Brackeys Is Back! ...and on Team Godot!

Brackeys, possible the single biggest Unity tutorial maker, called it quits about 3 years ago. Yesterday, he announced his return to the gamedev KZbin space, but this time, he's working with the Godot game engine. A big win for Godot for sure.
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[@MrSofazocker]

Brackeys: "Finally, I can rest, I explained everything, everyone can make a game for free now" Unity: *changes license* Brackeys: *nani*

[@Thisisdcode]

Press "M" to switch teams imediately

[@DwigthAstacio]

hahahahaha

[@sicfxmusic]

Brackeys is creating new Stormbreaker to snap Unity out of existence. 😁😁

[@NotThatVinny]

Suddenly remembered the scene where Thanos equipped the glove and said he'd do it himself.

[@comedyreliefguy5112]

​@@sicfxmusicBrackeys IS the Stormbreaker

[@acgumut]

Brackeys really came out of retirement just to put the final nail in the coffin for Unity.

[@ZedDevStuff]

If you truly think that, you must have been brainwashed or something

[@AudioBoi1]

1st of April went away, but such jokes are still here to stay.

[@acgumut]

Im'ma be back in a few days to read the hate comments while eating my popcorn and sippin' my coke. See y'all in a few.

[@inanakmugan2302]

you guys being a little fanboy with this nail to coffin comments.

[@jamesmillerjo]

@@ZedDevStuff Have you heard about a word called Joke? There is a black one.

[@SergeantDorado]

A gigantic mammoth youtuber for Godot. This is huge.

[@PikminGuts92]

Brackets did help me learn C#. Now it's my career. I'm grateful for that.

[@bonkers622]

autocorrect?

[@midann]

Same

[@Reymax164]

His tutorial is just in basic level, but yeah, it's a good playlist for C# beginners. I'd watch it once I start learning C#, not now… I'll prioritize Java for college then Py for 2nd year. Although I can learn it in the side 🤔

[@RoughEdgeBarb]

I was always a little frustrated that when people were talking about free gamedev they would always say "Blender and Unity" when they weren't the same kind of free, glad that Godot is taking that place now.

[@mbg4681]

The farther you get from Stallman, the more dilute the message. There's a reason Free-as-in-Beer and Free-as-in-Speech is a common refrain for FLOSS devs. Also why there's an L in FLOSS.

[@user-id3fc8qs7y]

Didn't expect such good news for Godot's learning resources

[@Beryesa.]

“Enjoying what you do” FOSS FTW

[@ga1b_YT]

lol, weird complaining technique. *laughs at you in linux*

[@Beryesa.]

@@ga1b_YT Who's complaining :P

[@madduckling4436]

@@ga1b_YT looking for a fight? who's complaining? I'm utterly confused someone explain

[@rangergilan]

@@madduckling4436 They probably think FTW stands for "Failing to Wow" or "Falling to Waste"

[@ga1b_YT]

@@Beryesa. yea, sorry! I interpreted that sentence wrong, though that you say FOSS is not cool. Good luck and wishing you all everything good

[@starvr]

I am so excited for Brackeys return, and love the idea of learning Godot from him, just like I did with unity. Welcome home @Brackeys

[@FireFox64000000]

I would just like to congratulate the entire Godot community on this epic win. I really feel like this will bring in some new blood and help you all build strong bonds of unity together. So that y'all may enrich the entire electronic arts community. Truly this is an unreal experience.

[@GardenData61371]

Ba dum tss

[@atharvadeshpande4749]

Missed opportunity to say This will add steam to the entire electronic arts community.

[@WeenieWalkerGames]

Very glad to see this news! I know I've recommended the Brackeys Unity stuff to pretty much every new Unity developer, even over Unity's official tutorials. Can't wait to see what he puts out as this might be the impetus for me to actually start making the switch myself. I also saw the Godot folks themselves commented on his video, inviting his feedback using the engine, which should be great; even if he doesn't contribute a single line of code, finding "poor" user experience issues can definitely help the Godot team prioritize issues.

[@nevertoolate5325]

Hello! Nice to see you since ive given up Discord (and Unity!). I switched to Godot generally but I'm learning only slowly and for adventure games have just this week taken the plunge with AGS as its much improved. Hope all is well, I believe I'm subscribed to your channel so I'll stay updated. 😊

[@vectoralphaAI]

Brackeys is about to do with Godot exactly what he did with Unity. The Godot game engine made him excited about game development again so much that it made him come back to the game dev industry again. This is massive good news for the Godot community.

[@apertioopening3425]

Perfect timing for me! I just finished Blender Guru's donut tutorial and I was looking for a good up-to-date Godot tutorial for this awesome game idea I have!

[@del669]

When he left YT it was the end of an era, now he is back for the start of an amazing new era

[@prrithwirajbarman8389]

An era of open source? Cammon man, People need to volentier for this one. Open source version of Godot has never been for highly professional use. Since then It had only been developed by the hobbiests for the hobbiest.

[@jernaugurgeh451]

@@prrithwirajbarman8389 That's changing... There's been some pretty big indie hits made with Godot recently (Brotato, DomeKeeper, Cassette Beasts, Backpack Battlers), and the sequel to arguably one of the biggest indie games of recent years is being made in Godot (Slay The Spire 2). And with the highly-anticipated indie FPS Road to Vostok being ported to Godot from Unity, highlighting its potential for larger 3D projects, it can only get bigger.

[@del669]

​@@prrithwirajbarman8389 I'm a hobbyist developer and I love FOSS. I'm happy! I take it that you're a professional developer that doesn't like open source?

[@vectoralphaAI]

The Godot Era.

[@alexcampbell2988]

​@@prrithwirajbarman8389 majority of the most widely used pieces of software started off as a hobby, you will ever rarely get a professional pieces of software that changes how things are done...just another boring iteration of something done already

[@MomasGameDev]

Just wanted to say Game Dev isn't a competition between engines. We all just like making fun games. Use whatever you want we are not at war with each other.

[@pownder]

but I like warr

[@KarriKoivusalo]

Road to Vostok development and now Brackeys... Godot got some good things going for it.

[@KostasNostos]

Not only that but Slay the Spire 2 as well!

[@unbreakableloop]

Brackeys is going to cook Godot ❤ Engine

[@c.dudleygirard9503]

Your first set of tutorials for Godot was a huge help to me and setup the core material for the Video Game Programming class I ran. Always happy when people are putting out new tutorials to keep up with version updates with Godot that I can refer students to.

[@FR3NKD]

Godot is the new default game engine for indie game devs.

[@sumofat4994]

rofl not even close

[@MonsterJuiced]

It should be, but unreal engine is still easier and more feature complete.. by far.

[@Reymax164]

Not *yet* but there's a possibility in the near future.

[@AudioBoi1]

think again

[@tazz7390]

​@@MonsterJuicedit should have more features, considering it's a 60gb download. However, most of these features are presets for everything, and you can't make 2d games with it.

[@etherealregions2676]

I can't tell you how happy I was to see Brackeys hello again pop up in my notifications.

[@ThatElfNerd]

Having more people work on Godot tutorials is always welcome. I've been mostly using tutorials on my project, but there are some things that I want to do that either nobody's made a how-to on, or they've done it using a different version of the engine, so not all of the code will work anymore. Half the time, I gotta improvise with what I know and make a (probably) very scuffed setup. Obviously, not expecting tutorials for every single little thing I want to do, but the more that gets covered for different reasons, the more likely it is that someone will have figured out the solution to a problem that's similar to mine, and I can easily adapt it. And I imagine I'm not the only one who'd benefit from that.

[@orangelimesky]

This is going to be amazing for Godot. Finally the attention it deserves!

[@LesusX]

His unity tutorials are well polished and detailed. The new Godot tutorials will bring thousands of new devs. Godot games are about to go crazy can't wait!

[@Volt-Eye.]

Mike always seems to Be Happy when Talking of Godot. Isn't it Mike ?

[@gamefromscratch]

I like to think I'm genuinely happy talking about most gamedev topics. It's kinda who I am.

[@Volt-Eye.]

@@gamefromscratch I praise this kind. :)

[@mbg4681]

The world sure can use happy news nowadays!

[@AnImmortalBean]

Me: Starts using Unity Brackeys: Adios Me: Starts using Godot Brackeys: Hola

[@Freiheit-XXL]

Thanks Mike, Godot-Booster just started🚀...

[@touringrc5007]

I started learning Unity back in 2019, Brackey’s “cube game” being the first ever tutorial I watched. I learned game development the “hard” way by jumping into it blindly, meaning no programming experience whatsoever. I struggled as people were saying “Oh, you don’t need to know how to code to make a game.” And oh how wrong that was. I then of course learned how to program in C# and other languages which took me a while to finally see the connection between programming and game development. It's been five years now and I have learned a ton and gotten very comfortable with Unity and C# and am going to college for a degree in Computer Science. I by no means am an expert, I have a bunch more to learn. Although I don't want to switch game engines, I'm happy to see Brackey’s return and I’m excited to learn Godot.

[@zenmasters_games]

I remember, back like more than 10 years ago, I was just starting to learn Unity (back when Unity was the darling like Godot is today), and I was doing a Ping Pong multiplayer game, searching for a tutorial. Then I stumbled on Brackey's Ping Pong tutorial and the rest is history. So glad he is back. It feels like an old friends reunion. Cheers my friends 🍻

[@PlayBASIC-Developer]

It's nice to see some of the older-schoolers come back to game dev

[@lquens6668]

Oh, wow, this is absolutely awesome news

[@Shodan-0101]

This made my year!! Fantastic news!! Thx for covering it Mike!!

[@MrOnosa]

It's crazy. I never heard of this guy but apparently this is a big deal so I'll totally be following along

[@goldenpiece7087]

Brackeys is my all time favorite youtuber, he basically filled my childhood with learning. I will learn whatever he wants to teach. I just downloaded Godot to prepare for tutorials. Btw, I am not even a game developer😆, I work as a data scientist

[@xvrsl]

I'm a full-time unity developer and Brackeys' tutorials are exactly where I really got started. I tried to learn godot several times, and didn't really get into it. Now I have confidence as Brackeys is going to teach me again. I'm pretty excited!

[@KaasTVNL]

this is awesome! thanks for the news dude

[@owenlloyd2528]

Awesome. Thank you for this and also for your efforts in and for Godot.

[@gamefromscratch]

You're very welcome, thanks for continuing to watch!

[@thissagardevkota]

Its great that Brackeys is Back. Lots of my friend talked about and learned Unity from him. Also, I would like to take the moment to thank you. I learned LibGDX following your tutorials, then into Godot.

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

I’d been using Unity since v2 dropped all those years ago on a very off and on hobby/tinkering level, but it wasn’t until I watched some brackeys content that I started to feel confident in what I could do with Unity to at least participate in jams I was sad to see him go but I’d also fallen out of love with Unity at that point myself so it didn’t devastate me. Learning that the whole gamedev space sucked the joy out of the room for him was the real reason he left made a lot of sense to me. That made me even sadder. I don’t use Godot, in fact I think it’s safe to say that I’m not really a fan of the “Godot way” of doing things, but I wish everyone in the community the best of luck as Asbjorn skyrockets the engines popularity even further with his brand of content guides teaching a new generational wave of users and likely even teaching an older generation of users some new tricks. It likely won’t dethrone Unity or Unreal, but it is going to bolster the hell out of the Godot ecosystem.

[@AlwaysEast]

Awesome. I've not watched many of his videos but was sad to see him leave, and given that I started using Godot myself just a month ago am delighted to see him return and have swapped to Godot. Looking forward to what he has to release.

[@onesome6091]

you guys rock!!! thanks

[@airixxxx]

Man I watched the Godot GDC talk he recommended in that video and it was prophetic, the guy talking practically described what what Unity was going to do months earlier.

[@cintron3d]

I think this is the first time you reported on something I already knew. 😁 Thank you for spreading the word. I think it would be great to have a video dedicated to promoting all the other Godot focused KZbin channels so folks can go get subscribed and start learning.

[@Cyntacks283]

I'm a liiiittle sad he didn't aim for an engine like Stride, but it's awesome that he's back!

[@mikevanleeuwen4912]

Hyped! I watched this yesterday and when he started hinting at open source and godot, i tried to contain my excitement untill he actualy said it himself. When i mainly moved over to godot i would still watch his unity video's just because they are so much fun.

[@bes12000]

Can't wait to watch his video's, loved his Unity content.

[@mlmattin]

Exciting news! I'm really looking forward to his Godot content.

[@Candlestickstudio]

As a Unity dev for 10+ years and learned a lot from Brakeys. I started to convert to UE 5 (slowly but surely) when Unity was on fire. (Frustrating when you know what to do, but have no clue where to find it in UE 5. :D) I have watched his comeback video and understand why he is going for the free open-source game development software. Glad he is back on the scene. I always enjoyed his tutorials. :) Kind of wish he would do Unity to Unreal.. conversion, but there are others out there that started that when Unity was shooting their selves in the foot. Keep up the good work Mike. Always a good channel to pick up some great information.

[@Shadowthevampire]

I was LITTELARY 15 mins ago scrolling past his old goodbye video and was so sad like why did he have to leave and now all of a sudden I see this lol 😂 Greta he's back! ❤ Wow if he is on Godot Theres gonna be looooots of new tutorials for there.

[@SlimeShisho]

I logged on yesterday hoping for a Dani video but this is just as amazing😤😤

[@kaiser9321]

Just what I needed

[@AleksandarPopovic]

yes, and good move, and can believe

[@sasaha8389]

Stayathomedev is also another great ressource for godot tutorials and also godot tutorial channel itself

[@kingnekogon]

Man, I chose the perfect time to get into game dev. Been slowly throwing my hours at Godot (can manage one or two a day, roughly), mostly just following tutorials to get used to the engine and internalize what I can. Sounds like Brackeys is exactly the kind of channel I'm looking for for deeper dives. Looking forward to seeing how this goes. Doubt I can make my 3D open world fantasy life sim on Godot (expecting to need to go to unreal for that one), but I'd love to be proven wrong. At least I have a handful of 2D titles planned lol

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

About 10 years ago, I went to a free Unity seminar (well, sponsored by Microsoft since Visual Studio worked so well with Unity), and the idea of being able to create a game using a visual tool and a robust API without paying an arm and a leg to a soulless corporation was a game changer. I'm sure Brackeys attended at least a few of those seminars, it really got Unity off the ground with a growing community of devs that were happy to help out one another. If Brackeys can put out a seminar series for Godot through his channel, that would be fantastic, and it would likely help him out a bit.

[@herrpez]

Cool. Never heard of Brackeys before, when I got his announcement videos in my recommendations. And this video explains why! 😄

[@hipihypnoctice]

This is huge, he had so many tutorials I used to watch

[@Chronomatrix]

I'm still developing my game in Unity, but I've always wanted to learn Godot; this is a perfect opportunity to do so. I can see Godot becoming the 'Blender' of game development eventually, but it's still far away from it.

[@skiez7430]

yeah It just need a few more years. The limitations are the reasons why i picked Unreal

[@lyghtkruz]

I actually started learning unity from Brackeys and I was focused on 2D development at the time. One thing I was struggling with was what I would consider basic 2D functionality and it was super complicated to get it done in unity. Everything I found on Google said the same thing and I even found a Brackeys tutorial that went through it in depth. At that point I figured I should be looking for a real 2D engine and found Godot. I never looked back and am glad Brackeys is finally on board.

[@CrossCoderDev]

Much hype for this.

[@5topuntopublishing885]

Yeah!!!! That’s awesome I did tried Unity and Brackeys one of the reasons did! I work with blender and now for sure I’ll be giving Godot a try… Downloading Now! Also this channel of course!!! 😃👍🏽

[@perropequeno]

I was super interested in learning godot and leaving unity since godot's open source - 'moddable' nature was really interesting to me. 3 hours after I downloaded godot, Brackeys came back.

[@burgundyboysyt2272]

When I first started making games on Unity Brackeys was the first video that came up And it was so easy to follow

[@omg-the-best-crazy]

Half way into the video I was like please do godot, I had a feeling, and then boom! I am super happy!!

[@erickabuchanga6759]

Welcome back Brackeys....it will be great to learn from you again!!.....

[@Protech-ps6cw]

Can't wait for his first tutorial

[@ThinkWithGames]

Cool to see Brackeys joining the Godot tutorial community!

[@MrNotteNera]

the return of the King! It will be fun

[@TheRealBlackNet]

did not know him but gave him a follow.

[@nowherebrain]

saw this, followed.

[@dreamsComeTruePL]

Hopefully he will teach real-world mechanics/game design patterns, heavily focused on C# (as it's industry standard) and put some quality in these series. RIght now the official godot tutors seem to target more like an aspiring gamedevs/kids - using mostly gdcript with toy-like projects - that doesn't help the engine finding it's way to more established/mature studios.

[@Aeduo]

To be fair, studios don't really need video tutorials, but more complete/detailed text documentation. Most developers in industry also aren't paid to sit through tutorial videos, but to find text documentation and skim through until they find what they need. Maybe on their own time they can do these things. Detailed tutorials and stuff covering difficult topics that benefit from demonstration do help though with people who are trying to get in to using it and for people who are on their own trying to learn how to accomplish developing some game mechanic.

[@Dxpress_]

Godot tutorials typically focus on GDScript more because Godot's C# support is still not quite there yet, at least from what I hear. GDScript is still regarded as the "main" language, getting updates first, while C# and other supported languages might still lack a few API features. Again, that's just based on what I last heard a while back. Not sure if that's still the case today.

[@vectoralphaAI]

The industry standard is C++ not C#. C# was mainly used by Unity devs, but since this is about Godot GDScript is the preferred language.

[@KostasNostos]

Video said is about GDScript. I like C# better due to other applications and not just game dev

[@Dadwar_Dev]

welcome back bracky, let us begin game development once more

[@famnyblom6321]

This is fantastic! Unity helped Godot a lot. It sure made me try Godot and become pleasantly surprised!

[@AJMarraffa]

So excited!!

[@trueh]

These are really good news for Godot and its community 🙂

[@Thisisdcode]

Big w for godot

[@juanjesusligero391]

0:05:31 You didn't even try to pronounce his real name XD

[@gamefromscratch]

Yeah, no. Not even gonna attempt Danish.

[@juanjesusligero391]

@@gamefromscratch You coward XD

[@aldyreal]

Daddy came back and bring us a -bottle of milk- FOSS game engine tutorials now

[@berkefekeskin9172]

this made my day

[@hardwire666too]

I dig any kind of tutorials just being out there. Especially good ones. I've had close to zero exp. with Unity, and stopped using Godot after they removed the Visual Scripting. I'm great with logic, horrible at the writing part of writing code. Mostly due to a lack of practice, I'm getting old and time is a hot commodity. Point is I completely agree Godot really needs some good content and it's cool to see them come back. Even though I use Unreal Istill look forward to their videos.

[@Otakutaru]

Now I have NO EXCUSES

[@animegod2474]

this guy changed my life and when he stopped pushing video c# games stopped making sense welcome back Senior

[@mikicerise6250]

Awesome. I'm on Team Godot now too. Welcome back Brackeys. Let's goooo!

[@reygood1]

Wow. The dev community will be joyful. I'm hoping, Code Monkey will do the same.

[@skybyte4me]

How, I opened new tab to search for that Brackeys channel but upon opening the new tab it was right there in the very first video

[@jeppy4021]

Godot for the Win 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@diwakar_tsn]

Dani will be back soon

[@mustafamohamed8000]

i really miss him bro 🥲,seriously. --------------------------------------------------- 1 day later , Dani : why i switched to godot

[@Stargate16789]

I'm glad to see that the Godot Engine is continually improving. Hopefully, one day, it will surpass even Unity or Unreal (only time will tell). Brackeys will undoubtedly contribute significantly to its development. Ultimately, what truly matters is the game itself, not just the engine.

[@TheRealAfroRick]

That's amazing.

[@MAKIUSO]

the stars align. may the destiny unfold.

[@slendi9623]

was the happiest man on earth when that video dropped

[@hidemat5141]

Hype 🙌

[@windums560]

Will it help make Godot good as the unity

[@Sleeperspeepers]

Guess this is my sign to use Godot now. I was originally trying to learn gamedev using Love2D but Brackeys leading the way with Godot tutorials? I can't pass that up!

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Thanks, Unity!...wow, I never thought I'd be saying that again.

[@yellemonster]

Brackeys really is doing the Lord's work

[@tonylovesmusic6806]

BRACKEYS IS BACK!!!!

[@EricMaechler]

cool - i learnt so much tricks in unity from him - now godot

[@SpazeOfficial]

#TeamGodot

[@DaffyDuckTheWizzard]

The indie games industry is about go through a whole new wave

[@justlimeguy]

can you suggest a series for GD script 3? (like gd script that was there till godot 3) because there were many changes in script in gd script 4

[@user-rx3xl7zn1u]

@GDQuest has a lot of tutorials for Godot 3 including very in-depth paid courses.

[@Drejzer]

I think it's gdscript up to Godot 3.x and then gdscript 2.0 from Godot 4.0 onwards... Though I might be wrong. And "gdscript in Godot 3/4" is clear enough anyway.

[@ShiloBuff]

@@Drejzer You are right.