Godot Engine open sourced

Re:Godot Engine open sourced by archagon on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:46AM (#7209674)

Looks great! What are the benefits of using this over something like Unity?

EDIT: Sorry if this sounded sarcastic. I was genuinely curious. Always happy to see a new engine out in the open!

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by pjmlp on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:03AM (#7209715)

Lets see:

- you are not stuck with .NET 3.5

- you can use Linux as your development environment

- you have the full package, instead of the various SKUs

On the other hand, if you have Unity experience, it is a plus in the industry.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by Gusfoo_2 on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:57AM (#7209887)

> Looks great! What are the benefits of using this over something like Unity?

For my industry (gambling) Unity costs $200K/title. Price gouging IMO but it's their business to charge what they like.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by Kiro on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:01AM (#7211382)

I had a look at https://store.unity3d.com/products/pricing and I don't understand how it can cost you $200K per title.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by talklittle on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:21AM (#7211484)

The page doesn't disclose the price of the license for gambling. It says to contact them down at the bottom of the page. "Other Unity licenses available."

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by Kiro on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:52AM (#7217140)

Ah, thanks. I didn't see that. It's crazy that they can charge that much though just because it's used in gambling. I mean, the software is the same, right?

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by SomeCallMeTim on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:54AM (#7209691)

No black box? Ability to actually debug problems and change the source when you need? Lack of licensing fees (to support all platforms)?

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by pikachu_is_cool on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:33AM (#7209804)

Puts on Richard Stallman cap

Freedom.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by virgi1 on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:02AM (#7210278)

Nope. Not GPL-licensed.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by garg on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:27AM (#7210391)

MIT License is GPL-compatible.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by einhverfr on Monday February 10, 2014 @09:25AM (#7211190)

Cue the BSD vs MIT license flame wars over whether the BSD license is free enough or whether one needs the sublicense right grant in the MIT license to achieve full freedom ;-)

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by pikachu_is_cool on Monday February 10, 2014 @05:22PM (#7214262)

I consider the MIT license to be freer than the GPL. Nonetheless, you can fork it and slap the GPL license on it if that lets you sleep at night.

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Re:Godot Engine open sourced by oscargrouch on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:21PM (#7212220)

and here we go..

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