damn, they really did fuck all of their goodwill up with the licensing bullshit didn't they?

i'm just glad developers finally chose a foss engine.

wait battlefield uses godot? holy shit

Man, I love the idea of an open-source Creative Cloud, but every time I launch GIMP I run screaming in the other direction. Affinity is my middle-ground for the moment.

Blender moment

Did Maya do a Unity or it it even still a thing? (Or something else that's also proprietary 🤢)

at this point i prefer photogimp over cs6, which was my previous driver. ymmv though, my workflow is abnormal.

In a GodotCon2025 talk from someone from the GodotFoundation going into the numbers they said the engine is growing 40%-60% each year at the moment and will be as big as Unity in 2028/2029. Really mind-blowing to think this probably largely is due to Unity's self-inflicted enshittyfication.

So I think it’s safe to say Godot is really here to stay. I also feel like they’re really well aligned internally to do just that. In that talk they also talked about how apparently Unity’s budget barely covers just keeping up the status quo. So they aren’t improving and delivering many new featuring anymore.

There are other tools besides the Gimp. Have you tried krita? It's a little more pen* and tablet oriented. But a solid program in its own right. And despite being part of the KDE platform if I'm not mistaken. They have excellent Windows and Mac versions as well

Didn't GIMP recently have a major resign?

Eventually. It's a long slow arc. But there's definitely a history of it. From its Inception the modern smartphone has been built almost exclusively on top of Linux or BSD. Even if proprietary presentation layers above it don't always make it perfectly clear. Similar can be said for any modern gaming console or hand held. With the exception of Microsoft's products.

Most of the modern internet, your home consumer router and maybe even some of your appliances. Built on open source code. And finally, many are switching to own their PC again. There isn't a lot of hype or fan fair publicly. But open source has been quietly putting in the work and showing up for decades.

Realistically, we're actually just returning to a pre Microsoft state. Granted before the explosion of the personal computer most computers were massive devices an individual couldn't own. And there wasn't a lot of money to be made in selling the software itself. So there was a lot of collaboration and sharing. Even if proprietary layers were built on top. The base was vital. We're finally getting back there.

This was apparently based on fields filled out during game submission. "Other" was just a selectable option among common engines, so there's no specific data to look through. I imagine it might be hard to parse every text response that might type the name of the engine used ever so slightly, but it would be nice data to have.

The thumbnail: 😯👉

Obviously I don't know your life and how much your livelihood might depend on it, but if it impacts your decision any, I think you should at least start dabbling in it. You can look at any rough edges you need to smooth over as investing in the ecosystem and, for any added effort that's still too much to justify, drop any requirement for parity. Simple stylized graphics never go out of fashion, and the hardware crisis (which I think will last closer to a decade or more than a couple years) means the market will be even slower than usual to adopt the visual quality Unreal pushes for anyway.

From what I know, it's still not great for giant open-world Skyrim type games, but it's quite respectable otherwise. You may want to take a look at the 2025 showcase, as well as Road to Vostok to see what it's capable of.

It's pretty good as long as you're not targeting high end visuals. Medium end is fine most of the time. With the Nvidia branch you can do high end with ray tracing, and people are currently working on getting more ray tracing features in the main engine.

The ssao and ssgi is still kinda terrible but there's a PR open right now to improve it

depends how good youre wanting it to be, I mostly use it for 3D projects and haven't really had any issues