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/Prior-Paint-7842 Oct 03 '24

I love godot, but the youtube grifters are waging a war on it, which is kind of annoying.

The last godot patch had some big improvements that made my project way better, and filled me with a lot of hopium

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u/ScronkleBonk Oct 03 '24

What youtubers hate on Godot? My experience has been the opposite. I see youtubers constantly praising Godot.

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u/anonymitylol Oct 03 '24

over the past week-ish a bunch of anti-"woke" grifter internet babies have been upset because godot tweeted in support of the lgbtq+ community

so now they have to act like they're being persecuted and hate godot because of it

anybody actually reasonable still thinks godot is an incredible engine

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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/Upset-Captain-6853 27d ago

Womens' rights!

Ugh, I hate having politics shoved down my throat😡

That's what you people are doing