• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    This is huge! This definitely lowers the access barrier for smaller time game developers, now they can get approved by Nintendo themselves without having to put in a significant upfront investment with a porting company.

    The W4 games option is still good to have for people that want to ensure there is as much feature parity as possible to the full Godot Suite!

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    9 months ago

    i’ve seen some people online saying Nintendo is very selective, and opaque about choosing who is allowed to buy their $450 devkit…
    but still, godot is pretty cool

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        9 months ago

        Haha yeah, I was gonna say, if you’ve even been on the eshop once, “selective” is not the word you’d use to describe them.

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    9 months ago

    Cool. But nobody is going to start another 3 year project on the switch anymore. Maybe with the switch 2 in mine if it’s compatible with switch games. But cool anyway!

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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Here’s one less reason for game developers to skip over using the free and open source Godot Engine, as it now has a free port available to bring games over to the Nintendo Switch.

    You may remember recently that W4 Games, a company set-up by some of the Godot team, announced their own console port availability that has a cost attached to it which at a basic minimum would be $800 a year for a single console.

    Many felt the price was too much but, since it’s all open source, anyone else could come up with a porting solution and now they have — for the Nintendo Switch at least.

    · Complimentary access: Available at no cost to all authorised Nintendo Switch developers.

    · Expandability: Having access to the source code, developers with C++ knowledge have the opportunity to add and integrate additional functionalities as needed.

    We recommend partnering with porting companies for medium or large-sized projects.


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