<story><title>Random Thoughts about Unity</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pathless</author><text>Unity has become an unfocused, poorly optimized, half-baked mess. This WAS bad for the independent and small developer market that actually uses their engine for final builds, but they&amp;#x27;ve begun a mass exodus to Godot, which happened to go from &amp;quot;ok&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;great&amp;quot; JUST as Unity ruined their platform with their short lived &amp;quot;20 cents per install&amp;quot; policy.&lt;p&gt;Someday soon, we will see Godot eclipse Unity in the same fashion that so many other proprietary juggernauts were slowly cannibalized by laser-focused open source projects over the years:&lt;p&gt;In 2022, the split among GMTK participants was 16% Godot to 61% Unity. In 2023, it was 22% Godot to 49% Unity. This year, it was a whopping 37% Godot to 43% Unity: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is major, because Godot has just had another round of home run improvements that brought in even more developers. I think 2025 is the year that Godot effectively replaces Unity for new developers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Random Thoughts about Unity</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raytopia</author><text>Unity is still a pretty good tool overall but just like the author states they are going in too many directions at once and it&amp;#x27;s hurting usability. And of course there&amp;#x27;s the problem with Unity Technologies not making enough income to be sustainable long term and trying to capture more value from its users.&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of people are very excited about Godot replacing Unity but I honestly hope that the 3D engine market becomes more diverse. I&amp;#x27;d argue a lot of engine tech and ways of creating games hasn&amp;#x27;t innovated as much as it could have if there was more competition in the space.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot of awesome 3D frameworks and engines out there and they should get some attention too.</text></comment>