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[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is there anything I as a non-developer can do about it?

Choose to play games written in Godot instead.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And how do I know which ones those are?

[–] puffy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Barely any commercially successful games are written in Godot right now. But Godot keeps getting better and Unity keeps getting worse, things could look very different in a couple of years.

[–] Angius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to Godot's website and take a look at the showcase of... pixelart platformers and PS1-graphics boomer shooters. Hope you like those two genres!

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I checked out their site and found that Cassette Beasts was made in Godot!

https://godotengine.org/showcase/cassette-beasts/

This is a game I've had my eye on, since after playing Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and then Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it was a further slap in the face just how crappy the Pokemon games continue to get with each new release (it's basically downhill after X and Y). Sure the story was good, but Scarlet/Violet was tough to enjoy with stutter, frame drops, hitching, and making me motion sick (and that's just visuals, gameplay itself in a boring open world with no incentive to explore is also a factor). I've never played a video game that made me motion sick. I needed an alternative and heard about Cassette Beasts being a better game than Pokemon. I played the demo, loved it, and I was waiting for a sale. Now I'm gonna pay full price for this game to support the devs and their work with Godot.