Unity Creator Brackeys Is Back With Godot Tutorials

If you've ever tried searching for how to do something in Unity, chances are you were directed to a Brackeys' YouTube tutorial. For those unaware, new to Unity, or those who missed this completely, since the Brackeys team said goodbye several years ago, it's a legendary Unity teacher and creator who has made over 400 tutorials, hosted some of the largest game jams, attended industry events, and helped many game developers get started on their journey.

Brackeys has many devoted followers and has inspired many people to make their own tutorials. Their name is heavily associated with Unity and educational materials similar to Blender's Blender Guru. In the last video posted back in 2020, Brackeys' founder Asbjørn Thirslund explains that he had been making videos for almost 8 years, had been using Unity since he was 12, and making Unity tutorials since he was 15, and therefore wanted to move on and try new things.

Here are just some of the most popular examples you've probably stumbled across before:

In his first video in three years titled The Future of Game Development, Asbjørn announced that he's been taking a break from video games in general, explaining that the current state of the industry made him quite uninspired and took away some of the joy he used to feel when making games. Luckily enough, the recent rise in popularity of independent and open-source industry-level software like Blender has caught his attention and motivated him to dive back into game development. 

The largest example of this kind of democratic and advanced software to Asbjørn is Godot, which is a free and fully open-source game engine a lot of developers recently turned to. Godot has been around for a while, but last March it received a major update, completely rewriting the engine and becoming a real game-changer. Naturally, right now Godot is still experiencing a new wave of users, and the developers are quick to react to the users' needs and maintain the competitiveness of the product: just last week Godot received a maintenance release, fixing a lot of urgent issues the developers have been facing.

Now, obviously, Brackeys doesn't claim one engine is better than another or encourages developers to immediately stop using third-party software like Unity but rather pushes to think about which one suits your needs better. In the end, a game engine is a tool and you need to choose the right one for your project.

This time, it's only Asbjørn and his partner Sofia back as Brackeys, planning to release a series of Godot videos for beginners, starting with a mega tutorial on making your first game with this engine that should be out next week.

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