Facebook Giving an Undisclosed Amount of Money to Godot

Godot Engine is receiving a new grant from Facebook Meta Reality Labs. Remi reveals how Godot aquires new grants from companies to fund Godot. Valve's Steam Deck will revolutionize Linux gaming.

0:00 - Godot Engine receiving new grant from Meta Reailty Labs

2:48 - How Godot gets grants

4:39 - Use coupon code "KAIJU" to receive 10% off your first order

5:08 - Steam Deck's Effect on Linux Gaming

7:00 - Godot Addon Jam 1

7:19 - SG Physics 2D

7:55 - ECSG Plugin

8:02 - Datalogue

8:08 - Godot Trail System

8:22 - GDpick

8:30 - Steam API Plugin

8:40 - Advanced Character Creation System

8:59 - Godot Stereo 3D

9:16 - Vylan

9:23 - Mira: A Bird's Flight

9:31 - Sad Worm

9:45 - Spiders Everywhere

10:02 - Pixel Gangsters

10:18 - Dimension Deflation

10:29 - Tilemap to Tileset

10:36 - Striving for Light

10:49 - Mirrorama

11:04 - Real Quest

11:21 - Santa's Village Builder

11:31 - World Rank Paper Toss

11:43 - Martial Law

11:59 - Boxday

12:10 - Wrought Flesh

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[stylemistake]

I find it strange that the amount is undisclosed, considering Godot is a non-profit entity with a public record.

[platinumdiamond]

hmm neat. Hate Facebook Love Godot but it's nice that Godot is out there now

[IchitheLover]

They need as many devs as possible creating content so consumers can justify purchasing the hardware, it's as simple as that. No reason to assume it means Godot's XR development will be exclusive to Oculus headsets, but those headsets dominate the market because they're the most affordable and portable, so they can't realistically ignore them, either.

[luisz]

A deal with the devil, we’ll let’s see how it goes.

[claudiusraphael]

Refreshing vid, thx! - Came here because of the title, instantly felt a furry ball of fear growing on my tongue, depicted the metacalypse for Godot vividly and started working on a virtual manifest to unite the world and run the barricades .. until you reminded us all of the principles of Godot and how they actually get to their grants. Oof, exhausting first 3 minutes ... lol

[rishiniranjan]

I'm waiting eagerly for stable Godot 4.o release

[amarnathg]

Games in showcase section looks really good. Kudos to the game devs and thank you for showing them.

[dadandme]

I think the main purpose of the Meta/Facebook grant to Godot is directly linked with the future metaverse business model. Unreal or Unity are not free and requires royalties for Meta itself and Meta third-party creators. Having a non proprietary or non open-source game engine will not work for the whole metaverse economy. The good point is the grant will fuel up Godot dev and the Godot community will become bigger with time.

[sinayagubi]

I find it cool that Epic gave them a grant even though they are the competition.

[ekanastone]

This is great news, more corps giving money to godot means faster and/or more complete development. It's through deep pocketed industry giants (and the back of community donations and merchantdise) is how blender became as big as it is. We want the industry to embrace Godot, so that Godot can be an even more viable game engine that rivals its closed source compettiton the same way Blender does for its contemporaries.

[maniksharma]

My new year resolutions is to make somthing this year that you can feature in the video...😐

[XRWorkout]

Pretty sure Godot will become an important tool for XR development on Meta hardware down the line. The biggest issue at the moment is actually not the support for the hardware but the missing plugina for Oculus Platform Integration, LIV, YUR, etc.
That's a bit of a pain point for our development

[yukkitimmy]

10:29 Hey Thats me! Thanks a lot dude, appreciate it!

[JS-rppq]

I'm more than happy for free/opensource projects taking money from corporations, at least this allows citizens to actually get value from that money. Its way better than if a company like Facebook had just bought Godot

[_gamma.]

Thumbnail seems clickbaity and fearmongery, but I’m looking forward to that XR editor. Godot’s VR support is great from what I’ve used!
Those projects you showed are cool too, lots of helpful stuff

[TheWebgecko]

It would be pretty great to be able to dev while in vr

[doug]

is up to the project leaders to decide if godot will follow the great path of linux or the disaster of firefox as an open source project.

[csolisr]

Before I watch this, I predict it's intended to pay for a better integration of Godot with the Oculus/Meta VR headsets, which makes a lot of sense considering they did the same with Blender. It's basically solving a common problem and that's the nice thing about open-source.

[AshnSilvercorp]

I really want the steam deck users to join me in the phrase
"I run Arch BTW."

If anything any FOSS Linux distro is fine with me.

[zendraw]

id definetly switch to linux if it becomes mainstream