Godot Engine Unveils It's Future Goals | This Week in Godot

[@stayathomedev]

💰 Learn To Code With Coddy.tech ►► coddy.tech/?from=StayAtHomeDev

[@nanovoidalt]

#1 - We need to show the world that Godot isn't constrained to simple graphics. Just because Unreal Engine looks good by default, doesn't mean we have to forget that games used to look good by talent and skill, not the engine itself. 2025 is going to be huge for Godot

[@naturallynemo]

Funny thing is unreal doesn’t even look to good but default. Only if you really take time with it. It’s overly forward with a lot of the optimizations it has on by default but still has trouble opening a new level without lag. Same with unity. I’m sure these features of value but for smaller teams it really is all about art direction and hook. As someone who has done a lot of game jams you see similar games made with same mechanics and theme and Godot games always seem the most developed it shortest amount of time visually in my experience. So amen basically but it’s worse godot isn’t just not a disadvantage in visuals. It’s minimalism is an advantage

[@nanovoidalt]

​@@naturallynemo The video game industry is slowly falling into using Unreal Engine as the default because of it's graphics. While your points were valid, from my professional experience, the most important 2 groups of people in video game industry are: Executives, and the average gamer - they both fall for "good" graphics, even if it means all the games looking the same.

[@naturallynemo]

@ I dont see anything I disagree with. Unreal is bloated but can render specific cases faster. But overall seen a trend of gamers and devs realizing oh art direction is way more important. And by default I think godot games look a lot better. thats probably what I disagree on actually. Unreal games do not look fantastic. Only with a skilled artist and assets. and even then often times unreal gets in own way producing unsightly artifacts on systems optimized only for realistic graphics

[@nanovoidalt]

@@naturallynemo I think I am becoming too jaded by the AAA side of industry and it feels like we're far from the golden days of Art Direction being something we all understand as a requirement, not something only AA and indie titles care about. Slay the Spire 2 and Road to Vostok are the 2 Godot games to watch

[@QUIZTIME184]

Yes true it uses filimic and good sun light setting by default but, godot uses average settings to improve performance by default...

[@LuftikusGames]

Wow! I almost spit out my coffee when you mentioned Dragon Gate. Been a fan of your channel privately for a long time and never thought I'd be a part of it. Thanks for the shoutout, made my day :)

[@stayathomedev]

Great work! Thanks for watching!

[@TwinTailDigital]

Ohh, I vote for #3! Thank you so much for featuring my game 😻This was such a nice surprise!

[@stayathomedev]

Great work!

[@TwinTailDigital]

@@stayathomedev Thank you so much!

[@InvasionAnimation]

I must say I really like the new format for these godot games of the week video. They have so much additional value now. Great job!

[@Matthew_Singer]

Just ported my game i made in unity that I been working on for 8 months. It took me over 3 weeks and is even better :) I can`t wait to release it.

[@BeardedFriends]

3d?

[@gameboy9402]

#5 seems like something up my alley. Also, I love the new format! It's an awesome update on not just cool projects, but more insight on the community. Keep ip the great work!

[@eliamzg]

As usual it's a pleasure to see such display of talent. Due to personal preference I'll vote #4 I love games where I play with friends

[@cookiemonster208]

Number 4 looks like endless fun. That's my vote this week.

[@moonbather4724]

I also switched from Unity to Godot after their poor decision making. Don't regret it at all, despite porting and relearning an engine. I had no idea StS2 devs did the same thing, that's awesome! Great look for Godot to have such a cult classic IP repping it.

[@sino_diogenes]

cannot get over the way this guy pronounces Godot

[@dermond]

Yeah it's Godot

[@toolazytobeoriginal4587]

​@@dermond Nah it's Godot

[@sawhsarkapaw]

No no. It is supposed to be Godot.

[@WilllemDaFriend]

Waiting for Godot

[@mr.hashundredsofprivatepla3711]

You guys pronounce Godot?

[@AB-ur8lj]

love your contact man

[@chaws314]

The Unity Licensing debacle got me to switch to godot and I am so happy it did.

[@Matthew_Singer]

I was looking for this comment and found it straight away. I been using unity 10 years and changed to GoDot around 2months ago... Never looking back :)

[@Jad3D3v]

I can't personally decide this week, everything shown is equally impressive in their own right,

[@letokauler9740]

#2 looks super slick, I just couldn't tell what the gameplay was. I'll vote for #4

[@excessiveminimalism6308]

LOVING the new video format. My favorite is #4 🚕

[@Gothicpolar]

Loving this new format! Especially the Godot tip is a nice touch! Vote goes to #2!

[@Darthpirlus]

#4 Dragon Gate is a Mashed clone! Love it!!

[@Digitalman42]

I really like your new format. I look forward to a new episode each week. Keep up the good work. I hope my game gets featured some day when it's ready.

[@alienPear]

My vote goes for #4 Dragon Gate - I'd love to play it with my bros.

[@stephansteidl903]

Game Number 4 looks really fun, can't wait for the release!!

[@ragebbop7130]

Just a quick comment to thank you for your impact in the Godot scene, your tutorials are great, these videos are awesome to make the community of Godot users feel alive and inspiring ! You're doing a wonderfull job ! (don't push too hard tho, it must be a lot for one person !)

[@TaterTechStudios]

Wow! All 5 are really impressive, but I'm going to have to go with #4. Good luck @LuftikusGames !

[@SAIGamma]

one vote for #4, pretty nice and simple fun game for a game night

[@GameDevelopmentCenter]

I'm liking this new format! Concepts like these are very valuable and something that has been missing in Godot community. I hope you can keep this up for a long time to come :) About 10 days ago another Godot game was released on steam, in early access. Space Survivors. I'm not the creator, it was made by one of the community members of the Game Development Center. Just passing on the message here :)

[@rightanglegames]

Number 4, the racing game looks like a lot of fun!

[@CrossfacePanda]

Game #4 gave me some classic Micro Machines vibes, which I like. That said, I’m voting game #5, as the concept feels original, and we could always use more twists on typing games.

[@mehdifardadi1905]

#4. It looked really fun😎

[@Fremilik]

#4, love the racing

[@giggio1747]

My vote goes for #1 ! We need more of that

[@foldupgames]

I like #2 this week. You are quickly becoming the official Godot news KZbinr. Keep it going!

[@DVRKHORSE]

Nice toon shading on number 4

[@mz_eth]

slay the spire 2 looks so good, happy they're part of the godot family

[@stayathomedev]

Hey! Your game looks great

[@LudiminalGames]

So hyped for Slay the Spire 2! My vote goes to #5

[@WeaselOnaStick]

I'll have to vote for Dragon Gate. It reminds me so much of "Mashed: Drive to Survive" in the best way possible. It was a charmingly simple racing/combat game I grew up with that I loved

[@cameronmoore136]

I vote for #5, Hacky. The outskirts demo looked beautiful, though. And Dragon Gate (#4) looked intriguing!

[@ogfalquinho]

gotta go with hangar 8 man, the vibe really got me

[@brabes76]

❤ the new format keep it up.

[@DrBlockBooksForKids]

The Outskirts demo is beautiful, but I think my favorite game is #3, with #4 a close second.

[@bertram7538]

#4 !! (Shoutout to #1 for the tech behind it)

[@only-anime8241]

i vote for second game. its concept seems unique

[@lexmelotti]

Going with #4 Dragon Gate!

[@hypegamer347]

#1 Vote I don't often vote based on graphics but I do make an exception here. Godot is usually associated with 2D graphics and simple visuals but number 1 game makes a strong impression towards 3D visuals and I hope to see more games pushing it like that.

[@steweeez]

I used Godot for 4 months and I don’t know a single things about coding.. Right now I’m learning Pico-8 just so I can learn stuff by making my own things, even if they are little! I noticed that my first codes were junk! They took lots of resources and lots of line… I needed to simplify and make better codes in general. Godot is more than fast and capable to create BIG stuff.. in the right hands and the right knowledge.

[@ShannAndreiHonrade]

I vote #5 it has a pretty cool concept and style. And I love the new format btw, much more informative.

[@mattjvr6189]

Number 2, I love a fun coop game with a twist.

[@jammjumble9928]

#2 looks so cool! All the games look awesome really, wish listed a few.

[@AfterlifeGames]

I am shocked and appalled that Pingbert's Snow Ride didn't win last week.

[@BastiaanOlij]

Tricky tricky, obviously outskirts looks amazing, but the other entries are really cool too. But yeah, #1

[@Break.]

great games this week! I'll go with #2

[@Danim_2205]

My vote goes for #2, Our Journey, I'll keep an eye on it

[@AB-ur8lj]

i try i try man to keep up

[@Blackmamba136]

#5 I love The new Format of your videos

[@danielrose1998]

my vote goes to #5, interesting concept and great execution!

[@DIYGamer1981able]

Dragon Gate looks nice.

[@RuneSeven]

#5 looks so clean, gets my vote.

[@CookinBeatloaf]

Is godot appropriate for music based games like a lofi rockband?

[@kitkatwitch]

Wow, these are all really cool! Personally I vote for #2.

[@LoungeCheese]

I like them but I will pick #5 - It seems to be a good looking, well executed idea

[@ADITYA3GAME]

dragon gate has my vote for this week.

[@mr.condekua6141]

our journey was already included in the godot reel (you made?) so i feel little be off that it can appear yet again

[@burastar]

Congrats to Fountain for winning last week!! Can't wait to play it, along with the others in this week's showcase! As for my vote, I will go with #4!

[@maze._]

Hi. I like the new format. However, can you please include all relevant links in the description? Slay the Spire 2 gameplay trailer, the game developer article, godot priorities page, basically everything where you look at/show screenshots from something. You do this for the five games made in Godot and I really appreciate that.

[@stayathomedev]

Of course!

[@maze._]

@ thank you so much!

[@nestorpiedraquesada2954]

This week's vote is for #3 with a little bit of jealousy because I've been trying to get done a 1st person Sci-fi project from a long time

[@AnEvilPenguin]

#5 looks awesome!

[@Charely1925]

Four 3D games in godot!? You spoil us!

[@Hyruleearth]

Hey dude. I just wanted to provide my personal feed back about the new format. I’m not enjoying it as much because it feels slower and I preferred the focus being more on the games. My suggestion is start with the top 5 games and then go into the rest. I understand that I’m only one opinion though and appreciate the effort you put in either way. Have a good one.

[@TechCowboy]

#5 has my vote, however, we really need some tutorials as to how to make an world like in #1 in VR, including UIs.

[@vieleanimations]

5:50 I wrote an importer plugin for that since I didn't know you could extract the mesh in that way...

[@GreatCollapsingHrung]

Hard to choose one as they all look good, but I've got to go with 3

[@Hexnutwarrior]

@ dragon gate people: I like your background music! :)

[@JasonTRogers]

Im ready to publish my game but I want to play it on a retro game console. It’s a 2d side scroller. Like mario. What do I do?

[@santiagovelezsaffon]

Very nice! I wonder if the showcase environmental demo is available to use

[@stayathomedev]

To edit, I don't think so. But you can try it on itch.io

[@lightraz1]

This week had great games, specially #1. Even being hard to choose among them, my vote goes to #4.

[@MarcoMartin]

#4 always love a good arcade racer

[@NeonfireStudio]

I liked your previous thumbnial ideas.

[@Digitalman42]

#5 is my fav this week.

[@challe535]

#2 - We need more coop games

[@felipowsky]

Number 1! Let’s show Godot’s graphics potential

[@ericghaugenful]

I'll vote for #4 Dragon Gate as the gameplay looks super fun 😀

[@igorthelight]

Slay The Spire 1 was made in Java + LibGDX You could see it for yourself - just look at file structure ;-) Slay The Spire 2 was initialy prototyped in Unity and then switched to Godot.

[@domeen0gt895]

So uh, #1 is like Journey #2 is like Make Way without the track building and #5 is like Casey Joint I guess I'll go with #5 since I wanna see more Casey.

[@KOELOVESGAMES]

#5 is my pick, never seen such a game before

[@draadhaai]

They all look nice but I'll go for #5 today.

[@connorcoker5112]

Number 3 looks really interesting

[@joshmelafferty]

As a forever sci-fi / space fan I gotta go with Hangar 8!

[@jefreestyles]

#5 hacky. Reminds me of Shadowrun deckers.

[@vast634]

I have never used CSG. Either I use some simple meshes like cubes or spheres for prototyping, or make a proper model in Blender.

[@jeyizumi]

number 3 has my vote

[@EduardKaresli]

Whoever wants to develop a game independently now has no excuse. There is a lot of free open source and really capable engines out there. UPBGE, O3DE, Godot (or its fork, Redot), the Wicked Engine, Fyrox, Bevy, Defold, Stride. Just pick one and stick to it until you deliver. ☝🧐🤷

[@Fhalei]

My vote is for #5, though it was a tough choice this week

[@rodrigobogado653]

el 3 por lo de terror psicologico y el 5 por el contenido que propone!

[@dee_sgusting]

as much as i love the first one for its graphics hacky(#5) just looks like a genuinely fun game so imma vote for that ^^

[@poisonivy2677]

Gotta be #5. It looks like something I'd actually buy.

[@makonow64]

voting #1 I'm interested in the future of the project

[@Gatrehs]

Yeah that's gunna be #2 for me!

[@xrisfractal]

All were amazing, but I have to vote for #5 Hacky.

[@supapaw]

Not a day goes by when I don't regret spending 2 years learning unity. I should've picked Godot from day one.

[@OrdinaryFPS]

ive heard good things about this engine, so i might switch over

[@ChePhan]

#1 with #4 being a close second