Zero-Cost Empowerment: Build the Game of Your Dreams
This is kind of huge, isn't it? I've been seeing this engine around for a while (it was still in closed alpha I believe) and it seemed really well done. It's a Godot fork that's intended to be a simpler experience like Roblox, where it has visual scripting, handles all the multiplayer itself, and allows you to create worlds collaboratively with friends and co-workers in real-time.
The only thing people seemed iffy about was monetization and its closed-source nature, but now that it's here and FOSS, anyone think it might blow up and be a great introduction to game development for beginners and kids?
I'll probably test it and see how it is later, but it does seem like it's still in alpha.
The people that handle the engine posting that meme on what is supposed to be an official website is bad enough, but i think they dont even understand why Fortnite and Roblox are popular, they are not popular because they are easy to use, they are popular because they are easy to use AND they are attached to two of the most popular and well known games on earth.
Obviously i hope that stuff like Godot gets more traction, but saying that this is going to dethrone or kill uefn and roblox is just hilarous tbh.
Edit: Oh, i see now why everything seemed so sketchy, they have been promoting this since 2022 as a platform for metaverses, webchain and all that web3 bullshit
Edit: Oh, i see now why everything seemed so sketchy, they have been promoting this since 2022 as a platform for metaverses, webchain and all that web3 bullshit
That might've been the investor pitch but luckily it doesn't seem like any of that has made it into what exists now. Seems like they're just going to take a percentage of profit from games on their platform.
People’s sudden, blind hatred for anything to do with crypto is a great indicator of their own personal incapacity for critical thinking and a proclivity to lazily adopt the opinions of their peers.
Crypto bad! /s
Wait until you find out that in-game items in MMORPG’s are really just NFT’s under a less crypto-bro pseudonym!
Perhaps you should boycott all online video games entirely because they’re all technically using crypto bro concepts like NFT’s to represent in-game items.
You're so, so close. MMORPG items aren't the pseudonyms, NFTs are. As you say, they're hardly different and nobody has ever tried marketing those as someone entirely new and amazing. That's the issue with NFTs, they're marketing bullshit because why would you market online items as being revolutionary
Haha, thats so funny that inside your own comment you tell why nfts are a scam and the blockchain solves no real problem and then had the guts to send the message.
It seems like they have a platform/launcher with user-created content in it. They get 10% marketplace fee but since it's fully open source you can probably publish your game outside of their platform.