The Mirror – Godot Powered Commercial Game Engine

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The Mirror – Godot Powered Commercial Game Engine

Tomcat

That's the news:
The Mirror – Godot Powered Commercial Game Engine
Do you think the free Godot has a chance for the future, or will all the useful features be implemented only in the paid version?

TwistedTwigleg

Tomcat Do you think the free Godot has a chance for the future, or will all the useful features be implemented only in the paid version?

I think the free Godot engine will do fine, as this is completely separate from the Godot team and foundation.

Personally I am a bit skeptical that it will take off, but we’ll see. At very least, it is nice Godot is getting more attention.

DaveTheCoder

I think that should have its own topic, since it has nothing to do with Godot 4 beta.

TwistedTwigleg

I moved it to its own topic, since it is a bit separate and will give better visibility if its on its own topic.

DaveTheCoder

I notice that the title of this topic and a tag indicate "Godot 4". I haven't seen any information that says they're specifically using 4.x.

For anyone interested, they have a Reddit where the founder has made recent posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/themirrorspace/

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder I notice that the title of this topic and a tag indicate "Godot 4". I haven't seen any information that says they're specifically using 4.x.

Makes sense. I changed the topic.

The question is probably mostly how much and how they relate to the original Godot. If it's only an analog and alternative to Roblox , then maybe there's no problem.

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder I notice that the title of this topic and a tag indicate "Godot 4". I haven't seen any information that says they're specifically using 4.x.

Here:

They've been building upon Godot 4.0 since early alpha releases

duane

As soon as I saw "web3", I said, "BS". 😛

Sounds like another company that specializes in using buzz-words to extract money from investors.

DaveTheCoder

I've read their web site, and watched some of their videos, and I'm still not sure what this thing is. My guess is that it's not a commercial edition of Godot as I first thought, but rather it's a collaboration networking tool for use by individual or small teams of game developers.

Megalomaniak

DaveTheCoder My guess is that it's not a commercial edition of Godot as I first thought, but rather it's a collaboration networking tool for use by individual or small teams of game developers.

It's their take on the NFT Metaverse 420 BlazeIt^tm thing.

DaveTheCoder

They published a FAQ:
https://www.reddit.com/r/themirrorspace/wiki/faq/

underdog32

Roblox itself doesn't make money and it has 10s of millions of kids buying robux to attach swirly garbage to their character (i'm the parent of 3 of them). What chance does this have?

cybereality

Correct Roblox doesn't make any money either, I guess besides what they dupe from investors.

I think it's an interesting project, and apps like Roblox and Fortnite are really popular, but I don't think it will have much affect on the Godot project.

Tomcat

One of the comparisons is a next-gen Roblox. Does that mean The Mirror focuses on kids?

Not at all. We require that anyone who signs up be a legal adult (18 years old). If we discover that someone on the platform is not a legal adult, we will remove them.

An obscure limitation. It is only clear that it greatly reduces their audience.

aaronfranke

On the topic of how this helps out Godot, one of our goals with The Mirror is to be an open platform. We want to use open standards whenever possible so that content made on or for The Mirror can be used elsewhere. One big example of this is we want to put more data inside of GLTF files, such as physics data, and have it be interoperable between games and game engines. We have contributed this enhancement to Godot https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/69266 and there are many other engine contributions The Mirror has made to Godot (mostly from myself).

On the topic of what features this offers. The Mirror has real-time collaboration for developing content, which most platforms do not offer. For example, there is no way to have a "multiplayer" Godot editor, with multiple people editing a scene at the same time and seeing live changes. You can think of it like Garry's Mod, but built on Godot and using open standards.

Another example of open standards, The Mirror has Ready Player Me integration, which is a website that lets you design a character and they give you a URL to download a .glb file. You can paste this URL into The Mirror and then you're playing as that avatar. The same avatar can be brought into other Godot games if they add support for it.