[Godot]Finally realistic 3D games now can be made for free

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hhfu60/godot_40_gets_sdf_based_realtime_global/
No more bullshit with commercial licenses and proprietary engines. Godot 4.0 has global illumination using SDF.

It's only free if you're time is worth nothing

>>2
Yeah, tell that to people implementing their own half-baked 3D engines that will reach feature parity with Godot in 1000 years.

Looks like garbage. Unreal and Unity are free if you don't make any money, and profit share is you do. And believe me, you are far more likely to make any money with Unreal than with some crappy student project of an engine.

Then again, video games are more about gameplay and art, than about engines. And photo realistic graphics requires expensive and well trained artists, whose skills are far better employed in a professional engine, like Unreal.

>>3
People don't checklist engine features when they buy games

>>5
Totally missing the point: there are many people including on this very site that believe doing it themselves 100%(game engine, game,art) is the only true way to write games(and not a time-wasting delusion that can be x100 shorter).

>>5
People don't buy games, they microtransact them.

>plebbit

>>6
I know we have this discussion every 2 weeks and I gladly post the links again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_4_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

97% of these are made with a custom engine

>>7
This is kinda true. It's a good business model. But it only really works with multiplayer games.

>>9
But most indie devs are not "temporary embarassed studio managers", they can't afford to waste years for reinventing wheels..

>>11
https://steam250.com/tag/indie

Fine 1/2 in the top 10.

Notice the top 4 are custom.
Notice 8 and 9 are free and could've been made in Powerpoint.

The time = money argument still stands. If you're blocked you want to pay support so it gets resolved quickly. If you've an inhouse engine that's not a problem.

Indie devs is a nebulous term anyway. Do I stop being a Indie dev after I've got my life together?

Ultimate argument:
How much would it take to make this from scratch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MzsDBI5EI

>>15
Not much. Half a day for a prototype.

Do realize this is a dishonest video. He planned and thought this out beforehand. He also skipped the setup.

The channel leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's great that people are having fun and making things but this guy very much feels like a guru. Just like the ``get rich quick'' gurus he's not a pro himself but still teaches newbs. His videos are half knowledge wrapped in a pretty coat.

Ultimate rebuttal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNZzLYncgWg

>>15
He heven't made the game in 10 minutes, he has input a pre-made game in 10 minutes. He haven't even design the game, just took existing one, and a very simple for that matter, which happens to rely on the existing Unity primitives, like the collision.

Real game design is an iterative process. First you get an idea. Then implement that idea in a prototype. Play test it. If it is unfun, then scrap the idea or try to modify it to make it fun, after analyzing why it is unfun in the first place.