| I second this opinion. As a (non-hobbyist) game developer, I started my current game with Godot, but after running into many issues including performance which was the final dealbreaker, I decided to port the whole game to Unity. Finally I could focus on developing the game rather than running into engine related issues and limitations and having access to all the time saving assets in the Asset Store was (literally) game changing. Having the Asset Store is a whole new world. And as a dev with funds, paying for assets to save weeks of time was a no brainer. Back to Godot, yes deleting stuff in Godot is pretty scary cause there is (or at least was) no way to know what effects/errors it could cause. GUI system (at least last time I used it) was very unfortunately not well designed making it extremely hard to get consistent positionings. I feel it's so bad that just using HTML+CSS would be better cause then it would be possible to confidently put things and keep them where you want to. And yes, overall as someone who has also used the C++ side, it does feel like some guy's homebrew engine. I felt things weren't as solidly designed as they could be. And this is talking about foundational stuff. The C++ source code is really not modern C++ (or you could call it anti-modern C++). I would not advise anyone to develop a game on it if your livelihood depended on your game's success. Of course people can and will prove me wrong by still powering through and creating a successful game with it, but your time is better spent using a more mature engine like Unity or Unreal. Even if you want to get your hands dirty and help fix bugs or add features to the engine, there is no guarantee that your PR will be merged. Game development is probably the most riskiest type of software development already business-wise. No need to up your risk. Of course if you are a hobby indie dev and do it just for the enjoyment of building things, then no problem. As for Godot's future ... well it's been many, many years, but if I understand correctly they're mainly still working on 3D rendering features. There are tons of other areas that are still the same with the same limitations as they were years (5 years+) ago. I think with not so solid foundation and the pace of development, it will take many many years if ever to catch up to Unity. I do like the way Godot engine does some things and I do hope for it's success as competition is always good. I just don't have much faith in it from what I've seen. I do hope I will be proven wrong though. |