amitmathew
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Comment · 3 years ago
At my last startup, our product required information that didn't exist in the digital world - the table of contents of hundreds of medical books. So I used to spend nights and weekends visiting local Barnes & Nobles and university bookstores pulling down books and manually typing out the table of contents with chapter titles, pages numbers, etc. Quite possibly the most boring job ever! Most bookstores didn't mind my presence, but I did get kicked out of one (thanks Harvard Medical School!). I tried to use OCR and other techniques and it just wasn't accurate enough (this was a decade ago so the tech wasn't quite as advanced as it is now). Eventually the company got big enough where I could have dedicated staff to handle the process, but for a long time it was how I spent my free time.
Comment · 3 years ago
Awesome! The 3D shooter course is in production now, and is looking great so far. We try to inject best practices in all of our courses as well as weighing tradeoffs when discussing different approaches to a problem.
Comment · 3 years ago
Wow...I wrote up a whimsical account of what could happen after the price increases. I got the timing wrong (I thought it would take several months for the CEO to step down), but some of it is starting to come true: https://quiver.dev/blog/stepping-into-the-unity-ceos-calfski....
Comment · 3 years ago
At Quiver, we’re building comprehensive, polished courses for Godot. We aim to take you from the basics to more advanced concepts. Our content isn’t free though, but we’re doing our best to make it worth the cost. You can check it out here: https://quiver.dev. (Disclosure: I’m the founder).
Comment · 3 years ago
Totally agree, that's why I submitted this article. I'm personally invested in seeing Godot become successful, but this type of constructive criticism is great for the ecosystem (even though some people get very defensive). I think it's exciting that there's so much room for improvement and shining light into Godot internals is a great way to expose what needs to be done.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's a good post on Reddit of a dev creating small web exports using custom builds: https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/16lti15/godot_is_not....
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm less concerned about Unreal pulling a Unity. The bigger issue is just a lack of attention. The last numbers I saw was that Unreal was pulling in $100m a year for Epic. That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Epic makes off of Fortnite. In my experience, products that matter a lot to the consumer but not the company tend to stagnate. Just look at Google outside of search.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are a couple of projects working on this. These are two of the best ones that I know of:
* Unidot: https://github.com/V-Sekai/unidot_importer
* UnityPackage For Godot: https://github.com/barcoderdev/unitypackage_godot/
Comment · 3 years ago
If anyone's looking for a quick intro to Godot 4, you can take a look at our video series: https://quiver.dev/tutorials/create-your-first-godot-4-game/. Disclaimer: this is offered by my company, but the tutorial is free and the code and assets are liberally licensed.
This move by Unity isn't completely unexpected if you've studied their financials. Smaller devs are basically dead weight for Unity, so it seemed like them putting the squeeze on them was just a matter of time. Bottom line: don't count on a public company to do the right thing if you're not helping their bottom line.
Comment · 3 years ago
W4 Games, which was founded by some of the Godot devs, also recently announced console support: https://w4games.com/2023/08/06/w4-games-unveils-w4-consoles-....
Comment · 3 years ago
It's funny, I met the two co-creators of Godot at GDC this year and they both pronounce it differently. So there may never be a consensus!
Comment · 3 years ago
We have a free tutorial for Godot 4 that takes you from the start to a complete game in about two hours. You can find it here: https://quiver.dev/tutorials/create-your-first-godot-4-game/.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of the company that produced this course, but the tutorial is free and the custom assets used in the tutorial are liberally licensed.
Comment · 3 years ago
Depends how you define well-known. The Godot showcase lists some of the popular ones: https://godotengine.org/showcase/. I believe Dome Keeper did $1m+ in sales with a 2-person team and I assume Brotato and Cruelty Squad are probably in 7 figures as well. So far, the hits have definitely been on the smaller side, but I expect things will change with Godot 4 being released. Another big factor is that most of the games released so far have been developed by tiny teams.
Previously founded Cram Fighter, a study planner for medical students (exited 2021), and Centrana, a startup in the patient education space. Former professional game developer.
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