Proposal: Awesome Splash Screens by default to improve Godot's perception.

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Proposal: Awesome Splash Screens by default to improve Godot's perception.

gnat

Saw this on Reddit earlier: https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/pw8r75/made_a_custom_godot_splash_screen_for_my_game/

Unreal Engine and ID have used this "awesome splash screen" strategy to continually nurture an perception of creative badassery for decades.

I propose that the godot engine should adopt the idea of having a selection of nice logos built-in to brand projects with.

It's arguably the cheapest, most effective PR Godot can possibly have!

cybereality

I kind of like that Godot does not have a splash screen by default, and you could put whatever you want. Also, it could backfire. Like when Unity forced the splash screen for free users, it ended up creating a stigma of bad "asset flip" games because the people that used the free version were mostly less experienced developers, so the gamers thought that Unity was a crappy engine even though it wasn't. But people are free to create their own splash screens and share them, which I think is fine.

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @gnat!

While I'm not against the idea of discussing potential changes here on the forums, most of the main Godot developers are not active on the forums. I would highly suggest making any proposals on the Godot proposal GitHub repository so then it can be seen by the more of the main developers :smile:

On the topic itself, I agree with @cybereality, as I think it not being forced to have a splash screen by default is one of the strengths of Godot, especially given how it backfired for Unity developers. That said, having a checkbox or something to add an official, Unreal-Engine-like Godot-splash screen (that is off by default) might be an interesting addition, though it might be better as a plugin since then users who don't want/need it don't have any extra code or assets.