Godot's Popularity Explosion!

Every year for the last 5 years, the KZbin channel GMTK has held a game jam, one of the most popular game jams with over 7,000 submissions this year. Interestingly GTMK publishes some data on what game engines are used each year, so we can see how game engine popularity (at least for game engines) is changing year over year. The GMTK 2024 jam just concluded and this years' numbers are... shocking.
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[@luckygreentiger]

It will bleed over into professional spaces as well. Godot has a tons of promise.

[@cd2028]

I donate $5 per month to Godot and Blender. Screw giant corporations. Did a one time donation to krita and vlc. SUPPORT THE FOSS!!!! 🤘🤘

[@Cluxiu]

legend

[@joshallen128]

do dosbox and scummvm so old games can continue to work

[@noahbranch6127]

Legend indeed! I think I may follow suite

[@cd2028]

@@joshallen128 never heard of them. I'll check it out!

[@junechevalier]

Krita is great

[@TherronKeen]

Unity is transitioning into the "Find Out" phase of its corporate behavior.

[@leezhieng]

There's a local university here in Malaysia which started teaching Godot in their game dev subject this year. Before this they were teaching Unity.

[@diogenesnascimento6433]

same here in Brazil

[@tiacool7978]

The licensing issues with Unity probably got them to change. I'm loving all the support for Godot.

[@kokhorooi3003]

Which uni? I have taught Godot 3 or 4 years back for a short game design subject

[@Artem1zzzz]

Yeah which uni?

[@bmqww223]

on serious note, from this video what i learned is that godot is truely a good option for hobbyist now.... a indie gamejam doesnt show the true lean towards use at professional capacity..... i have used godot and it works but it lacks a lot of readymade asset marketplace and it is void of modern graphical benchmarks like raytraced , global illumination , shadows etc etc.....plus there is a dimension of monetisation too which paid engines give good support in app stores and main point is lack of console porting like ps4 , ps5 , ps6, nintendo switch(which is a must since usually indie devs use this enigne)etc

[@noiJadisCailleach]

We were one of those 383 UE games this year. lol. Goodluck to everyone who participated!!

[@RizaBochiza]

What’s the reason more people don’t use UE? I find it hard to believe that it’s because of the packaging time. Is it load times in general? People intimidated by its power? I don’t get it.

[@rudecoffee]

@@RizaBochiza Good question, i feel like UE's the easiest game engine to pick up and use with the power of blueprints. Trying out Godot for the first time this week.

[@ItsRagingRay]

@@rudecoffee packaging takes quite a while even just the bare bones third person template, and the minimum file size is large as well but MAN i love it, both it and Game Maker studio 2 but am taking some cheap classes purchase on humble bundle for GODOT4

[@LoneWolf-tk9em]

​​@RizaBochiza because unreal isn't required for making small fast games for game jams. Unreal mostly used for 3d~realism type games & not popular for 2D games. That's why Godot is eating Unity, not Unreal

[@hernanescudero6620]

@@RizaBochiza um UE is freaking huge and not suited for small pc , also 50+gb of storage without assets

[@deadmagnet6318]

We got the year of the godot explosion before the year of the linux desktop 😂

[@sean7221]

Year of Linux desktop is just around the corner, now at 4.4% market share

[@frankhuurman3955]

@@sean7221 I was going to say, we should do a vote on which % market share classifies as year of the linux desktop but then I remembered that the vote will probably take 10 years to complete and people will split up in camps to make their own polls about it.

[@logiarhythm6285]

@@sean7221 I don't think "market share" is the right term for open source software ^^

[@deadmagnet6318]

@@sean7221 aaany year now

[@mbg4681]

Linux represents the crushing majority of user interfaces, especially on the biggest gaming platform: phones. Meanwhile, MS still plays dirty BIOS games to gatekeep PCs and it's still kinda working, sadly.

[@passivestar]

I was here before Godot became the most popular engine

[@noiJadisCailleach]

I'll say the same when Quickmenu gains the same rep. Though it might already be there.... 🤔

[@TBOSS_YT]

Me too

[@BeardedDev90]

To be fair it’s been big since Godot 3. Back in 2019 it was big

[@mainbrainart]

Huge fan of your work man!!

[@galaxmii]

Same. Got into godot from 2020, and yes, I'm that old.🥲🥲

[@thatonefoxxy]

It's really nice seeing Godot finally take off as a slowly more accepted and generally more loved engine! It means a lot to its development as well and may also bring more resources to the development of said engine: this could also bring lots of improvments in stability, polish, and even better graphical fidelity over time (which I'd love to see as a primarily 3D game developer). I hope this engine does the whole underdog to one of the industry standard jurneys like Blender went through.

[@nolram]

Graphics won’t get a whole lot better in regards to fidelity since Juan said he doesn’t want to do that… and this engine everyone is betting on so much is basically entirely controlled by him :)

[@thatonefoxxy]

@@nolram fucking GOD

[@nolram]

@@thatonefoxxy Yeah it’s really sad - I’m a 3D person too, and it’s just super undeveloped and isn’t getting much resources either :( Right now there isn’f even 3D physics interpolation, a feature Unity has had since 2007

[@thatonefoxxy]

@@nolram this sucks so hard...........welp now I got a reason to develop my own 3d specific game engine frfr (just kidding probably don't have enough resources for that) but it really does suck

[@nolram]

@@thatonefoxxy Maybe O3DE will get their stuff together. Or maybe Crytek will come out with CE6 soon. Who knows!

[@JstJaybeingJay]

The fact that Brackeys made tutorials on Godot is enough to spike popularity of Godot.

[@vrabo3026]

It's been quite a while since he's uploaded. I'm not familiar with his previous upload frequency, but I'm surprised he hasn't done anything since those initial two videos on Godot.

[@TheManOFCulture155]

But he stopped doing toutorials about Godot

[@saulsantos4132]

@@TheManOFCulture155normal, he needs time to cook.

[@k_kubes]

​@@TheManOFCulture155 Hold on, let him cook

[@NihongoWakannai]

​@@TheManOFCulture155 i dont think he stopped, seems like his strategy now is to have infrequent but large releases.

[@llamaboss1434]

Unity setting itself on fire, and then Unreal covering themselves in gasoline but saying "psyche" and doing a cringe dance, happened at the same time Godot hit puberty.

[@MathyFey]

That's incredibly accurate wow

[@Damian_h]

what happened with Unreal? lol i cant keep up with these companies goddammit.

[@drmonstaa1]

What did Unreal do?

[@kritik_mb2144]

What did unreal do?

[@crouton-mt]

What did Unreal Engine do?

[@Beryesa.]

Godot keeps improving *Unity ruins itself Linux keeps improving *Windows ruins itself Best ad strategy for FOSS is probably just, existing (the competition shoots themselves in the foot) xD

[@Polygarden]

I fully agree. I wouldn't be surprised to see Linux Desktop PCs to be a more common thing in 5-10 years. Steam is already building a bridge towards it.

[@piotroszko2]

The current state of desktop linux can mainly be attributed to KDE/Gnome and Valve. The rest of the Linux environment doesn't care that much about the desktop. (i mean for casual user)

[@Beryesa.]

@@piotroszko2 the ecosystem is very diverse! :D

[@PsijicV]

Not so sure about Windows: Apple could overtake desktop PC niche spamming their pretty solid M architecture 2 years ago. But Linux still has a lack of software support because a lot of resources spread with "I will create a fresh new Distro / DE". It still has problems using Wayland after 10+ years passed

[@piotroszko2]

@@PsijicV Very true. The situation is improving, so it's a matter of waiting. From what I currently see, KDE is taking over the DE market on Linux (which I think is very good). Software support will be there, as there will be users. There are more and more users even without support, so things are moving in the right direction.

[@xbmarx]

I decided early in my gamedev journey that I wanted all my core tools to be open source. I'm glad I never learned Unity now.😅

[@SylvanFeanturi]

Are you making all your code open source, too?

[@computernerd8157]

@@SylvanFeanturi He does not have to make all his code open source. The license says the only thing you cant do is claim you made the opensource tools. Unless you port those tools then yes you have to make the tools open source. I use gcc and my code is not required to be GPL at all.

[@Buttons841]

@@SylvanFeanturi It's perfectly logical to believe everyone should have access to a pencil, but drawings still belong to the artist.

[@xbmarx]

@@SylvanFeanturi I am not a successful game dev so no one wants my code 😅 but personally, if I ever shipped a commercial game, I'd make it open source when I decided to stop supporting it. If you think that's hypocritical, it's fine.

[@the_procrastinator8606]

Based. Started w a subscription (Construct 3 💀) base model, went open source and then never locked back again Still amazes me how expensive some engines are when most of the time they have less capabilities and features than entirely free ones like Godot

[@TowfieFanous]

The one thing i would take out of this is, opensource is king on the long run. I hope the shift in more industries goes towards paid support, learning resources, and content. While the tools are openly available to give everyone an opportunity to plant their feet come up with great games, extensions, etc.

[@ginxxxxx]

king of a youtube channel's jam or of the market?

[@TRK--xk7bb]

Turn on CC at 0:01 👀

[@character640p]

KZbin did my man dirty.

[@4.0.4]

Gay from scratch > Trans fat

[@FunFreakeyy]

Guess KZbin CC is a cringy teen this time.

[@harmoen]

He's gay for scratch?? I thought he was a Godot guy.

[@grixxy_666]

Broooooo

[@_gamma.]

Just checked, I’ve been using Godot in the GMTK jam since 2018!

[@galaxmii]

Awesome. Been godot fan since 2020 🤚

[@bals1632]

What games have you made? And if you remember from what version have you been working with it? Just curious

[@jackprower2602]

I was here for the wait for godot 4

[@_gamma.]

@@bals1632 it would’ve been 3, I haven’t had any time to finish and submit anything the past few years but I’m usually using the latest version

[@ItsJoeyG]

First time participant of the GMTK game jam here. Our team used Godot and we jumped from Unity as a game engine. Our biggest advantage with godot was how lightweight it was, we had exports that took < 30 sec and could run on older machines. It also was way better to use with Git and Github for collaboration. Definitely gonna be using Godot going forward.

[@teakettle7021]

I’d bet money Brackeys unexpected return to make Godot tutorials had a HUGE effect on this.

[@dfx81]

Godot, Krita, and Blender are my go to tools. The fact that I can put them in my thumbdrive and all of them are ready to go is great.

[@Godot-Bro]

I, like many, switched from Unity to Godot after the pricing changes. Regardless if Unity fixed their problems or not, I am never going back! I love Godot so much, I find myself able to be much more productive and have so much more fun making games with it than I ever could in Unity. Certainly this is about personal preferences, but for some reason Godot just clicks with me.

[@Alpha13yt]

Username and pfp checks out

[@stedunn563]

I found the same thing, I've been making games on and off since I was 14(I'm 39now) and I've used all the tools, XNA where you have no drag drop 😂, DIV GAME STUDIO that was dos only.. and all the main modern engines and can honestly say Godot is my best experience, i didn't feel I'm fighting Godot, it's fun to use.

[@sean7221]

I kneel 🤝

[@Volt-Eye.]

Godot's Success will keep Competitors in Check

[@SixCoreSecond]

how? Godot doesnt offer anything that the competition doesnt already have in a better version

[@testacals]

@@SixCoreSecond It doesn't need to. It just need to be a good enough alternative for people jump ship if unity fuck it up.

[@UODZU-P]

@@SixCoreSecond It offers no fees which Unity and Unreal can't compete with lol

[@SixCoreSecond]

@@testacals well as you can see, Unity fucked up plenty and its still the only serious choice for industry projects... Like, its cool, but not a viable alternative for anything beyond a messy hobby project

[@YunisRajab]

@@SixCoreSecond and why isn't it viable? Plenty of successful studios have moved to godot with no problem

[@theejackalope]

Tbh tho jams tend to bring beginner devs, a section of those devs will go onto work in the industry. So that could increase market share towards Godot's favor. Im not saying high budget companies with be switching from unity. (yet at the least.) But if your an indie studio who wants to switch to or is built around the Godot engine your hiring pool is definitely growing.

[@pixelsamuel]

Not only did we make our jam game with Godot (*Going for Goldie*) - I've been playing a whole lot of the entries this year, and more than half of them so far have been Godot games, it's been amazing to see the evolution over the past few years!

[@JimmyGreenMachine]

I use Unreal at work and Godot for personal projects. I'm a long time C# dev but switched from Unity this year to Godot with GDScript. I really love working in Godot and never thought I would abandon C# but their own language is very nice and I just love writing all my scripts in Godot without compiling. I hope it stays lightweight and not go full bloat like the other engines. Even if you are a die hard C# dev, I would recommend trying Godot with their own language first, because you might just fall in love with it :D

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

Godot has C# version. Tried using GDScript, but it is really not my thing.

[@4.0.4]

I agree. I like C# and dislike Python, yet I liked GDScript. The way Godot is organized feels very clean and not bloated like Unity/Unreal.

[@DrEnzyme]

I retrained in Godot using GDScript but recently had to boot up the C# version in order to code a simulation that was computationally heavy. The C# version works like a dream and the only downside I can find is that Godot doesn't support real time debugging with it. Which is fine, because you can pick and choose what you want to code in each language and they're able to communicate with each other. So you can code certain things in GDScript and you'll be able to debug them, and code other things in C# and they'll run fast.

[@jmvr]

See, I really like C#, much more than I like the Python-ic languages (i.e. GDScript), so it sucks that C# support isn't fully there, but I'm at least glad it's fully functional, even if debugging isn't that good, nor is their C# documentation

[@jamesk3914]

nit at 4:32 , 43% is not a majority anymore, it's a plurality.

[@itsimperfectgames]

Seeing so many indie developers shifting to Godot is inspiring! Godot is definitely worth it, and I truly hope both Godot and Blender continue to grow and thrive in the future. They’re game-changers for the indie community

[@Chen_Ash]

Don't want to cool the excitement too much, but should keep in mind people use game jams as a way to try out new stuff. So while it's cool to see that a lot more people give godot a try, it won't necessary translate directly (but defiantly in some scale) to professional work and full published games with godot.

[@DanMizu]

Sure but if you end up not liking the engine or have a hard time with it you’d likely not have anything submit-able, where this metric was entirely on submitted projects. Likely that the metric of people who tried Godot for this jam is far higher.

[@Chen_Ash]

@@DanMizu sure, but the fact someone got to the finish line of a game jam doesn't mean they also come to the conclusion "i am now ready and willing to use this engine on a full fledged commercial game".

[@SLAVSMAKEGAMESMDC]

You are on a right track. Godot faces performance issues and resistance from certain communities. In contrast, Unreal will maintain its top position with high-quality content, and CryEngine’s recent updates will boost its standing.

[@mushroomcrepes4780]

Godot isn't targeted for those kinds of games anyway

[@Dogman_35]

@@SLAVSMAKEGAMESMDC Unreal is the least used engine of the big three though, and it's 100% because they refuse to focus on usability over features. They've been "working on" a proper scripting language that isn't visual scripting for almost 5 years now

[@arjix8738]

00:00 "Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Mike here at Gay For Scratch" 😳

[@AlexanderPrussak]

Yes Yes Yes

[@shadowflar3]

Haha yeah I saw the same. Auto captions for life!

[@PRIYANSHUJOSHI-p9d]

i love the emoji you added haha

[@arjix8738]

@@shadowflar3 actually, this is what he said if your captions had that text, then they are correct I had captions off, so this is literally what I heard

[@AlexanderPrussak]

Rejoice! Gay for Scratch has been said!

[@magnetomage]

It's also worth mentioning that a lot of people do game jams specifically to try out an engine they don't know... So the spike in Godot here could be a lot of people trying it out.

[@genderfr3ak]

Doubt

[@galaxmii]

​@@genderfr3ak I mean, some are, but some it of it is from Unity and their dumb mistake

[@vizionthing]

I cant see lots of devs thinking they'd give Unity a go for the first time - that user base was built over years, It would be good to see all the entrants asked if your assumption fits, I'd doubt that it would.

[@sean7221]

Yo that's alot of copium there

[@exilednivera]

90% sure that it caused by people abandoning unity for their actions and trying alternative. Also Unity's name being damaged and people suggest to try Godot more because of it. Plus if you watch absolute numbers on GMTK it goes like, 3k, 3.1k, 3.4k, 4k and then drops to 3.3k. So no. Its not JUST because they want to try something new its due to unity dev team fked up heavily their name.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

It shows a trend, just like the commit statistics for Godot that saw a similar growth increase last year. I think FOSS has this kind of moment where a project reaches a critical mass in usability, where the consequential popularity boost then causes an increase in eyes & minds on the development side of things, with more devs jumping in to improve it further. So it is kind of spiraling upwards until it reaches a point where it can easily become an industry standard. We've seen this with other software already, open source starting to dominate more and more. Really cool to see.

[@bes12000]

I been waiting for Godots 3D capabilities to improve before making my game as a few times I have imported maps, the map was small and the engine was struggling to render it with a 7900XTX with a 7950X3D and 64gigs of ram on a Gen 5 m.2 SSD ..lol

[@tutortomato]

Seriously?

[@couldntfindafreename]

Check LOD and make sure occlusion shapes are added where needed.

[@charlieking7600]

​@@couldntfindafreenameGodot sucks even when polycount is low. Road to Vostok, Abandoned Spaceship Demo and Third Person Shooter Demo are prime examples. They all suffer on cards they should run fine.

[@jeanmakesgames]

Godot for looooots of dev is in the end the best solution: you can modify it, it's free, it's reliable, you can make games on most of the platform in 2D and 3D, it's lightweight. The game industry try to create standard 80% of their user doesn't need (AI, meta, etc) to hook them to their system, so right now we're just seeing a clarification time and Godot is the clear beneficiary, and that's very nice to see! I also like Unity, it's a great software, but they have been too much out of their way and they pay the price of it now, little by little. I won't be surprise if next year they are under Godot in terms of game made for the GMTK

[@charlieking7600]

How often in your life did you modify source code of anything except your paid job?

[@jeanmakesgames]

@@charlieking7600 it depends the situation, most people won’t have the use of it but if you publish game on console with your own company you can fork Godot and create your own engine so it works with the nda that company are making you sign to publish game on their platform, and that’s an option no other engine (at least that I’m aware of) let you have :) you can also change the physics without to have to recreate a full engine on your own, etc but I agree that 95% of developer out there won’t need this

[@Lyazhka]

​​@@jeanmakesgames creators of ori games and no rest for the wicked are actually using their own version of unity! at least according to digital foundry

[@jeanmakesgames]

@@Lyazhka yeah unity authorize that but for some setting you need to pay a big chunk of money (having a specific licence) :)

[@neoncyber2001]

I certainly hope to see more full releases in Godot, and some organizations with products and services facilitating console releases with Godot

[@SunJaycy]

5:51 but it does prove alot of people (or new devs) are choosing Godot for jams. you use your most comfortable engine in a jam. exciting to see this. Unity next year will definitely make some huge changes because of this. We have to realise they will have alot more in-depth numbers, and will see users dropping. Going to be interesting to see what happens

[@OctagonalSquare]

You use the one you’re most comfortable with, or the one that provides the most speed. Unity is quick to get started but Godot is FAST to start a new project in. It is great but also just had a bit of a bonus in time-crunch development like jams

[@Limdorn]

It´s not a surprise. A lot of people, including myself, abandon Unity to not trust them anymore. Godot will be more popular every day because now it´s more easy to found courses, videos, examples than one year ago and its updates are awesome. Unity setting itself on fire.

[@jeanheonofficial]

Meanwhile at Godot:GAS! GAS! GAS! Meanwhile at Unity:Is Fine!

[@JairusC]

Ayooo, Unreal at the 5%. Let's goooooooo. (Unreal Engine user here, lol.) Love seeing Godot on the up and up as well. The fact that it's open source is going to be HUGE for a lot of GameDevs who prefer using that engine. I'm looking forward to seeing the growth of Godot over the coming years. I'm hoping it'll have an explosive and consistent one like Blender. Thank you for the wonderful video!

[@jeffj7287]

Its going to be interesting to see the results in 2025 and 2026.

[@shoop9274]

I imagine a lot just wanted to give godot a go for the game jam but usually use unity or unreal

[@lillybyte]

I was here almost 8 years ago... and can't wait to get the F out of Godot. Over 8 years of "waiting for Godot" and the engine still can't be used for anything more than 3D prototyping and making demos. But who knows, 10 years from now... someone might finally be able to @ me and say, "Look see, Godot CAN make 3D games!" but it only took 'em 20 years to get it functionally usable. If money wasn't tied to me being in it, I would have dropped this anchor like a hot rock. Really wish I had adopted Unity or UE back when...

[@marcusn254]

I just want better 3D-capabilities and I would be 100% onboard Godot. I'm hoping it will become the Blender of game engines.

[@drinkwwwaterrr]

Keep in mind mostly indies participate in GMTK, at a professional level Godot is basically the same since unfortunately Juan insists on making the engine "minimalist" so it lacks tons of basic features needed for bigger games.

[@jacksmith4266]

The question is: do you need a bigger game or a successful game?

[@charlieking7600]

​@@jacksmith4266for sucessful game he definitely needs something more original than another "retro" "stylized" trash.

[@CatNIP-IR]

I just started learning godot as my first game engine a few days ago and I'm loving it.

[@jeghamjegham]

the community managers are weird tho, i dont know why the heavy association with the rainbow community, its a game engine what does it have to do with people's genitalia? the official godot discord doesnt even have the actual godot logo, and ofc you get perma banned if you ask why or disagree

[@111riffi]

it's more so their way of saying "we accept anyone regardless of sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. You won't be harrased here"

[@MartinRomero-i6b]

Oh yes, because when I go to a Godot community, what I want to have down my throat is gender politics, not game dev resources.

[@sean7221]

The LGHDTV cult is something that should be shunned

[@ocmetals4675]

I was on the fence about which engine to choose and then brackeys came out with his video and I knew that Godot was the future so I went with it and haven't looked back.

[@graythistle]

I love it. Godot has become easier to get into, too. There's an official game that teaches you GDscript and it's a great beginner introduction. For most Indie games (2D art, simple 3D art styles) it is a perfect fit. Why worry about a proprietary engine messing with you at any time?

[@stephenmackenzie9016]

UE probably hit the 5% threshold to be plotted individually

[@paulimriss]

Insane to see this, I'm in the game dev community for almost a year, tried construct and gamemaker but felt in love with godot, I also use just Open Source softwares in my workflow, Godot, Aseprite, SFXR and BeepBox are like 90% of what I have in my games!

[@mexicanburrito2979]

Love Game Master's Toolkit, no one is a bigger master of video games than that guy!

[@brunoverissimobrito]

We need to know how to read data... It's obvious that Unity pissed of lots of indie devs and the internet community "cancelled" Unity. And, although, what actually matters is the market per se, it's pretty safe to say that Unity did not have YET a big knock down ( 1 big indie franchise moving to Godot is not that a game changer ). However, this shows that more and more people are willing to try Godot and other engines, which will, MAYBE, turn the market on Godot's favor in the near future (say like 6 - 7 years). Thus, to keep the momentum, Godot must keep improving and making things a lot easier for developers to speed up development and quality, while keep boosting marketing to link more and more Godot to quality. This is the real game changer for Godot, and it's that crucial time that they can't make any major mistakes. Rooting for Godot....

[@ulrich-tonmoy]

Godot Need A better physics engine Unreal need optimization in game build and the engine itself as its just getting bigger and bigger

[@jeanheonofficial]

Godot needs a visual scripting system. I know it already exists in Godot with addons like Orchestrator but I find it's not super user friendly especially for 3D artists and industries that want to create real-time 3D demos without necessarily getting their hands on programming.

[@everythingcouldbesimplify818]

Captalism vs Socialism we all know that captalism is the only way to survive no matter if socialism is more beatiful it does not work in the long run.

[@blu3260]

Unity's decision to break user trust is the best ad godot has gotten so far

[@23Puck666]

I think this is actually a translation of new game devs joining the market, instead of old devs switching from other engines. Since Godot is very simple and begginer-friendly we will also see a lot of Godot.

[@hashtagrex]

look at the raw numbers for unity. it went down hard

[@st.altair4936]

FOSS is really the only permanent solution to software. Corporations will keep messing up (yet increase prices), but open source software won't.

[@charlieking7600]

What a sweet summer child. Just take a look how actually open-source software develops. Take a look for a GNOME, which is pure LGTBQ agenda without quality software development. Or how Rust (language without specification and alternative compilers!) was forced into Linux kernel, so now GCC development is slowed down with unnecessary Rust frontend. Or how databases change licenses to proprietary. Examples: Redis, CockroachDB. Or how projects just get bashed into endless forks. Examples are GNOME, nginx and Linux distribution, especially when it's hysteria-driven development (take a look for anti-systemd distributions). And remember, some projects are so complex they can't be produced by enthusiasts. Do you know any serious commercial applications of FreeCAD? I don't. You shouldn't give all hopes to open-source. It's not solution to all world problems.

[@lotwar]

I think for now the spike could also have to do with the fact a lot want to try it out. As an example In frontend web development devs try so many different and fun frameworks but at their actual paying job it was back to react or angular. But for sure it will be interesting to see how this evolve over time, and if the market will adapt this new engine.

[@Davo32795]

I have noticed a lot of jobs posting asking for Godot experience as well

[@leeoiou7295]

lol. where? maybe fake jobs. Don't underestimate how far desperate godot fanboys will go to make godot look popular.

[@Fanndch]

​@@leeoiou7295Ok but you don't have to spend half of your comments on this channel dumping on Godot, are you good?

[@cfffba]

@@leeoiou7295 Oh come on. Fake jobs? You're reaching... It's clear that there are studios that make lots of money on Godot games and I can imagine that some of them could maybe afford to hire a dev or two. Although it's not hard to guess that there's orders and orders of magnitude more job postings for Unity and Unreal. Massive adpotion by commercial studios isn't coming any time soon.

[@kesorangutan6170]

@@leeoiou7295 Actually Tesla was hiring people with Godot experience since they use Godot for some of their systems but other than that I saw no actual game studio hiring godot developers :D (not to mention Tesla is a bad place to work at). Imho many indie game companies will switch to Godot in 3 or 4 years. The biggest roadblocks of Godot right now are the lack of asset store and some 3D stuff.

[@sean7221]

Unity fanboy is jealous

[@devrandvar]

I am happy to see Godot getting more of the user base that it deserves. I used Unity for many years and just recently switched over to Godot and Unreal. It is not surprising that Unity always dominated these as quick prototyping is really what I consider it to be best at. I think that is a big part of what always attracted new people to it as it is pretty easy to throw together a quick prototype that sort of works. Although I think that Godot is better then Unity in many ways especially as a beginner engine. Godot hits a good blend of simplicity while enforcing a good structure on a game so that it might not turn into as much of a complete mess as a project can in Unity. Now Unreal is kind of amazing and perhaps my favorite engine, but I understand why it does not have much of a showing here, it is more rigid and requires way more of a planned out workflow so prototyping is not really it's strength.

[@jaywalmoose9623]

You can skip from 1:10 straight to 3:07 and miss nothing important. At least if you look at the graph for a few seconds

[@MedusaZenovka]

More Godot Devs means more people to learn from and hopefully faster development.

[@Reymax164]

On the other hand, it's fair if their reason is Godot being a good engine for quick development for things such as game jams.

[@Dr.Bamboo-dev]

Godot is a good engine in general. Fight me.

[@Reymax164]

@@Dr.Bamboo-dev *_yeah 👍_*

[@Disthron]

Did the Unity shenanigans only happen late 2023? Seems like longer ago than that?!

[@Kiyuja]

I wish Godot the best but ultimately it doesnt mean much. Godot made some questionable decisions in the past that keeps it from effectively combating Unity. I personally dont know why Godot focuses so much on mobile and web instead of improving 3D rendering. I think the focus is completely wrong and Unity has gotten so much more performant in the last years...

[@sean7221]

L take, remove yourself

[@Kiyuja]

@@sean7221 didnt ask, cope harder

[@DrEnzyme]

It's a staggering indication of just how badly Riccitiello screwed up. And this isn't just in the indie scene, major companies have stopped using Unity to develop new products too (mostly in favour of Unreal) and the full result of that decision won't be realized for a couple of years. Trust is a currency that is worth its weight in gold and John decided to throw it all away in typical CEO fashion. I won't be coming back, Godot is a safe bet in an industry that is determined to keep shooting itself in the foot.

[@_I-OvO-I_]

John did his job and bounced. Be mad at the board.

[@ZaGodmon]

Continuing at this growth rate, by the year 2027 Godot will be 109% of the GMTK Game Jam!!! Fun with statistics aside, I have been working in Godot and been loving how beginner friendly it is. I work in Python and really happy how similar GDscript is.

[@muuubiee]

I think quite a few moved away from unity from the whole ordeal in 2023... However, I think most of those just returned to unity after the rectifications, and that john ceo guy getting fired. Godot saw lots of money poured into it, and it's probably the python of game engines. Easy to make very small prototypes, especially 2d, but not super great otherwise. So, Godot sees much more use in game jams because it's fast to make simple 2d games for game jams.

[@blorg7174]

Kind of explains why Godot has been leaching away the gamemaker slice of the pie over time.

[@ViktorsJournal]

Apart from the unity things, 2023 is when godot 4 was released so it's not that strange that 2024 has higher numbers for it would be my assumtion too.

[@fanis4093]

The timing could not have been more perfect. The huge drop of Unity is the harm it did to itself but Godot could not have capitalized it if it did not had Godot 4 on time.

[@couldntfindafreename]

Make these pie charts from the number of early access or released titles weighted (multiplied) by their Steam scores (percentage of up-votes).

[@fanis4093]

These data are from Game Jam. Most of these games will never make it to steam. So the absolute numbers have little meaning but the trend is the important point. More people are trying Godot than before.

[@Paul-zh2jp]

The only people still using Unity are people who had already been using it for years and didn't feel like learning a new engine, which is understandable. But those people aren't necessarily choosing the engine over another; they're choosing familiarity, existing code, etc... Godot and Unreal are simply better engines. For 2D and simple 3D, Godot is the best engine in most cases. The dev speed alone was enough for me to switch. Instant startup, instant updates while testing, instant builds.

[@TayoEXE]

I still use Unity because I'm an XR developer. I use Godot for side projects.

[@kormai1501]

@@TayoEXE Did you ever try godot XR? and how does it compare? (just for info)

[@SergeyKloninger]

Is the network build development fast enough in Godot?😊

[@just_yuumi]

Professional Unity developer here. Made a few simple games in Godot and played around with Unreal Engine 5, still sticking with Unity for my solo projects. Godot is slowly getting there, but at the moment has a lot of missing features / random clunky for no reason stuff / a few critical bugs and issues, and sadly from what I read about the vision of the core developers, isn't really going to replace Unity anytime soon, because they really like to reinvent the wheel just to make it square instead of circle. It's pretty good for making tools though, I would even say better than Unity, especially given its open-source nature. I even made some tools for my main job with it. Unreal is a huge mess of an engine with lots of performance and stability issues (crashes once every few dozens of minutes, runs my GPU at 90-100% even with mobile target and everything disabled for the viewport renderer while I can easily open and run a much more complex scene in 6 Unity Editor instances at once for the same GPU load). IMO it also has a pretty bad workflow for anything that is not an FPS / third-person action game, so as long as you aren't doing FPS/ third person action game that takes advantage of Lumen and Nanite it's not an optimal choice. To top it off they have a worse license than Unity in terms of the revenue share. But yeah, Nanite and Lumen are really good and make me jealous because it enables good GI for procedurally generated game worlds. I don't think Unity is perfect either, in fact it has many problems that Godot and UE don't have, but it has the best low-mid end performance, the best workflow for a small team at least until Godot 5 is released (or maybe even 6 or maybe until some other competitor wins it over), the best cross platform support and the best ecosystem (Asset Store, first class C# that works really well with Rider, third-party plugin support, etc.) As for instant startup being a pro, the reason behind that is actually a huge con. Both Unity and UE take a long time to startup for a reason, and that reason is processing the meta files and cache (UE packs metadata in .uasset files, Unity does it with the dedicated .meta files). Godot unfortunately doesn't have those and uses relative paths and magical strings instead which is a huge pain in a VCS workflow context and refactoring. And also after the first startup Unity opens even huge projects in under a minute unless you pull some huge amount of changes from the VCS, which is not critical at all because Unity doesn't usually crash and there is usually no reason to open your project more than once/twice a day unless you made some memory leak in your code. As for the compilation time, as long as you split your project into multiple assemblies it's comparable to Godot, but at the same time Unity also has better runtime editor sync and debugging capabilities from my experience (like debugging multithreading and shaders) Instant builds feature is good for testing, can agree with that. But the trade off is the production performance which is already super bad in most of the modern games, so no reason to lose even just extra 5-10% of it. And the only times the build time matters is when you try to debug some runtime plugins that work fine in the editor, but don't work in the runtime environment or if you are working on a custom export pipeline, otherwise you just hit the build button and go eat a lunch, and by the time you come back it's already done.

[@dreamcatforgotten8435]

@@just_yuumi Good points, but the only complaint I have with your post is the mention of .asmdef If you already know ahead of time what folders and namespaces you want to use, .asmdef is a good solution. However, if you use a sandboxing workflow (where you test things in folders and migrate later), and may need to move files around, it can be a huge workflow-killer. It's probably worth it for experienced Unity developers that know precisely what modules will be needed ahead of time or already have reusable Assets and a fast workflow, but otherwise its as much of a workflow-stunt as not having .asmdefs and having longer compile times since you have to remember where things were placed and also remember to make a new .asmdef and include the required libraries.

[@goobda_]

the way people fixate on the engine really baffles me.

[@sean7221]

You would understand if you developed games

[@hashtagrex]

thats like saying delivery drivers fixate on what van theyre driving. its literally their job to care

[@goobda_]

@@sean7221 i both work in game dev and develop my own games lol

[@redalchemy7322]

It was kind of perfect timing on Godot's part. Just as it reached a good level of maturity Unity committed to friendly fire against their own customer base Speaking as a former Unity refugee... I'm not going back

[@Dr.Bamboo-dev]

👏Lets goooo!

[@charlieking7600]

Don't forget that most "switchers to Godot" are hidden procrastinators.

[@MrERJ1992]

​@@Dr.Bamboo-dev Are you only cheering because the OP stated he won't be coming back to Unity?

[@sean7221]

I'm cheering because he made the right decision in supporting FOSS

[@anicepineapple9067]

Thats pretty nuts, honestly, I wasn't expecting that big of a change!

[@paluxyl.8682]

Game jams means not much, they are often just for fun or learning. I personally doubt that it's possible for most of the indie devs to make nice looking 3d games in Godot. I would suggest to use Unreal or Unity.

[@brmawe]

Godot is on the RISE!!! And it's only getting brighter.

[@nTu4Ka]

I'm happy for Godot but it still lacks asset store and still is far behind Unity and Unreal.

[@SamFreelancePolice]

No disrespect at all intended, but I'll believe Godot is increasing in popularity when I see studios using it to ship games and when job offers require Godot experience. Solo indie beginner devs using more Godot than Unity doesn't really mean anything in the real world.

[@luciusrex]

They'll never be that unity offers enterprise support where godot doesnt

[@SamFreelancePolice]

@@luciusrex sadly very true, also why Blender is not used in professional game studios. It's a shame, I'm rooting for Godot, but as a game Dev student I need to be realistic and focus on what will actually give me employment.

[@nopnop4790]

Wow! It's almost like if Unity had done something bad, like anti-dev/anti-competitive or something! Who could've guessed?

[@kaustavp]

I participated for the first time in this jam. And all thanks to godot i could complete a game and submit in half the time alloted. And my game had very less bugs than many unity games 😂

[@fille.imgnry]

I wish it had a editor that can run the game like Unity. It is very frutrating to not have the ability view the game in the editor while running. Also having a dynsmic language as the main language is not ideal imho. But when they fix the editor to show the game duribg runtime i will give it snothrr try with c#, maybe. ❤

[@goawayinternet]

been using Godot since 2017... glad to see how much its grown since then :D

[@jamesroome4485]

This is a meeting that could of been an email…

[@liambelh9556]

Glad to see the Unity refugees standing up to the horrible monetization scheme

[@BradsSpace2]

Unity really fucked it with those pricing changes. It gave people a reason to at least try Godot and they realised it's pretty good. Unity started as an engine most used by hobbyists before it started to get used in larger productions (still not that common in my experience), so I think Godot is set to take over that space within a few years

[@chinogambino9375]

Makes sense, even if these are not commercial games its shows people have lost confidence in Unity due to their change in terms. Why would you learn and invest in an engine that can be rug pulled with new versions? I hope Godot and other opensource projects dominate every catergory of software.

[@rafaelmellobenvenutti5433]

The thing that makes Godot truly unique is that opposite to other engines when something breaks it's usually not your fault, the engine is just full of nonsensical bugs that haven't been fixed for years. Believing this engine will become the industry standard for successful games is like believing that communism will one day work...

[@NihongoWakannai]

Yeah you're right, the bugs in godot can be horrendous and the error messages completely lack information. Pushing to git regularly is a necessity just to escape the engine messing up your project. I heard Godot 3 was more stable but my experience with Godot 4 has been a lot of instability

[@JacobDragyn]

My Game Jam team used Godot. Among other advantages, as a novice I found Godot much more intuitive to understand.

[@AttractiveClock]

Godot is becoming the blender of game engines. I am sure the percentages don't match real world use outside of a game jam but I do believe this is an accurate depiction of an overall trend. I would be interested to see more stats on actual usage/adoption. If I had to guess I bet a lot of people are still using Unity but also have plans to and/or are actively exploring other game engines.

[@Dr.Bamboo-dev]

The way I see it, the participants of the jam are future game devs who are just starting out today.

[@WavemStudios]

Unreal Engine is creeping in slowly ...

[@MrButiier]

Oh yeah Godot is just so easy to use, I focus on UE5 but learned Godot because of my hate for unity and ultimately such a great engine and highly recommend it to new devs.

[@robvp71]

Nice material for the Unity CEO.. maybe we did do something wrong? ;-)

[@Derangedteddy]

Unity can kick rocks. I'm building my game in Godot. It's easier, it's free, and it's not going to rug pull me years down the road for profits.

[@totfosk]

thanks for the video man

[@lptf5441]

Wait, so out of 5259 entries, UE didn't even make a labelled section of the pie? How is that possible? From what I understand, UE makes up about 25% of games released on Steam, and Unity about 12%. So is it that UE is just used for larger commercial PC products maybe?

[@blorg7174]

UE is much more often the go to for professional dev when compared to indie dev.

[@paluxyl.8682]

The numbers of game jams participants are not an indicator for any indie games numbers. Not many talk about it, but the UE is very often used by indie developers. I see daily at least 5 new indie games that was made in Unreal, also at least 5 new indie games that looks that they was made in Unity ... but not many that looks they was made in Godot (I would say less than 1 game in a whole week). I personally would say that it's easier to make a 3d plattformer in Unreal than a similar game in Unity.

[@shubhamvyas9459]

Godot be like: Ah yeh, Ah yeh. Big stepper, Underground methods.....

[@CptTiki]

When it was Indy unity.. and now that it’s coorporation Unity

[@mjdevlog]

Construct 2/3 has a real shot of becoming a decent engine for game jams, especially for 2D, with the simplicity of the no code approach. Too bad it was paid, and still is right now, subscription based even. Game Maker Studio 2 came too late to be free.

[@vcdgamer]

Gdevelop too.🙂

[@anth5189]

Hopefully it will increase interest and development of GODOT. Blender and GODOT mean more people can choose game development with zero cost. Games can be sold for less. The developer can make more money for themselves. You are not paying subscriptions to game engines. You don't necessarily have to have a third party taking a chunk of your profits. It is a win win.

[@nTu4Ka]

Yeh. That Unity decision last year to retroactively force studios to pay was stupid as hell. That CEO was dumb af.

[@donaverboxwood]

I'm guessing one of Godot's main advantages in terms of game jams is that it opens and loads projects very quickly, which is a necessity when you're on such a tight time limit

[@DanCreaMundos]

unity really messed everything up with what they did, and since gdscript is similar to c# and they support multiple languages, it isn't such a weird change to go from unity to Godot

[@JSiuDev]

Steam and mobile platform are the main reason so many get into gaming and lead to the explosion usage of Unity and Unreal engine. However the 2 Us licensing change just make it unsustainable in mobile platform.

[@felsenstern]

would be cool if the Unity management would come to their senses, but I doubt that will ever happen again, they are only after the money and don't care for the engine.

[@Cameo221]

Based on me playing many of the jam's games, the chart definitely checks out.