Yes absolutely agree! The community is honestly one of the most healthy and personal gaming related groups I have ever been a part of.

I am proudly a part of this community for years and all I can say is just to confirm all of this. The team behind Defold is worth highlighting - they are literally all the time online and talk with literally everybody, while still developing features and doing a ton of other stuff to make Defold a reality 🧡💙

Ngl the Godot Discord is sometimes a bit iffy. Not saying that it is bad or anything though. Somewhat feels a bit aggressive at times with people's programming beliefs and such.

@@HonsHon Godot Discord is what single-handedly convinced me to never use Godot again.

Agreed. Sometimes less is more. You can take an RV out for a great vacation, but RV's are not ideal for running to the local store just to get milk and eggs.

I've never used godot on Switch, but I think this is also the case for godot?

Not free because we'll have to pay maximum $250 for Switch porting tools, but definitely much cheaper than the $3,000 console porting service in Godot

@@0x4114 No.

Can you create like a undertale with defold?

Okay

@@idehenebenezerthat’s important

@@idehenebenezer Not okay

@@DarkOmegaMK2 I said okay because I was lacking of words to reply him so that I will get notified when others reply and catch up with the conversation

​@@idehenebenezergreat you come back with more words 😁 jk ❤ this also one my most favorite advantages about Defold

Looks like Godot 4.3 fixed the Web export ;-)

@@igorthelight Indeed. I have also been keeping track of the patch notes and testing the RC builds. It only took two years but we finally got there! ☺

@@sleepingcolossus The problem was that Godot 4.0-4.2 had a multithreaded web "engine" while almost none of the browsers supported that. Still, two years to fix - that's two long...

Glad to help. If you like alternate game engine coverage, you've come to the exact right place! ;). Plus, thank you for the support.

@@gamefromscratch Hi, make also similar videos with Flax and Stride for Unity devs, because they have potential and C#.

Just curious, why is that fast? It's Lua that fast or is this game engine really optimised?

​@@Equisdeificationposiblemente por luajit

​@@Equisdeification it's the game engines performance

Same Lua just feels very intuitive for me, I've enjoyed messing around in engines like LOVE2D and PICO-8 which both use Lua.

They should. Not only game engines, but some games themselves use Lua for their scripting.

@@brodriguez11000 Yeah. Started learning Lua recently. Most Nintendo games in Bezel Engine are also scripted using Lua.

I will neither confirm nor deny, that I am highly considering a Flax video in this series...........

Flax can only accept one FBX for one animation, which could make the final Flax game size bigger than Unity and Godot games. In Unity and Godot, we can use one FBX for multiple animations

Small communities can be like that. Growing bigger (#hint# #hint#) is where problems start.

Yay!

Great! I use it on Ubuntu and Windows 10 on a crap laptop, so it's great that it works seamlessly in other platforms too 😁

Sorry that it took so long to release Defold with M1 support! It is a whole new experience running the Defold editor natively on M1!

Glad to have you aboard, non-programmer and all! Plus you should try coding it can be great fun... and incredibly infuriating ;)

We need this. The Kings, Rovios, and Zyngas of the world should fund something like a "Defold foundation" that supports and improves this engine. The reason all three had been using Unity for recent projects is that there really isn't a lot of competitive edge in owning your own engine when you are making hypercasual mobile games (hence they were happily paying Unity), but with recent events (debacle), funding an open engine would let them just focus on making games without fearing rug pulls.

​@@edincanadawell King is the number 1 sponsor of defold

Yeah, I've used some Clojure myself some time ago, it's nice and pretty damn fast

I am so sad Stride's editor is not cross platform :(

@@comediehero Well, Unity editor technically is not too, so a 'Stride for Unity devs' video would still be appropriate

Stride is an amazing game engine, but there are three things that made me go out of it: * The editor uses windows-like renderized UI, and some IMGUI approach like Unity used for their engine provides way better responsivity and modding power for an engine (plus it is not much intuitive for someone who used Unity or even Godot for example, and Godot is not necessarily the best either) * The scene view is kinda bad and slow, it lacks the "responsiveness" of Unity scene view and is kinda strange to use, and lastly * It does not feel much polished. Yes, this is more "personal" but still these are my takes on it, I think solving the second would make the engine much more pleasant to use (and enhancing some things about the play mode), but the first is also something that is extremely important, the windowish feel to the UI responses, layout and appearance is really uncomfortable to me Another thing that is very important is a default 2D template, I think most indie devs like to make 2D games and for prototyping some fast ideas they are the best, and it is not intuitive at all to make a 2D game in Stride which to me is not much palatable. But still, I think the engine has much potential and I hope that they make it evolve more in the future.

@@diadetediotedio6918 All very valid and I agree. But I am mostly interested because of how performant it is for 3D. If it gets even a little love Godot is getting it could be something really special. More people should know about it!

He has many videos on Godot. Also, if you already know C# it isn't very difficult to pick up a simple language like Lua or GDScript, so that is essentially a non-factor when considering switching engines.

@@TheOnlyGhxst Yeah, I removed it, thanks, I did not saw the Godot one for some reason, but the others are still valid (even that he has videos on them, this is a good moment for making newer videos). And for your last statement, this is simply not how things work in real life. True, it is easy to learn another language when you master some other language, but it is not trivial for someone who is only used to C# and have no deep knowledge to pick another language and get out of their comfort domain, this is a brutal factor (and I'm talking as someone which in the past, for years, only used mostly C# and game engines with C# because of this). Stride for example has a proximity to Unity in the workflow (which is another factor).

And for Flax too!

@@diadetediotedio6918 I can say as someone who has only dabbled with coding inconsistently over the years, learning a bit of one language or another then dropping it after a few weeks and having to relearn it later, GDscript is so easy to pick up that even if you have no programming or game development experience whatsoever, you can begin making things with it and understand the language within a weekend.

Stride doesn't have any console deployment feature. Whereas MonoGame is just a framework, not a complete game engine, so it has no editor and no built in things like physics engines, etc

Did you read the license? You CAN edit source code of the engine freely and release the game with this modified version for free. You don't even need to share publicly any changes you made to the engine code in your game. What you CAN'T do is copy it's source code and SELL it. This must have been added to license in order to abeid Swedish law by the Foundation, where they can't ever change its objectives. And they have objective to make Defold free to use always. That's why, as opposite to some other companies, Defold will always be free. And yes, OSI definition of open source is when code is permissive - which mean you can copy it and sell it, so that's why they discouraged Defold to use this term.

@@pawejarosz7329 Sorry. I have corrected the comment.

​@@anselmschuelerno worries, it's frequently misunderstood and I know it's confusing, so I was rushing with an explanation as always knowing how it really is 😅

I am wondering the same, but I know the answer is money. You can always make money on making console ports as a third party, many of Godot creators have their companies doing it, so it's kind of the way to ensure devs will always use their paid help on this.

Defold is predestined for it! Take a look at their page, there is a comparison. The file size is significantly smaller than that of other engines.

Yep, it was its original purpose as well when it was Kings in house engine.

With Defold? No problem 😁 There is rarely any need to modify anything when upgrading to a new version, breaking changes are rarely introduced and most of the time backward compatibility is maintained.

Good question, good answer. Thanks.

I have a few more in mind and Flax more or may not be on that list, we will all just have to take it in strides and see how it plays out. ;)

​@@gamefromscratchyou just said Stride 😊

Try all of them, see what u like and when you do find what you like use it. I don't want to tell you what to use because everyone has a different preference

@@Ferer414 thanks man

Perhaps. But the size of the engine would have exploded. Lua was chosen because of its great performance, simple C/C++ interop and its very very small runtime size.

They've gone too radio silent for too long IMHO

CryEngine is still being used by Entropia Universe MMO - but the company is switching to Unreal this year. :D

Just play this video in reverse.

Defold uses Lua which has no static types. If you want to, you can write your code in C++ in Native Extension or use community support for Haxe or Typescript 😊 Editor can use Lua code server (there is one official) to show you hints ans intellisence for it, but you need to enable it on your own. I think this should be enabled by default. Other than this, I don't see any more UX flaws and I am using it for years 😁

Why?

@@bjornritzl Good question, I have absolutely nothing against Lua and I think it's a good and simple programming language. Just that I know most game devs want to just make a game (because duh?), but I kinda got into game dev not just because of wanting to make games but also because I wanna be better at coding. So langs like C++, C#, Python etc. are better options for me because they're just more widely used and good skills to have. So I've begun using PyGame and MonoGame as they use Python and C#. They may not be the best engines/frameworks but the language skills I'll learn from that will be useful for me personally. I don't think this should deter eager game devs from using Lua though! It's pretty useful in the game dev sphere as a surprising number of engines use it.

Gona have to try defold i like it

COVID :(

I think he said he had a bad cold a few videos back. Or was it COVID?

Lmfao!

Its an industry forged, stable language...

believe it or not there are some good engines with lua. Pico 8, tic80, love2d, defold. The list goes on. Again, modding tools use lua. I do understand if you dislike the language

Wow!!! Roblox created Lua?!?!?

@@deluxe_1337 No. A team at a Brazilian university did in 1993.

The project has literally nothing to do with King now.

Defold's licence explicitly disallows any kind of commercialisation of the engine (which is also why it can't be considered FOSS-compatible, but afaik it's the only art that makes it so) to avoid anything happening to it in the future. King is right now just one of about 25 sponsors or something? Meanwhile, the Defold developer team is really doing a great job - not only improving the engine in an organised manner, making their own plugins to add functionality outside of the core, but also actively answering questions on the forums to help new people. I vet your sentiment regarding King, I too found it ridiculous, especially the "saga" trademark thing, but I do feel that the developers deserve respect for their work.

Defold was at the beginning made by two persons, then acquired by King and then moved to it's own Foundation. King has nothing to do with Defold now and because Defold Foundation is in Sweden they ate bound to Swedish law to not change its objectives - one of them is to ensure Defold is free to use always.

Every tech company has its quirks but as long as projects become open source than all is fine, LLVM for example was created first by Apple and many contributors from the likes of Google, Intel, AMD, ARM etc. All of those companies are not in our interests and work to gain more money and control for themselves but the tool created and the fact that it is shared and open source invalidates criticising the said project, They just pay some clever engineers to do the job, It is the engineers skills that made the project into what it is, The company just has the money. You should differentiate between companies and open source projects that were payed by to be developed by companies.

@@astroid-ws4py Blender.

Yes

@@gamefromscratchoh damn that was a quick answer hahaha

After Defold, Cocos Creator is probably the next best engine for web and mobile games. Under the hood it uses C++ for native platform exports and js/ts for web and minigame platforms. They also have switch support.