With the Unity pricing debacle having caused many indie developers to take up Godot as their primary engine of choice, it's not at all surprising to discover that 19% of games that were created for the GMTK Game Jam 2023, and nearly 40% of games that were created for the BIGMODE Game Jam 2023, were made using the Godot Engine.
Despite this high level of interest which Godot has received in recent months, some have argued that the Godot Engine toolset still feels a tad incomplete, and that much more resources should be responsibly allocated in order to ensure that it is able to be developed in a manner that will allow it to effectively compete against much more commercially established alternatives on the marketplace.
With this in mind, a dedicated Godot Foundation was established in November 2022. Its goal being to manage all donations that are made to Godot and to ensure that these donations are used to financially support the growth and activities of the open source game engine. As part of this, and knowing that there is a certain level of responsibility which Godot Foundation has towards safeguarding the engine's future, I spoke to Emilio Coppola (Executive Director, Godot Foundation), and was able to ask him as to what...