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follower·Apr 23, 2021

Someone else already answered with the link to the official Godot information page[0] which can be summarized as: * Godot dev team isn't a commercial entity with console development license agreements. * Even if they were, the console support couldn't be truly Open Source due to licensing & NDA agreements with the console manufacturers. * There are third parties who have ported Godot to consoles who may work with you port your own Godot game. * You could always port it yourself. Another aspect that they don't mention is that for the Godot dev team themselves to support consoles they'd essentially have to create an entire parallel development infrastructure (repo, issue tracking, CI etc etc) per console to maintain the NDA confidentially requirements. In regard to Rust, they were another example I mentioned up thread about this very situat

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ion: """ The situation is also the same for other FLOSS projects, e.g. the Rust language, where the issues tracking game console support basically say "if you have the ability to develop for (current) game consoles, you also know we can't talk about it here where others aren't under manufacturer NDA": https://github.com/rust-gamedev/wg/issues/90 https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem/issues/18 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jtqgn4/q_feasibility_... """ So, the "something" that is "preventing opensource lowbudget projects from shipping to console" is manufacturer license agreements/NDAs that are the antithesis of & a barrier to cross-company Open Source development. :) [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/platform/conso...

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follower·Apr 22, 2021

> console development. Curious if you had a direct experience with the console side of things with your game? Also, can I provide you an opportunity to promote your game by asking you to tell us more about the game you shipped? :) (The rest of this isn't directed at you but more trying to clarify the Godot console situation for anyone else interested.) I've noticed there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding (particularly by "less commercially experienced" game devs) in relation to Godot's "console support" or apparent lack thereof. Godot do now at least have a page[1] to directly address the issue and clarify the situation which can be mostly summed up with: "... there is no engine that is legally allowed to distribute console export templates without requiring the user to prove that they are a licensed console developer." and: "Console

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ports of Godot are offered by third-party companies (which have ported Godot on their own)." I seem to recall there was one FLOSS game engine that got a grant or something to incorporate support for some XBox initiative (that wasn't "full devkit support" level) but for every other major console there's no engine that has FLOSS code supporting it--and if it did then no one could probably tell anyone about it because of NDAs. :D As a side note[0]: "Additionally, there is some unofficial third-party work being done on building for some consoles. However, none of this is included in the default build scripts or export templates at this time." The situation is also the same for other FLOSS projects, e.g. the Rust language, where the issues tracking game console support basically say "if you have the ability to develop for (current) game consoles, you also know we can't talk about it here where others aren't under manufacturer NDA": https://github.com/rust-gamedev/wg/issues/90 https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem/issues/18 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jtqgn4/q_feasibility_... Hope your game is selling well. :) [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/faq.html#which-... [1] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...

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sbt567·Feb 7, 2021Submission

Embark Rust Ecosystem

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