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Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising. Certainly helps that Godot ended up launching their new funding platform on the same day Unity announced their hated Runtime Fee system.

Initially when the Godot developers announced their new funding platform they only had around €25K per month from 438 members. This has now exploded up to €50,323 per month from 1,458 members. A much better and more sustainable amount considering they're building an entire game engine.

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[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I have big hopes for an open source future.

[–] pgetsos@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Just started lessons myself for it. Looks easy enough for basic gesture like the one I want to do!

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is great news! Can anyone explain me how the engine Managed to get 25k BEFORE the the unity Desaster? It seems like a really high number without mayor Investors

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't that strange for a number of open source projects. I don't know Godot's specifics, but lots of folks are willing to toss a few bucks via patreon or other sources. They keep a list of donors who don't mind being named in the source code, and it includes a few companies that make monthly donations. I'm sure they get a number of grants like this one from Epic.

There's a number of mastodon servers where people pay donate monthly to them.

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Man People can be so awesome. All the Bad news makes me forget that way to often

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has corporate investors/sponsors at the gold level one of them being gambling service and the rest being mostly mobile devs. The pateron hasn't really gone up since last year.