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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Godot have C# extentions available?

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does! But this is for people looking for more alternatives. Different people like different things.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fair enough.

Also, speaking of alternatives, people should check out O3DE. It's based on Amazon Lumberyard, which itself it based on CryEngine, but it's FOSS and managed by the Linux Foundation.

Interestingly enough, Epic Games is a premier member, along with many other companies.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epic games funds a lot of open source game projects, they've funded blender and Godot multiple times.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what their motive is.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more game developers there are, the more potential talent they have. The more game developers there are, the more games there are to sell.

They also understand that Unreal isn't super accessible for beginners.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could also be to prevent a potential antitrust lawsuit, since they have a de facto monopoly on AAA game engines.

Kind of like Google funding Mozilla.