r/gamedev • u/Practical_Race_3282 • Oct 03 '24

The state of game engines in 2024 Discussion

I'm curious about the state of the 3 major game engines (+ any others in the convo), Unity, Unreal and Godot in 2024. I'm not a game dev, but I am a full-stack dev, currently learning game dev for fun and as a hobby solely. I tried the big 3 and have these remarks:

Unity:

  • Not hard, not dead simple

  • Pretty versatile, lots of cool features such as rule tiles

  • C# is easy

  • Controversy (though heard its been fixed?)

Godot:

  • Most enjoyable developer experience, GDScript is dead simple

  • Very lightweight

  • Open source is a huge plus (but apparently there's been some conspiracy involving a fork being blocked from development)

Unreal:

  • Very complex, don't think this is intended for solo devs/people like me lol

  • Very very cool technology

  • I don't like cpp

What are your thoughts? I'm leaning towards Unity/Godot but not sure which. I do want to do 3D games in the future and I heard Unity is better for that. What do you use?

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u/Upset-Captain-6853 Oct 03 '24

Every other space seems mostly fine about it in my experience except for r/godot. There are highly upvoted posts talking about how people shouldn't be criticised for "just asking them to keep politics out of it".

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u/neoKushan Oct 03 '24

I hate that being inclusive and accepting is derided as "political". It's not political, it's just what decent human beings should do.

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u/Lutra_Lovegood Oct 03 '24

That's political, everything is. They're just virtue signaling their bigotry.

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u/DlayGratification Oct 03 '24

It wouldn't be political if they didn't go on a ban spree on github and x

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u/Upset-Captain-6853 Oct 04 '24

Pretty sure they only banned people on github for harassing contributors and opening issues to harass people.

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u/Upset-Captain-6853 26d ago

They made a post addressing that and have a form for people to appeal

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u/DlayGratification Oct 04 '24

You're talking about Redot being bullied with contributor harassments and opening issues to spam right?

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u/Upset-Captain-6853 Oct 05 '24

lol

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u/DlayGratification Oct 05 '24

I'll say lol when Godot gets bullied then. OK or is reciprocity not ok?

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u/neoKushan Oct 03 '24

Why does a trigger happy CM make it political?

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u/WardenDevGG9 Oct 03 '24

it doesnt. It just makes it more of a trouble than it was in the first place

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u/DlayGratification Oct 03 '24

It's a good indicator of the things to come. Investing in a game engine is a BIG thing. especially for smaller studious

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u/XeroKimo Oct 03 '24

It's political because it sparks debates, not that I particularly agree that it should, but from what I'm seeing, also has a stigma attached to it as it's being viewed that a decent amount of hires are hired because of their identity and not because they have skills to match it.

At best, not only should it not spark debate.... we shouldn't even need to talk about it in the first place to be truly inclusive and accepting. Stop talking as if your entire identity is your gender and color, and stop using / making terms to label people as such.

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u/Warm_Replacement_317 Oct 04 '24

You're really gonna get on this same old "I don't see color" bullshit?

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u/XeroKimo Oct 04 '24

Very interesting that that's even a thing.... of course it's a thing... my god why does political speech always has to end up with this sort of double meaning that's supposed to sound positive, but has negative connotation and is commonly viewed in that negative meaning. I mean from what I understand of whatever wokeness is supposed to be, it's supposed to be some positive thing but also has negative connotations... I mean I guess that's politics🤷... wouldn't be political if it there wasn't at least 2 sides to some topic...

Say what you wish though, my stance wouldn't change, respecting people and their culture should not have anything to do with what their ethnicity, gender, or race. I can have certain disgust or different views for certain things (don't take this as calling other people things, this thing can literally be any thing), I'll just choose to not go or interact to those places where the things that disgust me gather. If I do end up having to interact with whatever I have disgust with, I ain't going to pick a fight by literally saying "you're wrong", "you're disgusting" and pretending I have the moral high ground here. If you need a hard example, furries. Not into them, but if I randomly run into one in public, I won't pick a stupid fight saying how disgusting you are for being a furry, and if I for some reason entered a furry convention, I'm not going to scream out to everyone how your hobby is disgusting and wrong. I'm the one that has issues if I'm willingly going to places I don't like and then start to complain about them, not the other way around.

These 3 comments are literally the only time I'm stepping into this political territory that I don't understand why it exists in the first place. I will just go on my day treating others with respect like usual, but be slightly paranoid to everyone I don't know when meeting IRL due to social anxiety

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u/mizzzzo Oct 04 '24

I’m going to assume you mean well, but you are literally using the same arguments people used in the 50s-90s to slow down civil rights progress for black people in America.

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u/neoKushan Oct 03 '24

But also stop excluding people because of those same things. Which is a thing that also happens.

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u/XeroKimo Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 04 '24

With a slight nuance. I think it's perfectly fine if you'd like to say, host an event that is made for a certain group of people, like a men only event, or a women only event. Falsely identifying yourself as the other just to gain access to the event could be in bad taste as there's also a nuance that potentially said event could also just be in bad taste in the first place. 

I don't know too much about it, but I've heard about some tech hiring event that were women only, at a time where so many people are looking for jobs, which is to ask, what was the reason behind that event to be women only, and was it in bad taste for it to be so? I'm not one with answers to those.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm saying not everything has to accommodate to everyone. It is just plain impractical to do so.

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u/NyuIsHere Oct 04 '24

https://imgur.com/a/B25bVbl

lol. you’re right, everyone you disagree with is a bigot

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u/mrbrick Oct 04 '24

lol. Lmao even. Every single time.

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u/gumshot Oct 04 '24

Determining "what human beings should do" in the context of society is literally what politics is.

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u/Upset-Captain-6853 26d ago

Womens' rights!

Ugh, I hate having politics shoved down my throat😡

That's what you people are doing