W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth

Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by jszymborski on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:42PM (#32828525)

Cruelty Squad[0] really demonstrated to me what incredible things can be done with Godot, but I think the game is to... how to say this... out there? It has an _extremely_ stylised aesthetic. I have a hard time thinking of any game like it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_Squad

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by nightowl_games on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:58PM (#32828740)

Frayhem [1] is an awesome game using Godot with Nim.

Rocket Bot Royale [2] is a game I worked on using Godot. We released it on lots of platforms: Google Play, iOS, mac app store, pc/mac/linux on steam, and several HTML game sites. It has cross platform multiplayer with custom netcode written in c++, and pretty advanced SDF based terrain destruction. I think it's pretty good.

We are currently making a new game using Godot which I'm excited about.

https://rocketbotroyale.winterpixel.io/

https://frayhem.com/en/

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by jszymborski on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:13PM (#32828951)

Played a few minutes of Rocket Bot Royale and it is pretty fun! I'm so happy that since the demise of Flash, games in the browser have only gotten better.

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by nightowl_games on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:23PM (#32829725)

I'm happy to hear that.

As a game developer, the state of game development is really exciting from a technological point of view. From a business point of view, it is very hard to compete, the market is very saturated. We are hoping to carve out a niche of high quality multiplayer games on the web.

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by poulpy123 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:34AM (#32836257)

talking about godot and nim, Turing Complete was also developped in godot+nim https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by tomcam on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:37PM (#32829221)

What was your process to getting it on other platforms that Godot does not currently support?

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by nightowl_games on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:01PM (#32829493)

All of those platforms are supported by Godot. Steam is supported through a developed and advanced module. We have a very small amount of custom platform specific code for iOS and Android.

Consoles on Godot are the hard part and thats what W4 is going to offer. I think Switch would be easy as it supports OpenGLES. Xbox and playstation would be harder, but I havent looked into it.

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by tomcam on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:17PM (#32830876)

Thanks so much for the inside info

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by danjoredd on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:20PM (#32829695)

Yeah, its pretty out there. I like it though, because besides the awful aesthetics, the attitude feels very "punk" and even a little countercultural. Its not for everyone and I can't blindly recommend it, but I like it for those reasons.

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