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Somewhere in the O3DE office you can hear an engeneer proclaim: "It works on my computer!"

"It just doesn't work!" Yeah, that seemed to be the opinion of Amazon Games Studio as well after Lumberyard was forced on them. 😢

O3DE just seems like it wants to exist but hisses at anyone who walks near it

Wow! I didn't know Godot, Bevy, Gdevelop, Stride and Defold didn't exist! Very cool

This being the first open source game engine reminds me of when Jennifer Lawrence was the first female lead on a movie. The Hunger Games walked so Alien could run. The same is true for O3DE.

I am still VERY excited about the future of O3DE. But you are absolutely right that it's currently more of a 2-steps-forward-1step-back situation with the development.

Oh, this is what happened to Lumberyard?! I must have lost track. I thought this was going to be about Oger3D. Thanks for keeping track.

The cannon event sound effect blares as a superimposed image of Godot fades in

I spent some time in Lumberyard on a large scale project about 2 years ago. It did get the job done, but was lacking in some ways and needed a lot of engineering effort to maintain and work with, moreso than I’ve come to expect with other projects that were Unreal-based. O3DE looks like it’s trying to continue where Lumberyard left off which is kinda neat. Glad to know there’s more powerful engines out there, I’d certainly give this one a shot (I just hope they make more game development focused improvements and not… robotics?)

The "only really open game engine" quote isn't on the release blog post anymore lmaooo

At least you got O3DE installed. That's farther than I got with Lumberyard.

> Adopted by the Linux community > Doesn't work by default Yeah this kind of checks out. Open source is great until they expect you to be their quality control.

Oh boy, here we go again...

Hi Mike from Gamefromscratch! Thank you for your video.

I've been waiting for this engine to finally start working because it's a very cool project and a major bummer that it just seems perpetually broken. Honestly same was true for lumberyard. I don't know why all the cry engine based projects just seem to be a bit crap but it sucks that they are.

Yeah right, I'll stick with the "not so open game engine Godot". The fact that they put Huawei as the source of their quote tells you enough about the correctness.

O3DE was CryEngine fork so it is not a cheap engine at all, it might be close to Unreal in potential, but obviously it might be harder to learn but great for big studios avoid royalties and etc. For triple A it sounds like it is the only option open source right now.

honestly, to me O3DE just looks like a game engine made by very skilled people that don't play or even like videogames

Honestly I'm still super-psyched for O3DE; but right now we seem to be getting bleeding-edge stuff from them, which is a dangerous place to do work. Given the team behind it and the sheer volume of support it's getting, not to mention the proven track record of some of the engines it's derived from, one of these days it's going to be a default for a lot of people. It just isn't yet. I mess around with it as a hobby in a few months.

I installed the from the latest installer. It's works for me. Here is what I did. I installed with defaults. Then I started the project manager and clicked through the tabs. Initially I saw three boxes on the first tab, but after I returned they were gone (suggests to me that some value changed from whatever it shipped it) *then* I created a new project, again defaults. Once it did that I clicked "build" once... as it turns out it still needed to download stuff (very odd). Once that was done I launched the project and it opened the editor. Again it worked on some things for a while (it was painfully slow) Once it was up I created a new level, saved it. Then in the new level I duplicated the shader ball object (as it was some default thing that came with it) and opened the material editor. I created a new material, made it red, saved it. Then made another blue one. Closed the editor and went back to the shader ball object. Now I changed the material to red, and the other to blue. Now.. while it worked it was still a slow and painful process. An editor shouldn't be so slow to work with so you can basically play a round of poker before it is done starting up. Then I closed the editor, and relaunched the project in the editor. This time it was fast. .. So, looking at the changes I can see they borrowed more than a little inspiration from Godot. Or I should say.. it felt very familiar. Update: It's still too buggy for my taste (after trying it) And I agree with the documentation woes.

The potential here is huge, but it does seem like there's a ways to go to get there.

Lumberyard was the first game engine I ever downloaded. I downloaded when it launched. Its interesting seeing how much its changed over the years.

2:12 major red flag right there

App developer here whose beta app is undergoing some pretty rigorous external testing. This makes me feel so much better about myself.

_O3DE. When you absolutely positively need to ignore every other engine in the room - accept no substitutes._

@2:15 "...it's the only really open game engine out there, and it's the only fully open source, royalty-free solution that exists at this time." So even the Release Notes need patching? 😙

for the history that this engine has, i wonder how much baggage it carries behind the scenes.

They actually yeeted the comment, good for them: "We have retracted a quote from this blog that stated that O3DE is the ‘only real open source game engine.’ The quote was never intended to be included and very unfortunately was taken out of context before we were able to make the correction. We deeply regret any misunderstanding, harm or inconvenience caused."

I finally decided to try out this engine and I gotta say I was happily surprised. It’s definitely not perfect, but it feels like a mix between unity and unreal, and it’s open source. The documentation sucks, but other than that it’s been going really well. Probably not godot level yet, but I think it does have a lot of potential. It’s been working great so far, I hope it keeps up like this. Edit: I take it all back. Well mostly. It ended it getting really annoying to use, and I can’t tell if I’m the problem or the engine is buggy. But the docs are horrible and I don’t know what I’m doing lol. I still think it has a lot of potential, and could end up being a better foss engine than godot, but it is not there yet sadly. I will be keeping an eye on it though for sure

You can select version of documentation in upper left corner. And you looking at the old version of documentation. Never worked with it, but read a lot of documentations

Lumberyard/O3DE is one of those projects that seems to be in perpetual development but doesn't go anywhere. You can sense there is a lot of money spent on the engine but you can't really see it in the engine. Just feels unfinished and untested. Mostly because you can't build a game engine in a vacuum. At some point you need to ship an actual game or have someone ship an actual game with the thing to see if it actually is a viable product. O3DE needs to stop what they are doing, hand the engine to a few game developers, see what the feedback is and take notes.

This ones not done yet. At least you dont have to wait for Godot.

Any open source competition is good, it allows not only freedom of choice but also innovation by each party instead of a monopoly Surprised Epic Games funded this project considering they already have a game engine. Idk how to feel for Unreal Engine, it looks cool and runs very good, but it’s source-available only, not open source, so idk if I should use it or not Hope for the best of this engine

Heard something about the linux foundation being in charge? No wonder why the documtation is wrong and the new feature doesn't work lol

For a second I was second guessing my understanding of what the definition of "Open" was... lol

O3DE has a lot of fancy support badges but does that even matter? How much resources are actually being sent by these companies that are backing it, it seems not that much.

I tried O3DE, but for some reason it capped all processor cores to 100% and just kept them there. I even gave it the chance of finish booting, but even with just an empty project after it finished loading it for some reason kept CPU at 100%. At that point I gave up on it, maybe the new version works better? Might give it a try again down the line.

6:41 You know it's bad when Gamesfromscratch says "Bloody" XD

Have u tried Hazel angine from The Cherno?

wow, you have a working copy of O3DE. This was the first engine I install after the Unity drama. And I couldn't make it work. Editor doesn't even start, no error, no log, nothing. It just doesn't work. I read about it, and looks like the engine is just... broken. No audio, some have no image. and a long etc.

O3DE seems to follow the Linux tradition of things never working out of the box, documentation being outdated, and basic or important things being buried in consoles! Jokes aside, I really hope the engine takes off eventually. It doesn't seem worth giving a shot at this moment in time, at least not for me, but I can see myself using it in a decade or two.

Or maybe it is safe for them to say that the engine is the only open source game engine TARGETTING Unreal? (Or maybe Armory / UPBGE can be taken as alternatives if Unreal is really unavailable?)

Has this engine been around for long? First time I'm hearing about it.

I really enjoy watching your videos. I'm trying to find the perfect game engine to grow into. But there are so many features and technology that needs to be considered when choosing an engine. Maybe you could do a video about the essential technology needed to build game engines in the order of importance. Eg platform support, programming languages based on industry preference, animation support like ik, VR support and so on.

Seems they should rename the engine to the The Only Really Annoying Engine

It was about time that someone would invent the first fully open source, royalty-free game engine.

Hilariously, they already removed the quote from the article. That is so funny.

First rule of O3DE: You don't talk about Godot. As someone who is actually into robotics development, I am exited to see something like this replacing Gazebo. However, Godot Also has ROS2 integration, but that breaks rule 1 of O3DE.

I forgot *O3DE* exists

In context, he's right. O3DE is the only open source, AAA capable engine. There are no others. O3DE doesn't target hobbyists.

Looks like they removed the quote.

About things not working... It's just that, whenever they say that "a new thing has been implemented" you should read "a new thing has just started being worked on".

I've build from sources 23.05 and prefab system is enabled by default. Installed windows binary - it is there are you sure you use a proper tag when cloning?

I suppose they were talking about the licenses but ... O3DE is using Apache 2 and Godot is using an MIT with both allowing to do anything...

It appears that you were looking at the documentation for 23.05 instead of 23.10. Documentation version selector was at the top right and in your video shows 23.05. Still the functionality was not working as per their documentation though.

>engineer at huawei >demonstrably false statement Imagine my surprise… 🤨 Thank goodness I was already sitting down to watch this video!

its possible to use c++ or is only supported lua scripting? you spoke to quickly, sry sry.

O3DE has so much potential, the docs say lua scripting is for "quick iteration of your game logic" and "canvas scripting is a general purpose, scripting environment". The question, is it suppose to be a visual scripting only engine like Snowdrop engine? Also why use canvas script for production ready game logic, when Torch library was built in lua scripting language which is part of PyTorch, frustrating. Still glade that the open source team is getting a lot of the kinks out atleast

It seems like the engine is still in alpha status, but the version numbers appear as though it is stable for a while. And it's kind of making people feel sorry that software under the name of Linux Foundation is only supported on one certain Linux distribution. And I cannot even install / launch the software normally on said distribution.

it's even funnier when you go to the blog post now and see that this quote has been removed

"they cou- they go dot wrong" lmao

I tried the 23.05 version, and it was the same, it doesn't work, for some reason i can't rename any assets, i tried to make a script using Script Canvas and when i deleted 2 nodes, the whole engine crashed, there was a error pop up, but i couldn't read it because the pop up window was complety white with no text.

While it looks interesting, im super sus about so much corporate support...

Not sure why this engine does not get more love. Maybe they need to also invest in more tutorials.

I'm still waiting for them to add C# support so it can truly be a Unity replacement. But I worry if that will ever become a thing since on every thread I find (github or otherwise) on the subject there's a bunch of people doing the proverbial "ew c# so slow, never", regardless of benchmarks or proof to the contrary.

coming from "farcry sandbox mapping" (basically cry-engine mapping ) far back in the day, I try this steaming pile of **** like twice a year, so far I never got it to work. It sometimes crashes, but mostly just throws all kinds of errors and begs to be killed off immediately. See you next year again, O3DE

I really want to see cryengine get more popular

Wait, this is based on Lumberyard? So it's an open source version of Star Citizen's game engine? That potentially puts some SERIOUS power into the hands of indie devs. Shame it's a buggy mess, though. But since it's open-source, maybe that'll be fixed in time. I might try picking this up just to play around with it.

I have to wonder why they say its the "only really open source engine", I mean its great to have more options, and this being owned by the Linux foundation gives me great hope in its future but they must have had some reason to say this. Does Godot need some proprietary binary blobs to work on Apple or Windows that I am not aware of?

Them talking about robotics shouldn't be a bad thing per say for game developers since it means there's decent focus on automation logic. Which your in-game units would also utilize. And other more physical world oriented robotics features such as image/vision recognition could be handy for AR games too. But that is not so say that robotics focus would make game developers happy necessarily, just that it shouldn't make game developers sad, if that makes sense.

They've already removed that quote from the bottom of the article. Guess they got enough blowback for that one.

so it's just Cryengine 3 from 2013. The real cryengine is on version 6 or something.

I wonder if modular game engines should be more of a thing. Game Engines are basically a collection of tools to make games, why not make those tools interchangeable? I'm guessing there could be compatibility issues.

Everyone's pal the Senior Engineer at Huawei also likes to say "We are the only manufacturer of smartphones"

editor layout looks identical to UE

To be honest, that quote was by someone at Huawei so while wildly inaccurate for most of the world, I'm unsure about what's accessible to them.

Not only GoDot, but also UpBGE and, possibly, Ogre

The animation system in this engine is more interesting than in Godot

Yes. It is glitchy and disfunctional. It's develoment doesn't go smoothly. And their marketing and PR staff is definitely the worst part of the team. But still - it looks very promising. The problem is - someone somewhere can develop some better engine, before this engine will bocome fully functional. There's a lots of free and open-source engines out there, and their developers continue to improve their creations - so O3DE could "miss it's ride".

"I know this came off as negative." Id rather you be brutally honest. Inatead of trying to serve me some soft serve bullshit. Thsnks as always

average open source projects be like...

I couldn't even get the online install to work. I can't even think of a time I've had an installer fail on my machine, but this one does. I even tried to have it create a local installer and I got the same results. Huge turn off when you can even install the darn thing. This was for their 23.10.0 Windows install.

Hey man! Just take a break, relax and have some 🍵

My kind friend Krita 5.2 released

less confused now...but still confused

Well, he Works at Huawei, of course he is going to lie

But it can be so powerful game engine IMO! it has lots of powerful features and tools!

But does it work?

The quote was removed

He works for Huawei, cut him some slack behind the great firewall...

The problem with engines like this is their lack of documentation and popular support. Unreal has only in the past few years been mature and had plenty of tutorials available, so it would take years for O3DE to reach the same kind of state IF people pick it up now.

I can't use cryengine. I'm on Mac.

Hopefully they'll take this exposure in a good way and work on stuff rather than trying to proclaim they are something they are not.

Imagine if Godot developers kudt borrow some codes from O3DE Engine and use it to improve the 3D aspect of Godot since it claims to be open source.

It's like minecraft saying it's "The Only Really Block Game"

it still smells like a CryEngine

Please compare this to Godot. Looks to me like Godot is more mature at the moment.

How they see VFX integration. Potential engine's users must go and buy Popcorn FX? Then if we got tricky parts of engine which works on youtube, it cost, not planning to integrate in future like built-in version. But engine must have things like this at start, and we must just go and buy it? Do we need unjustified risk to future projects which can be multiplied by zero? - Doubt Besides count of git commits and commiters incredibly reduced recently. Seems like project potentially dying. Then: UE, Godot(e.g.) are out hope.

Hey, at least you were able to get the damn engine installed. O3DE's linux version ONLY installs with a deb package. So I guess people using distros using RPM (like me) can get screwed, huh... It genuinely baffles me that the engine only supports 1 type of Linux distro. I don't understand why they did it.