Godot + Google + The Forge == Better Vulkan!

The Godot foundation have just announced a new 3some... them, Google and The Forge are teaming up to improve the Godot game engine. Specifically The Forge and Google engineers will be working with Godot to improve the Vulkan mobile renderer (and no doubt other core rendering improvements along the way).

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[etherealregions]

Oh, I get it. Every time a company gets mad at Unity or Unreal, they go and help Godot. 😅

[FoXcodeZ]

The Forge is a 3D renderer (their software) and company which helps other companies make game engines (they work on a game engines for Starfield, CoD, Forza, and Spiderman). They are experts in improving performance, so that's a huge thing for Godot.

[cwcoc]

I really like the idea of such professional people working on godot. Only hope, it doesn't make itself any dependent from big companys like google.

[tux_the_astronaut]

Hope they do more than just the mobile render the forward plus renderer could also use improvements

[HamguyBacon]

I like how everyone collectively said, Fuck Unity
its weird seeing companies look at long term profits instead of short term gains by funding and developing for godot.

[Chevifier]

Since Godot is Opensource anyone at Forge could chime in some love on the PC Forward+ renderer if they feel up to it.
Id love to see some lighting overhaul and other optimization if I was able I wouldve probably tried already 😅 And on that note im gonna read up on using Vulkan.

[IPlayKindred]

godots future is looking more and more bright, guess blender isnt gonna be the only open source sweetheart now.

[kiyasuihito]

This is super cool. Never heard of the Forge but now am definitely going to check them out. 🎉

[SunMawR]

now really is the best time to learn godot

[takarahayashi]

as long as google's relationship stays there, I'll be ok with this.

[cwcoc]

Bro. 4 videos in a little more than 24 hours. On fire.

[TheRealFunar]

Vulkan is the future, The Forge is a great company, but Google getting involved could have negative consequences.

[adhdGameDev]

Great newa for mobile game devs.. however what does this mean for pc game devs? Will we get some of that The Forge love or nah?

[paulosullivan]

I find it kind of odd that google are supporting godot when they are so anti-indie game devs on mobile. They have a lot of rules that your average indie dev could never do like getting 20 people to test your game for weeks before it will be published on googles app store.

[hanro]

Google maintains Android. My guess would be they shared insight of the low level functions and APIs within Android to help godot optimize their compiler and runtime for Android.

In essence google may not be there to speed up rendering, but they could help speed up computation. Allowing simulators to run faster.

[_gamma.]

Vulkan support on mobile? 👀 mayhaps quest will get some benefits

[MasterBroNetwork]

My only concern here is Google's involvement, Hopefully they don't (edited) go for a power grab and try to heavily influence Godot's decisions.

[drewo.]

I just hope all Google is doing is helping fund Godot and offer their expertise in the development and the Godot and Forge team can keep the free and open source nature of the engine alive, with no invasive Google junk, and the only involvement is, again, just expertise!

[manon-gfx]

Lol The Forged must have changed a lot since I worked there. It used to be mostly interns and juniors being put under a ton of pressure until they quit or burn out. It was very rare someone lasted for more then 2 years there.

[fixieroy]

So will the future improvements only help the mobile platforms or the desktop too?