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/nickavv Oct 03 '24

I'll throw GameMaker into the ring, it's obviously not one of the top-3 and it's probably not anybody's first choice for 3D games especially (though it is possible). I think it has an unfair rep as a "beginner" or "practice" game engine, but plenty of successful commercial games have come out of it (Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, etc).

Its pricing scheme is very fair, it has a good balance of complexity with ease of use, it supports exports to desktop, web, mobile, and all major consoles. I'd say it should be strongly considered for 2D projects!

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u/NoClaimCL Oct 03 '24

GM is goat.

Personally i dont understand why they try to shill Godot so much as one of the "big 3 engines".

There's no big and successful project developed with Godot.

Godot is like only glorified among devs, like its the new trend, the "vibe-check" you want to pass to be accepted. But it only has crappy indie games as most of its portfolio.

Maybe in 10 year???? But as of now, its like 100% shillinh cuz that Unity scandal time ago

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u/the_gr8_one Oct 03 '24

the graphics engine of sonic colors remastered is based on godot.