New Godot Asset Store is online!

[WebFreak001]

On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 at 10:26:45 UTC, Filip wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> We are announcing the grand opening of the Godot Marketplace!
>
> If you are a game developer or develop 3d applications, you may 
> have heard of Godot. Godot is a game engine like Unity or 
> Unreal - but it is open source.
> So far it lacked a commercial Asset Store to provide a platform 
> for complex or time consuming assets.
>
> This changes today! Some of the revenue will be donated to the 
> Godot project to support them and the development of the engine.
> To celebrate the opening we are offering you 5 purchases from 
> the vendor “VisCircle” for free!
> Coupon Code: GDMPCELEBRATION (valid until 16th of March 2020)
>
> https://godotmarketplace.com/

I don't like that it's using the name "Godot" everywhere without 
being affiliated with it at all, even if it states on the 
homepage that it isn't affiliated if you read enough. Just 
because Godot is an open source project without a trademark on it 
doesn't really justify using it for anything like this imo. They 
are also just hoping for the good will of people to use the name 
fairly.

There is also already an existing official godot asset library 
which promotes open source more too and has editor integration: 
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset

The website is also completely broken without javascript, but at 
least it doesn't serve required third party origin scripts. It's 
also rehosting the Godot asset library, but doesn't allow 
downloads until you create an account on the website which is 
really dubious...

As for the assets: I generally have the opinion that selling 
assets:
- for intended usage in games as-is without modification,
- for beginners not knowing anything,
- reselling open stuff with little modification, etc.
is really shitty for multiple reasons and should be banned from 
existing. For example there are assets like the 3D extruded 
FontAwesome icons which feel like a rip-off. I'm not really the 
target audience for such a website and wouldn't usually recommend 
purchasing assets like that from any sites but I would especially 
not recommend this site.

When more people publish content on it it might become better but 
for now it doesn't look so good. It mentions 10% of revenue goes 
to Godot which is great, but I'm wondering how much more revenue 
goes to the store company?