Added some combat and sprites to the dungeon crawler godot game. Making some progress! This game will probably be a mashup of old-school 3D dungeon crawling + card-based combat like Slay the Spire. Having a lot of fun with it so far.

Game developer Thomas Grové from Studio Interrupt recreated the same horror game in both Unity and Godot to compare the engines side by side, and the results were surprisingly one-sided. The project, a retro-style horror game called “Eyes Never Wake,” was built in both engines under the same conditions. According to Grové, Godot performed better in most areas affecting everyday development. >The engine started much faster, scripts compiled dramatically quicker, exports finished in seconds instead of minutes, and the install size was only a tiny fraction of Unity’s. >Godot launched in about 13 seconds versus Unity’s 80 seconds, and exporting took around 2 seconds in Godot compared to nearly 15 minutes in Unity. >The developer also found that Godot delivered stronger lighting and atmosphere, showing how much the engine’s visuals have improved.

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My timeline is flooded with GPT-6 Astra generations. We saw something similar earlier this year when Google shipped Project Genie on Jan 30 and the engine names got taken apart, with $U down more than 20% in a single day and $RBLX and $TTWO going with it. The fear was that if a model can generate a playable world, nobody needs an engine. The difference now is that the models are working with the engines. OpenAI published a Playco case study on Sept 3 where an agentic IDE plugs directly into Unity and Godot, and they got three playable prototypes off one grey box with 50% fewer manual fixes than the previous model. I don't think AI replaces game engines, at least not yet, because generating a world and running one are separate problems > state that persists across sessions > physics that behave the same way twice > bugs you can actually reproduce > players staying in sync across devices So while these names keep getting lumped in with the software stocks getting commoditized, I think there could be an opportunity here.