I am probably going to get downvoted, but Godot isn't a replacement for UE (yet). It can be used if one is a solo dev, or can be used to replace Unity.

I have used Godot and am using UE almost daily, I have also used some assets in the video. 70 FPS for those low poly assets on a tiny map, running on RTX 5080 isn't good, quite the opposite. I'll get much better result in UE using the exact same assets. The video doesn't talk much about UE.

Most assets are made with UE/Unity in mind. So they'll 'look good' if you just import into those engines. Every engine uses a different way of setting up lighting, refelctions, shadows. If I directly import a UE asset into Godot, it will look bad because I have to setup lighting for it.

Someone made a comparison of reflections in Godot and UE on discord. Reflections look wrong in Godot when you compare that to UE. Godot is getting better, but it's not quite there yet. In O3DE's (another foss game engine, but slop) discord, someone vibecoded its renderer Atom, into Godot, and even that slop had better reflections.

Also the reason people use UE is not just good lighting/flash, it's things like Blueprint, Gameplay Abilities system, accessible facial mocap, GASP, templates and other systems already implemented for you. All of these are not primary focus in a general use engine like Godot/Unity. I need to use a separate plugin for terrain scultping in Godot. I know devs (mostly designers) who use UE just because of the Blueprint visual scripting.

What I don't get is, there are other small open source engines that have much better 'defaults'. Maybe it's the Godot Foundation's way of having everything done differently. Or maybe they can't do a breaking change when they are supporting really old hardware too.

I don't think games made with Godot look bad, quite the oppsite if people look at devlogs or posts shared by devs on socials. It is really great for the PSX style games.

Thanks for all the work you and the organizations do! I didn't think like you, but now I'm interested, being able to jump ship quickly as I have control is interesting. I'm a noob to this, can you share resources/software you use for encrypting emails and stuff ?

I feel this. I'm looking for a job, and in the mean time I'm creating projects for my protfolio where I have to use proprietary crap. I use the AI model, the software company provided because I don't enjoy using that software, but will have to for a living.

What I'm doing to keep my sanity is actually learning another language and contributing to a few projects that have banned LLMs. There are really good projects with good intentions and amazing maintainers who actually need help. They could use our help.

These are dark times, but I believe many meat proxies, and slop will end when the bubble pops. Not to bring US politics into this (I'm not even American) but this recent election result is going to make things difficult for those fucking companies to slither out of. Most of these companies (atleast in my country) are relying on the subsidized plans. When that ends/gets worse (which they will as AI agents are just subscription products), most of these deskilled losers might just move on to the next grift. Many won't even bother or have the hardware (most people in my country can barely afford a PC) to run good models locally

I have hope. We lose only when we give up, Delusional ? Maybe

I was looking at Infomaniak on alternativeto and found these :

1. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law
2. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law/28065/11
3. https://xitter.cf/infomaniak/status/1931658700743135261#m

I'm not sure what to make of them, as when I tried to sign up they wanted phone verification, their offering in free tier seems too generous, and with no encryption, they could hand over information easily (and yes ik email isn't the most secure form of communication and there are better tools)

Thanks! That was an insightful read. Didn't know models/learning could be this efficient and small. Main reasons why I asked is, I saw another app on Reddit that mentioned learning is done locally, but others found out it was alloted to gemini on users' phone (which the dev insisted was done locally but not really privacy respecting imo) and almost every app with such a feature was humongous. Thanks for making Aftergleam and keeping it open source

Hi, I've been using the app ever since it was on F-droid. I wanted to ask you about the learning/model. The app is under 2MB, so where is the model/learning done ? Is the learning assigned to gemini ?

Haven't played Crimson Skies, but since people are recommending Star Citizen/Squadron42, does Everspace 2 come close to what you want ?

Best we can do is another acronym for Trump or a bumper sticker

Bro Reddit has horrible UI/UX

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwlJIeAwovY

This is interesting, especially if you can customize it for game development. Most gamedevs are still using github as Codeberg doesn't allow commercial projects (?). If you can integrate this with Godot, Bevy, Fyrox etc I'd say you have a good chance of finding users. I know EU studios like Larian are using Gitlab, but for indie devs who can't self host, this could prove to be an alternative.

1. Are you hosting this on your hardware or using a host ?

2. I saw community governance on the site, that is great. Are you registered as a non-profit or PBC ? Being either of these'd give indie devs much more assurance