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There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch. Shared on Twitter, which seems to have raised the eyebrows of and excited many developers, is a new project that aims to let you import Unity projects into Godot. 

Pictured above is the rather large POLYGON Fantasy Kingdom Unity environment, which is used as one of the examples on the GitHub page of the project. Currently it seems to have been tested working on macOS and Windows, so hopefully anyone doing Linux will be willing to give it a run. This could be a really interesting boost for Godot Engine and FOSS development, if the project continues to go well.

According to the project it so far has all this implemented:

Components:

  • GameObject
  • MeshFilter
  • MeshRenderer
  • SkinnedMeshRenderer
  • Transform
  • Stripped Transform
  • Light
  • Camera

Importers:

  • DefaultImporter
  • ModelImporter
  • NativeFormatImporter
  • PrefabImporter
  • TextureImporter
  • ShaderImporter
  • AudioImporter

The project is under the MIT license.

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FSFmember May 24, 2023
Do you know any games using Godot? Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.

edit: Actually - found a list of last year games mentioned here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o

Brotato being one of of them - hugely successful game. Seems Godot is already pretty significant player.


Last edited by FSFmember on 24 May 2023 at 1:14 pm UTC
Pengling May 24, 2023
Do you know any games using Godot?
One that I've been playing lately is the Early Access Star Fox-style rail-shooter, Ex-Zodiac.

Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.
You might want their Showcase page.
Liam Dawe May 24, 2023
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Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 May 2023 at 1:20 pm UTC
FSFmember May 24, 2023
You might want their Showcase page.
Yes, definitely missed it, seen their youtube account first which does a good job.
Godot is becoming a force to be taken seriously, that's for sure. I remember it from 2014 - seems it made big leaps forward since then.
FSFmember May 24, 2023
You can also check out our tag https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/category/Godot_Engine/
'Tis actually a useful resource, kudos.
elmapul May 24, 2023
combine that with this, and we might have something really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zLAxOuZbk
FSFmember May 24, 2023
combine that with this, and we might have something really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zLAxOuZbk
good thinking! Absolutely! let's go!
elmapul May 24, 2023
"ShaderImporter"
impressive o.o
elmapul May 24, 2023
Do you know any games using Godot? Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.

edit: Actually - found a list of last year games mentioned here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o

Brotato being one of of them - hugely successful game. Seems Godot is already pretty significant player.

TailQuest Defense
Ex-Zodiac
Pingo Adventure
ProtoCorgi
Primal Light
Gourdlets
Project Heartbeat
Circle of kerzoven
Fist of the forgotten
Brotato
Dome Keeper
Blastronaut
Beat Invaders
Lumencraft
Cassette Beasts
and of course:
The Interactive Adventures of DogMendonça and PizzaBoy

you're welcome.

there is also Sonic Colors Ultimate wich combined their own code written in C with an custom built of godot that they used internally and called it something else in the relase, but people dumping the files and trying to reverse then to mod and stuff quickly realized it was made on godot.


Last edited by elmapul on 24 May 2023 at 2:34 pm UTC
FSFmember May 24, 2023
Do you know any games using Godot? Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.

edit: Actually - found a list of last year games mentioned here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o

Brotato being one of of them - hugely successful game. Seems Godot is already pretty significant player.

TailQuest Defense
Ex-Zodiac
Pingo Adventure
ProtoCorgi
Primal Light
Gourdlets
Project Heartbeat
Circle of kerzoven
Fist of the forgotten
Brotato
Dome Keeper
Blastronaut
Beat Invaders
Lumencraft
Cassette Beasts
and of course:
The Interactive Adventures of DogMendonça and PizzaBoy

you're welcome.

there is also Sonic Colors Ultimate wich combined their own code written in C with an custom built of godot that they used internally and called it something else in the relase, but people dumping the files and trying to reverse then to mod and stuff quickly realized it was made on godot.
Yes, I've actually corrected myself and listed the link in the post you quoted that already contains a lot, though not all of those games. But I think as an example to get the general idea it's enough. that was my point, to get to see the actual games
The games definitely look better than from RPG maker, yet they still carry a little scent of cheap indie in them - But that's likely not the problem of the engine, rather a feature of the games. The engine is capable of full 3d as I've seen already. And it's only going to get better.

custom built of godot that they used internally and called it something else in the relase
Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .


Last edited by FSFmember on 24 May 2023 at 2:53 pm UTC
elmapul May 24, 2023
Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .

nope, that dont violate godot licence at all!
its MIT not GPL!
its just a shame they didnt give credit to it, it would be a massive boost for its popularity
Calinou May 24, 2023
Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .

Blind Squirrel Studios patched the game after launch to make it compliant with Godot's license :)


Last edited by Calinou on 24 May 2023 at 3:22 pm UTC
FSFmember May 24, 2023
Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .

nope, that dont violate godot licence at all!
its MIT not GPL!
its just a shame they didnt give credit to it, it would be a massive boost for its popularity

Yes I know, why would you think I've assumed it's GPL? https://godotengine.org/license/ clearly states:

You are free to use Godot Engine, for any purpose
You can study how Godot Engine works and change it
You can distribute unmodified and changed versions of Godot Engine, even commercially and under a different license (including proprietary)

The only restriction to that third freedom is that you need to distribute the copyright notice and license statement of Godot Engine whenever you redistribute it. So your derivative product may have a different license, but should still state in its documentation that it derives from the MIT licensed Godot Engine (see below).
So IANAL but I think they broke the license according to what you said (i'm not familiar with the original story at all)
IANAL but can follow plain text.


Last edited by FSFmember on 24 May 2023 at 3:26 pm UTC
elmapul May 24, 2023
You are free to use Godot Engine, for any purpose
You can study how Godot Engine works and change it
You can distribute unmodified and changed versions of Godot Engine, even commercially and under a different license (including proprietary)

The only restriction to that third freedom is that you need to distribute the copyright notice and license statement of Godot Engine whenever you redistribute it. So your derivative product may have a different license, but should still state in its documentation that it derives from the MIT licensed Godot Engine (see below).
So IANAL but I think they broke the license according to what you said (i'm not familiar with the original story at all)
IANAL but can follow plain text.
o.O wow now i'm a bit surprised i guess read it licence a LOOONG time ago, so i couldnt remember that part
FSFmember May 24, 2023
You are free to use Godot Engine, for any purpose
You can study how Godot Engine works and change it
You can distribute unmodified and changed versions of Godot Engine, even commercially and under a different license (including proprietary)

The only restriction to that third freedom is that you need to distribute the copyright notice and license statement of Godot Engine whenever you redistribute it. So your derivative product may have a different license, but should still state in its documentation that it derives from the MIT licensed Godot Engine (see below).
So IANAL but I think they broke the license according to what you said (i'm not familiar with the original story at all)
IANAL but can follow plain text.
o.O wow now i'm a bit surprised i guess read it licence a LOOONG time ago, so i couldnt remember that part
That's all right.

Cheers
Klaas May 24, 2023
Very interesting. I wonder if anyone has tried it with DagerfallUnity?
Purple Library Guy May 24, 2023
This seems pretty cool.
ElectricPrism May 24, 2023
Do you know any games using Godot?
One that I've been playing lately is the Early Access Star Fox-style rail-shooter, Ex-Zodiac.

Thanks, didn't know this was a thing bought a copy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
Pengling May 24, 2023
Thanks, didn't know this was a thing bought a copy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
I hope you enjoy it! I originally found out about it here on GOL, funnily enough!

I love what's available so far, and I'm not the sort to support Early Access stuff otherwise. Even if it somehow goes no further, it's proven to be exactly what I wanted, and as I posted recently it's easily my favourite out of all of the Star Fox spiritual-successors that I've tried.
Maath May 24, 2023
I wonder, whatever happened to the Ogre engine?
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