Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle
Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle
Dancing Duelists is built on a new engine
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/11796632
TL;DR the developers of slay the spire created a fun free card game within 3 weeks to explore and learn the Godot game engine. You can play it here: https://megacrit.itch.io/dancing-duelists
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On a related note, does anyone know what Megacrit is doing nowadays, do they have a new project going on?
They've been working on a new game ever since Spire stopped getting regular updates. The project was in Unity though and this little dancing game was a three-week "jam" game so that Mega Crit could try out the Godot engine and see if it was a viable alternative to Unity for their next real project. Turns out they do like Godot and have ported their in-progress game from Unity to Godot and can now continue development!
They released this jam project like two days ago. I highly doubt they've ported their in-progress game to a new engine in that short amount of time, that's a significant effort that could take months.
Yes and no. I've seen people roughly port smaller games over in a single weekend. I'd probably take a guess of about 1-2 weeks, not multiple months. Godot is surprisingly similar. Obviously it's not all gonna be best practice, but since it also supports c#, you can more or less just copy and paste the code and slowly sift through compiler errors, replacing old Unity stuff with new Godot stuff. It's a pain, but not quite as much as you'd expect
Take a read for yourself: Brian Bucklew porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot
Ah sorry, didn't mean to be fully past-tense there. One of the programmers swapped off the jam project after two of the three weeks to begin the work porting their next game to Godot, because 2/3 of the jam time was enough for Mega Crit to go "ok yeah we like Godot"