You forgot to mention the incredibly superior UI components of Godot. Probably one of (if not) the strongest aspects of it

Okay, my thoughts on Godot are simple.. *i love Godot more than I love myself*

For me, I tend to make 2d 8/16-bit style games so almost all the problems with Godot are non-existent so it is the perfect engine for me! :D

I feel like you could have elaborated more on why the node system is so good. I had a different experience from you when it came to the nodes -- I felt that the system was intuitive right away and probably the only reason I continued to use Godot. The power in the node system is that once you learn the system, you essentially know how to work with any possible object at the highest level. When I learned how to make shaders during a game jam, I only had to watch a tutorial on creating them, but as soon as it was done, I knew exactly how to interface it with other objects in my game because it behaves exactly like every other object in my game. The node system essentially makes it so that all of the learning happens up front and you immediately reap its benefits for the rest of your time using the engine.

I am new to game development, and your channel has inspired me to choose Godot as my first engine. Thank you, Goodgis + team!

my favorite thing in godot is the input manager, its so easy and quick to setup !

I have hopped between 3 game engines, Godot is 100% my favorite and I have only been using it for 5 days. I can finally fufil my gamedev dream with godot and make games. I don’t care if the games don’t succeed,I just love making games.

With Godot, you could literally DRAW your levels with pencil and paper and put it into your game. I made a tutorial talking about that and showing people that. It's like somebody thought of almost everything when they made Godot and YES, it's only going to get better because more people are discovering it, are happy with it, and there are LOTS of approaches that a person could take to making their game in Godot because it's set up that way.

The coolest thing about the AnimationPlayer is that it can animate animations from other AnimationPlayer nodes. That way you can combine multiple animations without needing to make separate animations for it. I also use them a lot to animate AnimationTree properties, to create transitions within things blend spaces. And they're great for doing vfx, by doing things like combining particles with screenshake. The second best node is definitely the Tween node, it can make everything look buttery smooth within a matter of minutes.

One of the strengths of the AnimationPlayer is, that it can animate each and every property of any node and can even call functions with arguments etc. Once you get used to the possibilities it's such a benefit. Secondly the scene system (similar to prefabs in Unity) together with the node system make it so flexible and easy to recycle or assemble features, assets or whole levels. On top, Godot is so small in size (just a few MB, compared to UE or Unity with their GB size). It is open source, there are some specialized versions of the engine from people out there with additional features. And after all there are absolutely no liabilities with respect to the projects you create. I never felt comfortable that Epic wants a cut of the revenue generated with UE games. Godot fits way better for smaller indies valueing their independence.

The first con of having little learning resources is why I started doing tutorials, I didn't want others to have the same headaches I have and I try do obscure, intermediate tutorials as there are tonnes of resources for beginners. Now godot learning resources is growing seriously fast with many decent channels I'd say its no longer a con now.

2D in godot I must say that it's quite good, but you are right in saying that the 3D lacks improvements, I could see slowdowns, every time I tried a small scene, I hope that Godot 4 improves the 3D approach a lot. But despite everything, it's my favorite engine, I especially love it for its nice language, GDScript

Godot FTW!

I had to choose between unity and godot, and i'm VERY happy i chose godot. One thing you forgot is that godot is super small and runs on even a potato PC. Thank you for your video's!

Nice! I know this is off topic, but I’ve finally switched off of scratch and am trying to learn C#! Looking forward to this video!

This was super useful! I’m currently learning C# in unity because I’ve never learnt a written code. But my plan after that is to use the Godot engine for 2D and unity for 3D based on the flaws you mentioned. I really like the sound of GD script and the node system. Something I don’t like in unity is the way I have to use visual studio rather than the code writing being built in the engine

I'm working on my own Engine... I just watch these comparisons for fun! I find them entertaining!

The node-based system + the fact that it's 100% free are probably Godot's biggest strengths.

I'm a Game Maker user, but I really am interested in Godot. I tried it sometimes, but I never made a complete game with it, not even flappy bird. You pushed me forward to try it another time, so thanks :)

I started with godot 5 months ago, and I never looked back! Love GDSCRIPT, and the animation player is amazing! I wanna dip my toes in 3d very soon

I really like Godot’s lightweight, but every now and then I think about going to unity because it is already a “stablished” engine. Even though I dislike going back and forth between unity and visual studio(pc freezes sometimes)

I recently started learning Godot after using Unity for a year and I can definitely notice some of the Pros and cons you highlighted.

Possible Unity refugee here, trying to diversify my skill portfolio a bit after recent events. How much would you say the scene has changed in the two years since you made the video?

i just started making my first game ever last week, and i’m using godot to do it! i discovered your channel shortly after, and i love it :) i haven’t even seen the video yet, but i know i’m gonna really like it!

I could even 3D experiment (with cel shading) with Master Chief metal bending against Zuka Zamamee the fire/PLASMA bender as an animation. WOULDN'T THAT BE COOL! If I become a master with this program, I could make whatever I want. Sounds like a fever dream considering I've never had experience with developing nor creating anything. But I just come up with the best ideas that need to be shared and yet, I may never be the person to pull any of them off.

For my stylised water implementation, I need a way to write to a custom depth buffer so I can create underwater fog. Also, not sure if the decal node in Godot 4 already supports animated texture but last time I checked it didn’t. I really wanna have that water magic working😎

Actually the thing abt godot i like the most, is that the code editor is in the engine. Coming from unity its really ccomfortable not having to wait 20 secs after making aa change to test it out

I love how you addressed the "experienced programmers" "yeah, that's how it's supposed to work" ... godot is the only engine that ever really got me hooked long enough that I feel I understand it a bit .. and apparently it's because of how well it does code reuse..

Godot's animation player node is basically the unidentical twin brother of Blender's keyframing system

I'm into making visual novel with Godot, and I love it so much... theoretically. ^^' On paper Godot could be an incredible engine for such projects, way above solutions like Renpy, Twine etc. Hell it could be even better than Unity + Naninovel. Because most VN developers are not coders but writers and graphic designers working alone, we need an easy to use framework, and such thing doesn't exist yet. So far best few frameworks we got are focusing on dialogs branches, and as soon as we need other functionalities like character's skills, items lists, input settings etc, we got to do it outside of the framework, and spend a lot of time and energy to figure out how. Only serious solution is Dialogic, that comes with tools to do such things, and it is a very promising solution (build by quite a bunch of kind folks, which is a good plus). But Dialogic is still quite in early development, although it can do a lot of things there are a bunch of rough edges. It's the kind of tool that pushes you to use dev's version because stable one lakes features you need, but when you can get it from dev's version you get into bugs, and there's also a huge lake of functional documentation, so you need to get in touch with devs through their Discord channel to figure out your questions, which is pretty cool has they are nice people, but make them lose their time (and yours) into going through questions that could be salved through a neat manual. It's very interesting to talk with them, but at some point you're like "OK, fine, I like you guys, I really do, talks are pretty interesting, but I should be developing my story, not fooling around Discord..." Then you end up a bit like Emilio (main dev of Dialogic) : "goal at the beginning was to make this tool so I can build games faster, but I ended up working more on the tool itself rather than my games". ^^' If I'll contribute (documentation, translation..) I'll be very glad, honestly I would, but it's not what I come for in the first place. But well, project is awesome, people are great, it's free to use, open source, all the good stuff, so it's just fair and pleasant to give time to help if possible. There's also Dialogue Designer, but although the way the interface is designed (a bit like Twine) makes it great to visualize your story tree, as soon your story is full of content it becomes a mess to locate what you want to modify. Dialogic (more like Tyranobuilder) is way better on that point. Oh, and also you got to buy Dialogue Designer, then buy Dialog System 2 so you can use Dialogue Designer into Godot, then you may want to buy GridlessDB to get a better grasp on lists... and at some point (even if it's cheap) you wonder how far this economic rabbit hole will go. Plus the support is non existent, everything looks to rely on one guy that hasn't been able to answer on his KZfaq presention this question : "looks like it hasn't been updated in some time and still has a few small bugs, do you plan to keep supporting it?" posted one year ago... and yes, it looks like there are bunch of bugs, and troubles on exports, and no answer to people complains. It looks neat but sounds like a nightmare... It is quite frustrating, because it is sure thing Godot can be a very powerful VN engine, if not the most powerful solution possible. There's no doubt about this. But right now for most creators it is more of a possible future than a reality.

Yesss the animation player node is goated, you can really animate pretty much anything, whatever node property or call methods with it.

This looks interesting, I’ll definitely make sure I watch the video as soon as it releases. I just started Godot, maybe this will help me a bit? P.S, love your content!

Game Development center helped me finally understand damage and HP like i was stuck on that for sooo long ._.

At the beggining, I wanted to choose Game Maker Studio, but he is pay, so I saw Godot, but I cannot test her because of the old OpenGL version that I had, but now, you inspired me to love and search Godot again! Also I want to make a game with the art style seem like your "Rat Roguelike"

Hey! I'm a Gamemaker dev, but I think I'm starting to get jealous about all those amazing features that Godot have, might consider to try it and maybe even switch to it when I'm done with the game I'm currently making Great video!

Thanks for the feedback. I've been using Phaser3 on my current game for the past 3+ years. Once released I'll be looking into Godot after a long rest. 😵

I dunno what it is about your videos but you're the only KZfaqr I come back to and watch old videos for inspiration.

I am so proud of myself for learning most of the stuff in html and css!

Definitely gonna use Godot once I've gotten the basics of coding down! (Still messing with Scratch at the moment haha) The node system looks really helpful, plus I wanna make games that look like they crawled out of the PS1 so most of the 3D issues don't affect me :-D

Finally someone else who knows and somewhat understands lua, from your description of gdscript being a mix of it and python, both two languages that I like. Also, AnimationPlayer is the best animator out of any engine I have tried. (being mostly scratch, very laggy and unbearable unity due to my potato pc and game maker in which it didn't really click for me)

Interesting thoughts, I really liked the video. If I may, though, I do disagree about the whole limitations thing regarding game engines. I do abide by that with other things, such as the restrictions given in game jams. However, it is really frustrating when you are looking for a tool that you just don't have, so I disagree with that idea for game engines, at the very least with larger projects. For a game jam, it is obviously good to lean into the strengths of an engine you are used to, it doesn't make much sense to try and learn Unreal if you are more proficient in Godot when you only have 48 hours or so. With larger projects, I think it is a much better idea to use whatever idea you have to determine which engine you should use, not the other way around. (For instance, the expandable nature of the Unity Engine is why I am using it for a large project that I am working on) Also, I am really intrigued by the node based system. As I fall much more on the programming side, you are right when you say that it is important to design things to be reused and recycled, and I take great care in doing that in my game systems, so hearing that Godot does it better than other engines you have used sounds really awesome, so I'm excited to check it out. I've been going back and forth with wanting to learn Godot because I don't have too much time right now, but this video makes me super excited to check it out!

I tried Godot a year ago and it was really fun programming and making stuff. I'm really exiting to return in v4.

I use GameMaker Studio 2 to make my games. After seeing this video I tried Godot. And it was really good! Even though my main Game Engine is still GameMaker Studio 2, I will also try to make games in Godot.

my main issue with other engines is that you can mess up stuff so easily and struggle to find a fix, the thing that pushed me to move from unreal to godot was when i was making something in unreal with post processing shaders they just randomly stopped working, never could find a fix, i even watched like 4 tutorials on making the exact post processing shaders i was using making sure i wasn't missing anything and never found a solution, and it wasn't just that, there were tons of random things that would mess up stuff, whether it was a random shortcut that i accidently pressed or whatever it could easily mess things up, i wish more engines went to route of godot in keeping things only as complicated as they need to be

Me vibing to the video 🤗 Me seeing dynamic typing 😱

It's such a shame other apps don't have such a flexible animation tool! Here's a tip: AnimationPlayer can call functions! I used this when I made a bullet hell shmup in a rush to animate bullet spawners position and other parameters (with visual gizmos, thanks _draw()!) and just call "shoot()" when I wanted it to shoot! I made every pattern an animation and cycled between them to fill the screen!

I personally prefer Unity, I like the challenge of C# and I find it really fun! Nodes haven’t ever felt natural or intuitive to me, and I always felt more confident with typed code than any node based system like unreal, godot or scratch

It’s really cool that you actually care about your fans and reply to their comments other people don’t want anything to do with their fans and don’t even bother to reply your really nice and awesome 👍

just stumbled over your channel and i love your videos already. the background musics fits perfectly

I really like gdnative. It allows you to script your game in whatever language you want as long as there are bindings for it

POGGERS!!!!!!!!!! a new vid!

I use Unity, and for the most part I'm happy with it. Unfortunately, it has a few problems with lack of support for 2D, and with the Animators, which you are essentially unable to access with script. It seems like it also shares quite a similar animation system with Godot, but I might be wrong.

I think I saw your video few months ago when u had 10K sub. Now 65K. Wow. Love to see your growth 🥰

After 2 months of development on my 2d game in godot. I screamed hell ya when yoy brought up Animation Player, all NPCs have the same Animations, just different sprites. On top of that you can animate values! Such as a volume fade, it's crazy

You're Doin Good you're channel has grown alot! Subbed

Nice video ;)

YES ANNOTHER VIDEOOOOOOOO

For anyone coming from unity, nodes are similar to components in unity. It basically the inverse of the way unity does it. You add components to build objects in unity. And In godot you add nodes to build objects.

I saw recently Godot getting recognized by everyone. So I am now setting in motion to work with Godot and I know Python as a programming language but for Godot, I need to learn GDscript (C# and C++ can even work). So my question is should I go with Godot? Thanks :)

I'm jumping in from javascript engines, so I highly doubt the 3D limitations or performance implications will be an issue lol (especially because I'm making a voxel game)

Great video! I come more from the retro-community and your comment is very true: limitations create more creativity. I tried Godot 4.0 today first time. Its an incredible efficient tool for 2d-game developing.

Have you ever thought of going into music engineering for games as well? Your choices for music in the video are perfect and keep attention rolling.

The duration of the video is an interesting number

I agree that limitations provoke creativity. I disagree that this is a good thing. I think it's an emergent property of a sometimes necessary evil. I can be creative without limitations where as some limitations prevent me from making my creative vision for no reason.

I would like to see more about godot performance, graphics and other technical aspects. So I decided to continue my searching about it. Thanks for the video!

I left godot, 95% of the reason is having no near enough tutorials, 5% because it always felt messy, gdscript is great, nodes are great, if tutorials do get a big jump, i'm surely coming back

Very Informative video! Well done

I'm mostly trying once again to make a game on Godot to get some practice for programming, because I sure won't be able to finish it without any help. GDscript being similar to Python is good, considering I'm mainly a Python dev...

Two things that Godot has that Unity doesn't: 1: A built-in path node, for making curves and lines for things to follow easily 2: An easy way to make 2D platfomers with a lot of control over how they play

goodgis is back.

I'm still trying to learn Godot. I'm kind of tossed up between Godot and Unreal. One good thing about Godot though, it is forcing me to learn a bit of coding.

"limitations fosters more creativity" - Amen, Brother!!

I wonder is godot good for making a retro game similar to psx or n64?

I played with Unity a few times and Godot and I really liked the way Godot felt compared to Unity, although the lack of tutorials on things was annoying.

Whats the difference between unity's Game Object system and Godot's Node system? Also what can Godot's animation tool can do that Unity's animation tool can't?

Helped alot. It's everything I ever wanted!

This is most likely the only game engine I could even consider using to any degree. Screw Blender 2.93 on my 2010 laptop with DX10.1/GL3.3 graphics. I'm usin something that's greatly attuned to 2D graphics. I wanna make Halo 32x someday, or simulate what it would be like on a Sega 32x when in actuality it's just a Linux exclusive that requires OpenGL 3.3 with RGTC texture compression to save file size and maximize performance in 240p. My NVS 2100M has 512MB of effectively 1600MHz DDR3 bandwidth but raw power is weak so I should focus optimization on memory utilization to really exploit my hardware.

I'm a novice as far as gamedev goes but I'm not a fan of gdscript's mixture of static and dynamic types. The editor has sometimes trouble figuring out what you're writing (e.g. whether a method actually exists in an object) and that lets some typing bugs slip until they break midgame. Aside from that, I'm just starting with Godot but I'm liking it a lot. I used a lot of prefabs and "prefab variants" in Unity to have hierarchies of functionality, which basically worked as a clunky node system like Godot's. So I'm quite fond of that system. Also, I have just seen a superficial view of the animator but seems to me like it's not so different from Unity's, which also lets your animate any property using keyframes and curves.

I love this music, very fun! Lol. I like your content, very high quality. Why don't you have more subscribers? I'm subbing.

the no learning resources point is a pro if you're a gamedev youtuber: there's a demand but there's no supply, so you can be the first on the market and it'll be super beneficial for you. it's how i gained most of my views xD

I want to develop a game in Godot what I’ve thinking is osu crossed with an rpg

I’m new to Godoy but I love watching videos like yours,I’m just wondering what was the series you watched that helped you make networking in Godot?

hi

c# is easy to read and it's string interpolation is awesome. like: int number = 9; print($"The number is {number}");

using godot has been a very calming experience for me. gdscript is way easier and cleaner than c++ and c# in my opinion, which really makes my experience in godot better.

godot dont have lod support, but its easy to implement and there are some add'ons that do that for you... well i never tried, but it looks easy to do or to use. one big issue with godot is not having occlusion culling (well godot 3.4 and 4.0 will have it, but at least in the beta of 3.4, you have to do some manual tweaking, its not just "click to enable oclusion culling" you have to specify oclusion areas or something like that. i hope they make an better algorithm by the time they relase the 4.0 version, on the other hand an generic algorith to try to solve any situation may not provide an performance as good as if you manually tweak it to fit your game. another thing to consider is that godot currently dont have an automatic subdivide, so you have to create an model of your assets for each LOD, i think some one is developing it, but i dont expect it to be as good as the one that unreal 5 will have, the automatic subdivide/lod from unreal called nanite may not work for every 3D model, i'm not sure if it can handle complex shapes like an human being or just stuff like rocks, but it should be much better than anything godot will have for the next couple of years. oh, and godot dont have texture streaming afaik, this is an important feature for games that you fast travel on the map, such as racing games.

What I like about Godot (as a noob): -Python based language: It's one of the easier yet complete language for me, as a non-programer that still want to add more or less custom scripts. -Open source: well, it's open source. Not gonna expend on that. -Lightweight, portable and perfect for 2D: I like to work on my laptop, it's not a workstatikn and it's definitly nothing comparable to my desktop. And I like 2D graphics, at least as a maybe future indie dev. -The nodes: Pretty intuitive and easy to use for everyday people. -Future: I started godot 1 year ago, and it's evolving rapidly. I'm sure it will keep going on like that and follow Blender's path (my second favorite software after ZBrush, yes, I like some paif stuff too !) What I don't like: -The manual is highly unspecific -Some features are very unintuitive, and I had hard time resolving a lot of jitter problems. -The nodes: I like them but I hate them, there is something very frustrating with the nide structure. It's so easy to build something and end up trapped in your creation, having to build work around to get out of your own traps or completly scrap your node and start from fresh (usually the better idea). It's not that it's harder than "real" programming. Just that the simplicity of it make it easier to come to it for unexperienced users.

I've been learning gamemaker but I don't think that it's completely right for me. I'm now gonna switch to godot and see if it works.

I started with godot 2 weeks ago and I love it.

Great video! :)

Really great video. This channel inspired me to pick up Godot.

There's one point I also keep on making for any other Open Source program like Blender, Krita or any major Linux distro - any time you are willing to invest in actually using Open Source software is time that can not be taken away from you by a large company buying your favorite program to let it die or put it behind a subscription wall or whatever. And even in the worst scenario that the program is abandoned some day - the code is still there. You *could* theoretically hire someone to fix it enough for you to use it some more. Also any support you show any open project is a benefit for every user and especially any user without the means to pay for subscription. And hell - Open Source software never comes with any stupid invasive OS blocking licensing DRM software launcher. You want a cutting edge software with the best of the best art - yure: go for unreal. Hands down. Unreal is awesome. And at least currently Epic are also still an awesome company. But if your project and workflow suits it I always make the point for at least giving any Open Source Software a try. That point alone is worth checking Godot out. Not to mention Sonic Colors was released on Godot 3.x (probably heeeavily modified by SEGA) and TESLA are using godot for some of their cars' UIs, apparently. :)

The worst thing everybody does is lack of performance optimization. I tried to download procedurally generated planet assett for Godot and ended up with 5 fps!!! So I remade it and run on mobile device with 60 fps :D So everyone who says that Godot is slow, it is his own fault. I dont like when devs rely on that engine makes all work instead of them. About tutorials - sometimes I even use Unity tutorials and code it in GD script. It works too :) You just need to understand the code, doesnt matter if its c# of GD script.

Your explanation of Godot's node system reminds me a lot of Unity's prefab (and nested prefab) system. You can create reusable components and compose them to create something totally different.

Great video. It's great to hear what people think of it.

Another banger from goodgis as always.

I frankly ADORE gdscript. Most convenient programing language for game dev I've ever used. Python and Lua are great in a lot of ways, but I feel that they were never really meant to do game development. (With the exception of Lua being great for data driven engines or modding support.) But the sheer amount of convenient features in gdscript is astounding. I especially appreciate the move_and_slide_with_snap() built in function for KinematicBody because it turns many lines of C++/C# into one fully featured platforming movement function (I don't remember if it comes with a built in boolean for coyote time... But that's not too hard to do with a basic delta timer).

GD script is a mix of python and lua Me who knows both lua and python: happy smiling noises

i personally love gdevelop

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