Re:Announcing the MonoGame Foundation
by HideousKojima on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:07AM
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The biggest advantage Unity has over alternatives like Godot and MonoGame is the ecosystem around the engine, not the engine itself. Things like the asset store and the wealth of tutorials out there. It will take time for the ecosystems around open source engines to match or exceed that of Unity, but the more people leave Unity the faster that will happen.
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Re:Announcing the MonoGame Foundation
by lambda_garden on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:38AM
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Unity and MonoGame are not really comparable. Unity is a game engine that is also an IDE, whereas MonoGame is simply a set of libraries.
Re:Announcing the MonoGame Foundation
by Qwertious on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:10AM
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Or to give an example: Unity provides a decent workflow for artists. XNA doesn't.
An engine that also targets consoles and VR headsets, uses C# as the main language, has an AOT toolchain for it, thanks to HPC# subset also allows for low level engine code in C#, and naturally the graphical debugging tools for profiling and GPU.