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I had a tear in my eye when I saw the thumbnail and smiled at the joke where he made the breaking ice joke and the blender joke.

Brackeys is going to do for Godot exactly what he did for Unity and its community. Its gonna be awesome.

Somehow I knew this video would be 70% defending Unity and 30% pretending to welcome Brackeys back

12:50 I kinda feel like you have a misconception over the level of risk to using FOSS in a corporate environment. I think the big thing you're missing is that "community contributions" are not just individuals in these open source projects; there's companies, like your studio, who make the changes they need and contribute their changes as well. One of the biggest contributors to Linux, for instance, is Microsoft. People like you who have deadlines and aren't experts on the projects contribute to open source ALL THE TIME. I know bc I've been there. I worked for a company which used Yocto Linux RT, and we would find a security bug or add some documentation and forward that back, and we didn't miss deadlines for that. I think it's inaccurate to view your studio as an exception to making this possible when so many other companies are able to make it work. Now Godot specifically may not be mature enough still for use yet, but at some point when it's on par with something like Unity, talk about waiting on a feature. With Unity, you CAN'T get that feature. Gotta wait for them. With Godot, you just need one semi-knowledgeable team member and you can add it to the engine AND pass it on to the community. FOSS is built for making the corporate world easier, not harder :)

I like how all Brackeys did was post a video and thomas can't help but turn it into an opportunity to talk about how much money his youtube channel makes

Imagine messing up your pricing model so bad, that users flee to FOSS and revives back Brackeys (the most successful game dev education channel) from the dead 🤣

Barely a reaction to the ice-breaker joke? Dang man that's cold. I'll see myself out.

Brackeys got me started. He's good at teaching. He did it for FREE and that makes him legend to me. Godot is awesome. No crashing, Blender controls (g grab, r rotate, s scale,etc) and my favorite thing? If you click something in your hierarchy and drag it into the code editor, it auto-fills the path to that object! WELCOME BACK!

One more thing Brackeys does really well and that is less so on this channel I would say: Brackeys is not trying to sell expensive courses all the time, he doesn't sound like he is in it only for the money. I would say it sounds like a huge difference between the way we approach things and businesses in Europe compared to the US. The US way of doing things inspired the rest of the world and now we are drowning in sponsors, ads, both at the same time, people who can't help but always be selling stuff and making big claims all the time. The main reason I stopped watching 99% of your content is because it's just tiring to always have the impression that an ad is around the corner. And it's sad because I really like your style and your energy, but it's often way too businessy for my taste.

The fear in your voice is unseen, just chill the legend is back

As much as I have enjoyed Thomas's content in the past, this video especially just kind of annoyed me and emphasized the problems I have with the channel. Unfortunately, he's just really full of himself and after the money. There's some great content on here, but I don't watch 90% of it because of the attitude and the marketing. It was very interesting to see how competitive he felt in this video while claiming that he was happy to see Brackeys return, yet the only comments he made that felt genuine were the ones criticizing Brackeys.

You mention courage a lot of times, and everytime you do, you tie it to money. But there it is, it's not about courage mate, at all😆 For him, it was NEVER about the money. And despite your love for games, all your decisions are around making money and be financially wise, and I don't say this in a negative way (AT ALL). You want to achieve success and provide for you wife and kids, 100% fair play on you Thomas. I'm just saying that everyone has different motivaitons and Brackeys is clearly just the kind of guy that was never moved by money, and likely never will, but rather be moved 100% on passion (and is fortune enough that is passion provides more than enough income of course). So I think he's very pure on that regard, and I have no doubts that you would agree. I mean when he was just THE "go-to unity guy", he could have made a huge Unity paid course back then, price it at $500 and would likely be a millionaire by now. But he's just not that guy and he doesn't give a f*** about that I guess.

The Return of The King

14:18 why are you being such a sourpuss😆

8:42 Dare I say... Waiting for Godot...

Having both tried Unreal and Unity, I never went back after trying Godot. Don't get me wrong I hate tribalism, I really don't dislike the other two (although Unity really shot themselves in the foot last year...). All great engines for different reasons. Godot still needs to mature in some areas (normal since its the younger of the 3 engines), but it's such a joy to use. As of 4.0, I think it's pretty clear it will become the Blender of game engines in the near future.

Am I the only one that feels Thomas doesnt like Brackeys? His remarks are a bit personal sometimes and he doesnt seem honesly happy about Brackey's return

Dani's comment was crazy to see in addition

"Key word _simply_ download and change it. People like me, I 'm not smart enough to download and tweak open source software." Homie you made Pinstripe by yourself and you are running a game studio and selling courses. You are absolutely smart enough to type "git clone" and "git push" into a terminal. You simply _strategically chose_ to spec other stats than programming such as art, video creation, and business, which obviously worked out quite well. However, when you sell yourself short, you sell the people who look up to you short. I'm just saying don't paint the picture for game devs that look up to you that programming is some impossible thing.

Of course, Brackeys was my first Unity guru; welcome back!!

This will be the last Thomas Brush video I watch. I’m finally realizing he brings us no value unlike Brackeys did.

WHEN we all needed him, He returned ❤‍🔥

it's very funny to me that brackey announced a jump from Unity to Godot, following a long pause, a few weeks after I decided to try Godot following a few months of not touching Unity.

Well, it feels like Thomas Brush is afraid of loosing customers for his paid tutorials and that's why he made this reaction video.

Brackeys is backeys

I think its great hes going to do Godot now... Unity is already pretty fleshed out with tutorials... there wouldn't be much Brackeys could add to Unity other than new features... its C#, its not like the language has changed much in the past 10 + years... Godot on the other hand doesn't really have the assets and content Unity has so Brackeys would be a good addition to the ecosystem. I also completely agree with 100% open source... Blender is one of my favorite programs on PC. if we could get a Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / XD / etc Creative Suite but 100% free and open source I would be game... I know there are some alternatives, but they are always behind photoshop in feature set... Blender on the other hand has made huge leaps to compete with 3DS Max and Maya... even the painting is getting close to Zbrush..

I was talking recently with a friend about brackeys, and we agreed that godot feels like blender just before releasing its 2.8 version (the UI overhaul + a ton of other stuff) where that was the point blender truly started to be seen as a viable alternative to paid software, and godot godot is so close to achieving the same by making a product that masses can use. only one or two pushes and they'll make it.

Love to see Godot to get their come up even more. I started with Unity and got pretty deep into Unreal. But Godot changed everything for me as a poor kid I couldn't really get heavy hardware. So having an engine that I can run on anything even a phone or browser is perfect. Even now as an adult with a good job, I still love to pull out my cheaper laptop on a trip somewhere and work on a game. The more tools we have that are well developed the better they'll all be since they'll have competition to grow against.

7:57 I don't think this is a problem with open-source. You would have the same problem with any program that doesn't have the features you need. The difference is, do you wait for a company to make the changes you need, or do you wait for the community to make the changes you need. Both have pros and cons. (edit: timestamp)

My favorite part of this whole video is how in the same sentence he says that he doesn't use something but then says that he knows all about why he doesn't use it and how hard it is

"Hello Everyone" Me: THIS IS CINEMA 😭🙌🏻

It's gonna be really interesting to follow Brackeys dive into Godot! As Unity is hit with controvercy and massive layoffs, Godot has been taking off. It feels like a Maya vs Blender moment to me. I totally understand that you feel that Godot nor the tutorial community around Godot is mature enough yet for you to make a move, but in a couple years or less time I imagine Godot will pass Unity in capability.

He’s back, it’s not clear for how long. I hope for a while

It's funny how I had no idea that Brackeys left because I too left the dev space around the same time. And when I came back just a few months ago KZfaq kept insisting I check out your channel so in my mind he walked so you can run. And now he's back, and you're reacting to it. Considering his style of teaching is unprecedented in terms of details and clarity, and you cover more of the functional aspect of being an indie dev as opposed to detailed coding courses (on YT at least). I think the two of you will naturally compliment each other. All I can say is: It's a great time to be into game design

Hope you get him in here for a podcast

"I'm not a godot guy, or a unity guy" I think most people think this way. But there's always people who tend to raise their flags representing company x or y. Always happens when there are more than one big company in any field. Not healthy. Just do what makes you happy, do what you know and what excites you. My job is using Unity but I will play around with godot watching brackeys, as i did a long time ago now learning Unity haha. Also yes! Danes are incredible! Work with a lot of them too.

You’re definitely smart enough. You would just clone the repo, open it up in a code editor probably visual studio code, make a branch, make your changes and then make a pull request to potentially get those changes merged in (added to the software). I know that sounds complicated but if you can code video games doing what I said above is a piece of cake.

First just wanna say WELCOME BACK BRACKEYS!!! So excited to see future videos. As an engine hopper early on and hit many roadblocks I fell in love with Godot 4 and have not looked back and progressed in my game dev journey by a lot. I have a video idea or stream idea since Godot is always in the back of your head Thomas. Take a day or half day to remake your pewdiepie platformer in Godot and see how you like it!

great breakdown of the video. and I think consistency is a big factor for a lot of things, not just game dev. its so inspiring and motivating to see any youtube channel go from 0 subscribers to thousands or even millions years later doing what that person loves. or releasing a game that person worked on with any game engine. cheers.

We need a Brackeys for Unreal Engine. One of the things that hold the engine back is lack of good documentation / great KZfaqr(s) to teach us the engine and how to use it as solo / small team devs

Unreal may feel clunky or heavy to Unity and Godot users because it has systems in place that are already working out of the box, which is usually why people decide to use it. I believe that's also why you decided to try it; for the systems and tools that it offers. Other engines are far more customizable so they are more like empty boxes you can fill, while Unreal is already half full. And you can adjust the settings to make it feel a little lighter until you need the full power of it. But at the end of the day, typically the reason people don't like Unreal is because they are used to scripting, and switching to Blueprints is just uncomfortable. Which is valid.

I've thought about this a lot since brackies returned, but I think Im moving to godot. I haven't even considered this before, Im looking forward to the future of the engine

As a motion graphics designer-turned-game-dev, I love how at 7:45 you point out that he said "simply". Like, shout out to the community who can simply do that, but I certainly cannot 😂😂. Def on the Godot train though

Want to know more about reasons you don’t like UE

I used to learn from brackeys tutorials on unity back in the day but quickly gave up (for unspecified reasons). This time however I'm back with a fresh start and maybe commit some back to the community. Really hope for the godot community to thrive

Its not at commercial stage yet. I completely understand. Not having fleshed out mrchanics and support makes development 10x slower.

17:19 I feel like there's some kind of workflow issue with Unreal, that I can't quite put my finger on. I don't doubt it could do everything I need and so much more, I just struggle to work with it. Ironically, easier to write an OpenGL engine from scratch.

If I was you, I’d jump on the Godot bandwagon and actually do tutorials for it. The number of teachers and/or quality videos around is very scarce, so this is the best time to apply your knowledge to a much user-oriented engine and even contribute to its development, just like the other comments said. There is already a good amount of games that has been released and made pretty good money, so i wouldn’t say that its that limited. Both you and us can benefit from this, so really, think about it, after you ship your new game.

but the beauty in add value to open source software you don't have to be always a "programmer" even as a user for example for gimp u can open new issues and request if you found a error or want a new feature so than a "smarter" programmer can take this task because for example he knows how to fix this

The reason that Blender can compete with Autodesk Maya is because they have more in house developers than Autodesk have for Maya and on top of that they have community contributions and fat donations and partnerships with the biggest players in the industry Nvidia ,Adobe, Epic, Ubisoft, Meta just to name a few. Another big contributor to the development of Blender is the internal Blender studio. I don’t think you can say the same on Godot at the moment hopefully it will change.

I'm going to take his godot course & I'm super happy he's back

I know it’s against the grain to talk highly about Unity nowadays, but I think Unity’s tools are great for me as a solo dev and I’m glad you’re sharing your thoughts on this!

I'm also so excited for him to return, I learned gamedev via his channel, then had a long break of not doing anything in the realm of programming which i was upset about, with difficulties getting back in (from other things irl, laziness or the feeling of nothing accessible to get me back in etc), but I'll definetly follow his godot stuff and hopefully enjoy it as much as i have all those years ago. I was so glad seeing his video pop up

Brush literally saying he can't go FOSS because to do so, you need to be principled. We knew that about him already, but still, the admission is funny.

Brackeys himself is back from retirement to kick unity in the butt even more, cry about it.

The thing you mentioned about some people treating game engines like religions and cults is exactly why I avoided Godot for so long. I remember the creator of Godot said something similar and that kind of attitude isn't helping the community. One look through KZfaq comments or on Twitter and it looked like some sort of cult. I did however cave and try it out a couple of weeks ago and it does meet my needs very well and I'll be using it for projects in the future. An engine is a tool. People can sit around and moan about others using x-y-z or they can get their shit together and get some work done.

i am onismus from south africa ,i am so happy my role model thomas brush is learning godot since i use godot

Did Thomas just tell us that he actually wants to quite KZfaq but can't? Lol.

I loved watching brackeys even before I used unity. They did a great job getting basic concepts across, so you know why you are doing what it is you are doing. Excited for their Godot content!

I love your honesty in the video about your decision to use Unity. As a game dev at heart, I totally agree with you that the choice of software doesn't matter. Making a great game is the goal. Another key insight I learned from Brackeys is that it's okay to take a break, because you never know how impactful and significant your comeback might be!

Huge welcome to the Legend Brackeys"

When I saw that video pop up in my suggested I had to put everything down and pay ATTENTION

Almost the whole web stands on open source. Even the most uses javaScript frameworks what is used in a lot of big and small companies, not just for web but also for whole applications based on web tech (like reactjs, vuejs and angularjs) are all open source AND supported by one of the biggest companies of the world like google, facebook or microsoft

The 100% free concept trickles down to the games and assets (willingness to pay) don't you think?

16:45 that wholesome wave lmao

Great video, thanks! Hard agree man. My boss came to me asking if we could switch to godot, and where it may well get there one day, it's so far from being production ready it's not likely to be a viable option for quite some time.

he was the one who got me started on game making

Im definitely gonna be going onto godot when it gets a bit more mature

Now all we need is Dani to make a comeback then we're all good

Fellow Dane here - he should have stayed in Danish I think :D As Thomas, I'm also staying in Unity for a lone time. See no reason to switch, not even if I started on a new game tomorrow. Good to have Brackeys (Asbjørn & co.) back :)

Is your hat letters upside down and flipped or os the video flipped?

Hey man- props to you for sticking with unity. It will be a great market for your channel. And honestly- the people who have actual projects going can easily convert knowledge to their own engine.

You are right except Linux is an open source operating system 12:44 or 12:45 I guess😅

Brackeys is not completely correct when he says "in the past there were no publicly available engines and companies were using their inhouse solutions". Companies indeed were building engines from ground up but they were also selling them. Simply it wasn't widely spread because pricing model was mostly enterprise focused and was out of reach of indie devs. Also engines had narrower niche and capabilities and required specific skills to work with (higher entry point in comparison to Unity/Godot/UE). Moreover some companies aimed at creating games to showcase capabilities of their engine (widely known CryEngine and Crysis game series).

I don’t even know Brackeys, it’ll be good to tune in to him. But I’m enjoying Unity tbh, I’m just new though.

I'm Danish too, love to see it!

When the world needed him most.... he returns

Love the videos, keep up the good work!!!!

Thomas, I'm actually happy of your criticism of Unreal. I thought I was the only one that didn't like using it. Everyone in my career has told me that I have to get on-board with Unreal, but I simply just don't like it. It is clunky, as you put it. No offense to anyone that uses Unreal, but it isn't for everyone.

Omg its happening! Everyone stay calm!

welcome back brackeys

I think most reasonable people understand that not everyone can just dump Unity/Unreal and try a new engine. I'm moving on from Unity, but it's really easy for me. I'm just a hobbyist that has never even gotten close to finishing a game. I have another (non-game related) full time job with benefits that I rely on to support my family. There's no risk. Use whatever you need to use in order to make your games. In the end, the people who are buying and playing games typically don't care what engine it's made in as long as it's a good product. I'm glad Brackeys is back, I welcome any new game dev content of quality, regardless of which engine it targets. Good luck with your game Thomas, I wish you much success.

as a beginner and godot user, i want unity and unreal and other engines to get better alongside godot. i dont get why ppl are defensive sometimes about their engine of choice, it reminds me of apple vs android fanboys .. i dont care about the companies behind these engines, i care about all the developers making cool stuff and i think we should all want to see more creative and fun games no matter what theyre made with, so we should want all those tools to evolve as well

Brackey's: I'm in no position to predict the future. Thomas: Yes you are. You're in the perfect position. So why don't you tell me.

gotta love youtube grifters man

6:25 Same for me with Unreal Engine. I wanna at least finish few more game with unity even before thinking to change engine :D 17:30 you are not alone, it feels too clunky to me too, i assume i feel like that because i don't know how to use it well compare to unity

If you are unity dev, then you can learn godot in less than a day because it's easier. The only thing hard a bit about godot is its UI.

Was he really that influential? I think I may have seen one or two of his videos in the past, but I didn't realize how big he was. Million's influenced sounds like a bit of a stretch. I've never spent much time watching tutorial content, moreso game design and coding related videos. Anyway, I did watch his godot tutorial yesterday and it was definitely well produced and easy to follow. Always good to see great content being produced in this space. Also happy to see Godot being pushed more. I swore off Unity after their pricing changes and have absolutely zero reason to ever go back. Most of my gamedev is hobbyist small projects anyway. I don't typically use engines so it's not like they are losing a customer in me, but I hate people just continuing to use it when they have shown the world what they think about developers. On the other hand, I totally understand that people can't or won't switch for various reasons. Inertia is a big deal.

1:35 to 1:40 best moment

Could you flex those biceps more? We need motivation to hit the gym too!

"Brackeys Is Back" YT tutorials bout 2 be lit 🔥💯

WELCOME BACK BRACKEYS

With Unity you'll have the benefit of having an actual managed and paid team, that is continously working on the engine to improve it and compete with Unreal (which to some extent, you could consider a virtual part of your team). Unity has lots of good stuff, also lots of nonsense, but I tried Godot for a while and the primary bad smell for me was the absolutely religious community that has a very naive look to everything. With Unity, I appreciate the feeling of having elbow room with C# to do your own stuff, but also out of the box things I dont care implementing. What would make Unity killer for me was some degree opening up the engine, or at least a more flexible API that would allow for custom stuff. They're going in the right direction there with SRP

W4 games is a spin off company from the godot devs, it is to help those wanting to port to consoles, so console support is fully possible, it is not free however.

I found the recurring pattern you talked about yourself in this video. It seems your schedule is too tight. This will put you on the production line similar to factory workers. Well I think you're smart enough, but you just need some affirmations and still considering alternatives. It won't last long, at least your mental health won't last long in such schedule. My advice is to take 1 minute everyday to only focus on your own breath. Solely for your breath, nothing else. I hope this will help you to at least buy a bit more time for you to find your own solutions. I don't need anything in return other than if you noticed someone that's going through similar situation, do remind them. Well it's a human in service for humanity, so I could say "I'm doing my part".

Does unity work with .NET 8?

It's called "having a spine"

I feel save with Unity. I feel unsafe with Godot. Quality of Open Source is just less predictable.

Unity is still great. I keep looking but I can’t easily move so… unity has to be doing a great thing here