer.. but i feel the same about all channels. Its getting so generic. You said it yourself: your video has different things about a topic EVERYONE HAS to talk about in order to grow. Its getting too obvious how this work but be careful of not being generic and last i cant imagine a single programmer saying "i hate woke and 2030 so im moving to another engine" the whole topic is stupid. Thanks

@@jesustarsia6994 I'm sorry but this is just how the youtube algorithm works and it's the only way to build an audience. Video has to be tied in with what's trending, or needs a pretty girl on the thumbnail, otherwise it wont get picked up by the algorithm. And I'm definitely not going to resort to having sexualized women on my thumbnails. If it's any consolation to you, I only talk about Godot for a small percentage of the video and spend the rest of the video talking about customer relations, my experience with my game, and tips for game developers. Also, at no point in the video did I say "woke."

@@SabrPath ok bro... but if tomorrow the trend is "elephants from another dimensions" you will have to talk about it? And everyone else too.. its sucks man. Not your fault. But this particular topic is so unnecesary that i hate seeing recomendation after recomendation about the same... how can be that a positive thing long term? Its just the cause that after a time you get bored and then you end up hating everything as repetitive and the youtube channels made with ia and fake voices. Anyway... good luck with your channel always. Edit: i meant that on top of all youtubers talking about the same you have to add the channels with ia and fake voices.

@@jesustarsia6994 That's not how the algorithm works. If the US Vice Presidential debate is trending, it only pushes those videos to people who are watching political videos. The algorithm pushes specific topics to specific audiences. People who watch devlogs and indie game videos, are primarily game devs. Most of that audience will get recommended videos related to game development, including game engines. If I don't make a video about it, then it's basically passing on an opportunity to build my audience. And the end goal is to build an audience so I can build my brand. That's just how the algorithm works. Don't hate the player, hate the game. If you don't like seeing the videos in your recommended feed, go to your watch history and start deleting videos. That's how it determines what to recommend to you.

I get what you're saying, but $100 a month is more than the internet bill or phone bill. I've canceled a subscription that cost me less than that due to bad customer service.

That's a good plan to make yourself more valuable. I personally chose Unity because there's so many resources than there was for Unreal and it was much more versatile. At this point, I just want to focus on making as many games as possible with what I know.

Glad you enjoyed the content. I'll try to make more when it's relevant to what's trending on the algorithm. I'm trying to focus on my game and only want to make videos on trending topics to try to grow my brand.

I agree. With entertainment, you can't please everyone. And if you try to please everyone, your product isn't going to be as impactful.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. My goal is to make my videos useful to those who watch it.

Like I said, you can work on your own engine, but you'll be spending all your time making an engine.

Good possibility they were "pumping" their own donation numbers to try to gain attention, and kickstarter could have closed the fake accounts.

Here's the thing though. When you say "wokeness" is the problem, you're only shouting into an echo chamber because that term means different things to different people. This is why I'm specific when addressing issues. In my Concord videos, I specifically pointed out the bad character designs and lack of art direction because anyone can understand the problem when addressed that way. With this issue regarding Godot, I'm specifically addressing customer relations. Saying "wokeness" is the problem is a lazy way of pointing out the issue and doesn't offer a solution. And if no solution is suggested, then people outside of your echo chamber will not listen to you.

@@SabrPath "lazy way of pointing out" you just understand nothing and you can't just think we are the same here, we are not the same ppl, we have a different culture, perspective and country. i know that you noticed there's still woke ppl know nothing about anything bc all they know is just feeling, loving, tolerance and peace. and i know it was those activist allowing those woke ppl too much and forcing everybody to be one of them but they should learn how to respect other standard and hide their rainbow flag instead. if wokeness is not a problem, they could have done in other way better than just forcing and nonsensely blaming random ppl just bc ppl don't want their dirty stuff. if i speaking too long, you're not going to listen to me either like you're lazy to read a very long word if you looking for a solution, here is the easy solution i suggest, just let those company dead or make their dead quicker like what happened to dustborn, corncord and ubisoft, this is the solution you asking for? and about SBI, there's should be a solution for this, we just don't know what step we should take and how. if godot wasn't a open-source game engine, they should admit it at very beginning before its too long and i won't complain then never use them also you may think nobody is listening to me, but they will know what made me hate them so much, and it's irony knowing those woke activist think their standards are higher than normal being while we are the one who let them live in america and we don't mind if they hiding in their community but when thing goes too far, there's nothing sweet or neutral about it bc they just randomly being offensive to everybody even their own kind also woke is not my main culture either, i was born in asia where there's no woke ppl here, i often wandering around in internet, exploring every community, every fandom, even the woke community and i've learned every of them. it's maybe not godot CEO fault for this, but despite those red flag, they've choose the wrong decision by become one of the woke activist and of course other countries know nothing about woke especially japan, and those activist only show us the worst than the good those critic maybe not a long time, but it gonne be pain when you lost everything if you asking to me about my experience with their (woke) controversy, just do it and ask me why i hate them. this is already too long and i guess this is your turn to read and commenting again

I don't think Godot is dead either, but they definitely damaged their brand and resulted to at least one supporter cutting his funding. I'm sure others did as well.

agree, is that people talk about the company and engine like the same "entity", I don't know if I can explain correctly, but the way I see it is that since godot is open source, the engine/ source code is pretty much alive and well, and if the company godot "dies" then the engine would go on, even if it is by a fork or a different name.

There are lots more engines, those are just the major three. The thing is, not only will game devs have a harder time using the weaker engines, but ultimately they will face the same issues once the brand slips up.

Glad you liked the video.

Glad you enjoyed the video. When it comes to software and tech, even though there are so many options for us, in reality the best options for our particular needs are few in number. This is why I made my final suggestion, because all these companies will eventually disappoint us for one reason or another.

@@SabrPath truer words have never been spoken. thanks again! you made my day brighter and I hope you have a wonderful one yourself

I'm very against cancel culture. I will stop supporting certain people and certain companies for my own reasons, but I'm strongly against trying to get people fired or ruining people's lives just because they post something online or disagree with me. I believe in human growth, which means we should allow people to redeem themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Thanks for the comment. I suggest you delete recent Godot videos from your watch history. That will help tune your suggested feed.

There are no investors in Godot, only people with a shared and common goal.

​@wertigon there are investors on patreon. The community is investing. Tho a couple of companies like epic have also invested too.

@@cinderguard3156 Best way for companies to "invest" is to pay a developer or two to develop features on the engine :) Donations are not investments though, they are donations and should be seen as such.

I agree, that ties in with the end of the video. When it comes to tech organizations, they're all basically the same to me. Trying to measure which tech organization is the "lesser evil" is not productive.

​@@SabrPathTrue. but what makes godot different from the rest is that if the community doesn't like the direction that the company is going, they can fork the project into something new (Redot engine) instead of having to relearn a new engine.

Thanks, I try to make my videos useful. The best thing we can do from a bad situation is to learn from it.

I once worked for a big retail store and I got fired for negligence due to one mistake. That store is known for getting rid of people for any reason. That's the other extreme. We are human, we will make mistakes and we can grow from our mistakes, but we also need accountability and that accountability needs to be relative to the size of the mistake.

Yeah I assume the reviewer is likely a kid, but I can't treat the reviewer like a kid. Once I start treating people online like they're kids, that will make me look bad.

I'm very introverted but working jobs since I was 16 years old has helped tremendously.

There are a thousand game engines out there, and godot can and has been forked. Literally zero reason to use it, but you do you.

​@@khatdubell Okay, they are too woke for some tastes and they banned people from their forums for unjustified reasons. I still don't see how that is enough to stop using their engine altogether. And I know there *are* many game engines out there, but I'm not aware of one of Godot's quality and stability which is also open source. Also, as a beginner/intermediate Unity developer, I can tell you that switching an engine is not such an easy thing to do, and if you're in the middle of a project, it's close to impossible. And again, unless I'm not updated in all the details, I don't see enough reason for a Godot expert to let go of his knowledge (unless I'm mistaken, it's not an engine made by murderers and rapists, just very poor community management).

@@Frustratedartist2 as I mentioned, godot being open source means it can and has been forked. One can quite easily switch to a fork of it, even in the middle of a project. You won’t be losing any quality or stability, and you might even end up gaining something depending on the goal of the particular fork.

​@@khatdubell tho I'd say wait at least a week for the forks to update. I've checked a bunch of them and they have no changes yet. Support them still but until we see something substantial and see which ones are actually serious enough to not quit after a short time. I'm not gunna go through all of the trouble of switching if they devs of the fork just bail on the project a few days later. Not saying don't Support them. Just wait to see what the forks are made of before considering them worthy. I've seen projects forked out of drama only to turn even worse then the original. I'm not gunna fall into that again.

@@cinderguard3156 that is true. The dark side of foss.

Yeah it's fortunate for Unity, but this is also why I included the last bit in my video. It's only a matter of time for Unity management or Epic games to do something completely out of touch with their user base. Flip flopping from one engine to another on a constant basis is just not productive.

Godot is Open Source. How can one mismanagement switch userbase to closed source? Closed source would mistreat and no ability to fork.

Im still sticking with Godot. Or more likely, the Redot branch, whenever they open up the discord and I can ask how I can use it (and if there's a .net version) Idk how to use it from the source code. I just click with it more, and you never know if Unity is going to try to penny pinch again once they have the ability to.

Thanks for the sub!

Even then was really unprofessional and they even banned people trying to defuse a bad situation by just saying focus on the engine and not politics, this could do real damage to the project.

I know, right? Dehumanizing everyone you do not agree with is the way to go.

Keep bs out of game engines. Those rainbow people be messing with kids, exposing their parts on tv, destroying products, and mocking religions.

Maybe people aren't mad at you, maybe they feel sorry for you and the horrible choice you made, I don't get mad at a junky laying on a sidewalk shooting up.

It has nothing to do with human rights, wanting them or whatnot. If it had, the community manager in question would have respected them.

Thanks. Glad you agree!

My guess is the person who left me a review didn't expect a response. Either that or the notifications system on steam aren't very good.

Yes, and in this case, their audience is game developers, so they need to understand who their audience is. If they are a game studio who are selling games with stories that have specific morals and values, that would be a different story.