Godot really feels life Delphi for games

eye776

Given that I've worked a bit with Godot now, it really does feel close to how Delphi felt for desktop apps. Well other than the language which is obviously not Pascal. But other than that, congratulations are in order, this might just be easier to use than Unity. As for my experience I've tried a lot of engines/frameworks in the past: Unity, Cryengine, Unreal, Atomic and even stuff like Torque, Dark Basic and 3D Gamestudio, back in the early 00's.

Unfortunately the editor still stops and/or crashes quite a bit (well 2.2 crashes a lot less often than 2.1 etc.) but time will likely solve that. Fortunately the crashing doesn't seem to extend to the games.

razvanc-r

Sooo, is this good or bad? :)

eye776

Well, it's good! Of course it's good. I compared it with Delphi because, back in its day, it changed the RAD paradigm for the better. Same here, I've never prototyped quite as fast in other tools, even GameMaker.

I mean the IDE does crash sometimes but otherwise it works really well. It's really snappy, in fact even the 3.0 alpha works OK even on older PCs (like mine where Unity has been getting slower lately and Crysis no longer even runs). With all the changes planned for 3.0 even the issues I had with GDScript will be mostly gone and I've seen C# in the pipes too.

My only big issue right now is the DAE import/export pipeline. There's no surefire exporter and sometimes you have to try all of them.

razvanc-r

Sure, that's why reduz wants to drop the dae thing and make a blender -> tscn exporter, should be fun :-)

Tocran

Hopefully, it won't get same marketshare !