Godot Engine

• More important than the engine itself is the community around the engine. Because when you get stuck somewhere, those are the ones who will help lift you up or will abandon you. The Godot Community is extremely helpful responsive, and noob friendly!
• Unlike Unity3D with Godot you've got everything in one place. Your code editor, your 2D/3D editor and pretty much everything that has to do with the game.
• It's cross-platform. The editor itself runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. Your exported game can run on all those plus Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS.
• The assets pipeline is straight forward. Just drag and drop them into the editor and you're set!
• GDScript is a python-like scripting language and it is super easy! with amazing documentation. If you're experienced with any other programming language you can pick it up in less than 3 hours.
• You can have a scene within another scene, this way you don't step on each others' toes when working in a team! This Scene oriented design is weird at first but it won't take you long before you find out that this approach is so genius that it'll make everything else you know sound out-dated.
• I can go non stop about all the good stuff I love about it. just download it and give it a shot. the whole thing is like 40MB or something :D

[Edited by adamzahran, October 06]

I understand that individual devs have personal biases, we are only human. But, When we are out and about, or even virtually interacting with others, we try not to let those biases influence our interactions too much. IMO a tool like Godot should be apolitical, allowing users to create their art without any preexisting social stigmas (something that many people, especially those in marginalized groups ALREADY struggle with). The absolute wrong move is somehow allowing a single "Community Manager" to throw a childish tantrum and shotgun-ban hundreds of people who had only mildly critiqued the stance of said CM, and worse... mass ban people who literally had noting to do with the project, community, or comments in question. Oddly, the same CM appears to completely disregard community standards on hate speech and post VERY inappropriate things in the (un?)official Discord. But I digress... The 2nd worse move to make in such a scenario, is refusing to apologize for the gross overreaction and then doubling down on it. They've even been caught encouraging their members to actively harass devs working on forks of the project. (I've seen the screenshots, they aren't hard to find. They're pretty bad...)

TL:DR - Godot was a decent project, and is fairly decently coded. The tool works as advertised for small and/or solo creators looking to get into the game dev space. But, the "community" have become toxic very quickly. And, much like an abusive ex-lover, now harass and gaslight those who want to distance themselves from it...

PS: If anyone from the Godot community or dev team, past of present, reads this. I hope we can reconcile these differences some day. We only wanted to make cool games with you. For everyone else, do what you've gotta do.

God bless.