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Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives (twitter.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rockerface@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] rush@lemm.ee 266 points 11 months ago

Common Re-Logic W

Seriously though, whilst the budget they can give to Godot and FNA is small compared to what other, bigger devs/publishers could give, I find their commitment remarkable and very much in-line with their goal of empowering developers and gamers alike

We need more publishers doing things like this

[-] akatsukilevi@kbin.social 114 points 11 months ago

Considering FNA and Godot, $100K is gonna do wonders to both projects, specially with the additional $1K
They might even better afford to have developers working full-time at the engines, or deal with stuff like infrastructure, licensing, hosting and other costs

[-] rush@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

True! Considering Godot and FNA's current size this is indeed going to catapult them to a different league, which I guess is what Re-Logic was setting out to do :P

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 16 points 11 months ago

It won’t change Godot.

Epic donated $250,000 in 2020, Kefir donated $120,000 in 2021. Godot Devs started W4 games and raised $8.5m of which their goal is to support Godots growth.

$100,000 is nice and will allow them to continue but it’s not “league changing” money or anything for them.

[-] rush@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

You‘re forgetting that this doesn‘t only come with money, but also free press, which is sometimes worth more as it would expose more people to Godot‘s existence, any of which may potentially donate :P