#unity #unity3d really shat the bed, and speaking as a full-time #panda3d simp, now seems like a good time to simp hard and get some people to see the light. It's battle-tested for #MMORPG and #VR by #Disney back in the day (#BSD3 now). Use #python to write your #3D games so you don't waste another minute on #compiling. Has -all- the features, from skeletal animation and glsl to a robust shader pipeline to collisions and physics. Not to mention amazing community! #gamedev http://panda3d.org
Wrote a very simple #livecoding #repl for #panda3d so I don't have to constantly restart #python every time I make a little change. This works like a dream and is going to make writing #procedural #art tons more #convenient #gamedev
You can get the code here: https://discourse.panda3d.org/t/simple-live-coder/29594
This goes with what I said earlier, every gamedev community (outside of /agdg/ threads) is pozzed. You will be ostracized unless you fully subscribe to SJW ideology. It's why even in the indie scene, it's hard to find non-pozzed game developers. You even have to request an account (while providing links to other sites and profiles for manual approval) just to be on this instance.
In the wake of the Godot situation, I am here to recommend alternatives. Not all of these are engines. Some of them are frameworks, but all of these are FOSS and general purpose.
2D:
* SDL - https://www.libsdl.org/
* SFML - http://www.sfml-dev.org/
* Allegro - http://liballeg.org/
* Gosu - https://www.libgosu.org/
* Love2D - https://love2d.org/
* Pygame- https://www.pygame.org/
* FreeBASIC - https://www.freebasic.net/
* raylib - http://www.raylib.com/
3D:
* Irrlicht Engine - https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/
* OGRE - https://www.ogre3d.org/
* ioquake3 - https://ioquake3.org/
* Panda3D - https://www.panda3d.org/
Both:
* MonoGame - https://monogame.net
* GDevelop - https://gdevelop.io/
* jMonkeyEngine - https://jmonkeyengine.org/
* Lightweight Java Game Library - http://lwjgl.org/
#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #godot #godotengine
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Godot moderators are going insane blocking anyone they perceive as criticizing their political messaging... Including people who have been long-time Titanium donors. I'll bet that donations to their project are going to tank pretty quickly... Probably even have a lawsuit on their hands. That's what you get when you bring the activists into your organization.
"Godot's self destruction begins as major devs begin to question the amateur and vindictive response of the community and discord managers of the open source game engine."
https://x.com/Grummz/status/1840479153365409912
Get a load of this Godot discord mod post history 👀
https://x.com/GamesNosh/status/1840499469160190381
"Tech guys need to stop putting their social media in the hands of activists, even if they do it for free. The guy who made Godot has been replying to people today saying he has no idea why people are being blocked that haven't even interacted with it."
https://x.com/GamesNosh/status/1840084034682044605
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