Dev Update (28/09/2023)

Hi!

Since the video is now out and there's no more speculation around this engine-topic, I would like to mention few things before I start that fullscale Godot port today.

1. I'm well aware of Godot's limitations and current issues, I could list tens of problems with each engine and Godot is no different here. I basically watched all the "bad" videos / articles / comments about the Godot already last week and I have enough experience to know if they are truly long-term serious problems and if they would been, I would not have decided to make this switch.

Many people forget that game engines are just platforms and it's your job to customize them for you needs or adapt with the current limitations. There's no way that one engine can be fully tailored for every possible genre and game idea, so the "off-the-shelf" version of Godot is just going to be the starting point for me.

2. There's obviously a "thing" going on already now that RTV might become the flagship product for Godot or something like that. If there's anything that I can do to help with the development, I'm more than happy to help but there were no marketing deals, agreements or anything like that related to this decision, that is not how I operate.

I chose Godot simply because I see the open-source potential, I'm having fun while using the engine and even with the current limitations, it's totally viable engine for this game idea. Godot can already provide the positive ecosystem, there's a lot of opportunities already now and it's just something where I want to place this project for the long-term.

If there's a possibility that my work and this project might help Godot to get more positive exposure, that's great but that will be based purely on my development progression with the engine and normal RTV videos / content like I did before. In other words, this project isn't going to be a marketing platform or anything like that, my job is just to make a cool game and that's the only thing that I'm going to focus.

3. It was quite a tough few weeks to consider all the scenarios and risks that this thing could generate, so I'm really happy to see that vast majority is supporting my decision and being positive about the engine choice.

There was a serious risk with this announcement video and it could have caused totally different outcome, so I really tried to be "neutral" in that video, without being hateful towards any other engines and I think the tone in that video was just like I wanted. That's why the video was also a bit delayed since I wanted to get that tone right, so I re-edited some parts to reflect more about my personality, though process and so on.

4. I'm honestly really happy that I can now focus on the development, I mean really happy. I have zero stress or concerns about the whole thing anymore and I think this Unity situation could actually be one the best things that happened to this project in the long run :)

I will be sharing details about the upcoming test builds next week, I seriously need some help with the testing (especially hardware stuff) since I have no way of getting that information and knowledge about the engine performance otherwise.

I will be including some additional debug tools to these upcoming builds, so you can also get a bit more knowledge about the engine and tools that developers use when testing these things.

Thanks for your support!

- Antti (Developer)