Godot Arrives In the Epic Games Store (godotengine.org) 28
The open-source, cross-platform Godot Engine has arrived in the Epic Games store. "Starting today, you can choose to use EGS to download the engine and keep it up to date with every release," writes the company in a blog post. From the release: Epic Games is a long-time supporter of Godot, and thanks to their contributions we have been able to improve our rendering pipeline as well as our built-in scripting language, GDScript -- the fruits of that work are now visible in the newly released Godot 4.0!
The Godot build you can download from EGS is the exact same open source release as on other platforms. Being present on more storefronts opens a new convenient avenue for more users to find the engine and begin their game development journey. You can of course still download Godot Engine from other platforms, or clone its source code from the Git repository and build it yourself. And if you do, you are more than welcome to contribute to Godot's development too!
The Godot build you can download from EGS is the exact same open source release as on other platforms. Being present on more storefronts opens a new convenient avenue for more users to find the engine and begin their game development journey. You can of course still download Godot Engine from other platforms, or clone its source code from the Git repository and build it yourself. And if you do, you are more than welcome to contribute to Godot's development too!
Good! (Score:5, Funny)
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I came here for this. Thank you, sir.
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Maybe he never heard of Duke Nukem Forever? (Score:1)
Godot... (Score:5, Funny)
Gal Godot? Count me in.
Dammit you idiots (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, can't you idiots be more original? I had two jokes lined up for this. One was based on "waiting for", and my backup was a "Gal Gadot" joke. Both ideas were taken in the FIRST TWO COMMENTS. Yeah so basically fuck you all. You guys suck at being original!
Re: Dammit you idiots (Score:2)
You're saying the first two comments were the jokes and that's tragic? So, a tragicomedy in two acts?
Say it ain't so, Godot!
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You want bad Godot jokes?
What did Godot say when he finally showed up? "Sorry, I'm late, time is a social construct anyway."
Why did Vladimir and Estragon keep staring at each other? They were trying to remember who was supposed to bring the existential crisis snacks.
What did Godot say when he finally showed up? "I'm sorry I'm late, I was stuck in a never-ending cycle of self-reflection and introspection."
good job (Score:2)
copy and pasting the entire article from the website
The actual interesting point (Score:5, Interesting)
The point here is that Epic is effectively competing with Godot. Their primary product is Unreal Engine. Godot offers a solid engine to build an indie game of, and so does Unreal.
The fact that Epic is putting that on their store is another sign that they are serious about trying to foster competition in the PC gaming market.
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Thank you.
The article was fucking useless.
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If only Epic made their store more like GoG.
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I would prefer they made it more like Steam. GoG store is awful. It's the offline installers they offer that are great.
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The whole point of GoG is that there's no DRM anywhere. That's why you can have offline installers.
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Before we continue, do you understand that offline installers can have DRM?
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Not since Securom.
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Then there's no common ground to be found.
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The fact that Epic is putting that on their store is another sign that they are serious about trying to foster competition in the PC gaming market.
No. It's another sign that their previous strategy has failed to give them a foothold in the market. Epic were very clear on the onset, their store was going to be carefully curated and only high quality content. They will not be like Steam and allow anything in.
Fast forward 4 years, the store is still baren, their market share is abysmal despite sinking close to $1bn a year into exclusives and giveaways and suddenly their new strategy is quite openly: "Anyone can publish anything they want. ... except porn
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Wait, they were? Last I checked, their "free game every week" plan had plenty of shovelware on it. Since the beginning.
Or does that somehow magically not count in your "only quality content" narrative?
Spam! Attention Slashdot Admins! (Score:1)
Hey this guy has been posting sketchy links for like 2 years! Ban his whole c-class!
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This narrative is as tired as it's wrong.
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In your ideological blindness, you don't appear to have realized that I completely agreed with your facts.
I merely pointed out that about two year old sloganeering is both unoriginal and unsupported by evidence since. They did not ask for permanent exclusivity for example, which would be in line with your interpretation. Instead, deals were time limited and specifically aimed at breaking the de facto monopoly of steam on gaming that exists today. Monopoly so strong that even people who like me agree that Go
EGS - Not even for a bribe (Score:1)
Carpy, anti-competitive, underhanded and anti-consumer practices should not be rewarded. Ever.
F Randy
F EGS
F the braindead farkwits keeping the travesty going