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   Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 02:30:48 JST Doctor M. Popular

   Following a social media post in support of LGBTQ+ game developers, Godot is now getting review-bombed on Steam. After 7 years of glowing reviews, this game engine has received nearly 1,000 negative reviews in the past week. #godotengine #GameDev #GameDevelopment

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 02:30:47 JST powersoffour

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     @docpop this is infuriating

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:22:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @docpop I agree that this is terrible but it makes me wonder why a game engine is reviewable on Steam in the first place.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:37:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @docpop Oh, that's interesting! Thanks.

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     Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:37:54 JST Doctor M. Popular

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan most folks download it directly from https://godotengine.org/ but putting it on Steam provides a nice distribution alternative along with some added chat and messageboards that some people might like. The big advantage of using Steam is auto-updating.

     I have a few art and non-gaming apps connected through Steam just so I can get those auto-updates.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:50:03 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @docpop None of these people probably even know what an engine is.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 08:47:43 JST Børge

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     • PhDog 🇮🇪

     @docpop @dogfox It's just how curse words are censored on Steam. Not sure if Steam does it or if it's just the culture for how people write curse words there, but I've seen it a lot

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     PhDog 🇮🇪 (dogfox@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 08:47:44 JST PhDog 🇮🇪

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     Everything woke turns to love?

     @docpop

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     Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 08:47:44 JST Doctor M. Popular

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     • PhDog 🇮🇪

     @dogfox that's how I read it too, but then I saw it was a negative review. Confusing that they used hearts there.

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     Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 21:56:50 JST Doctor M. Popular

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     Some assholes are even leaving negative reviews on great games simply because they were built with a "woke" game engine. Fuck these bullies. https://mastodon.social/@AlexandreGilotte@mastodon.gamedev.place/113249738133699607

     BTW, Gobs and Gods is on sale and looks fantastic. It only has two negative reviews (which both complain about the game engine being "woke", not the game itself) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506900/Gobs_and_Gods/

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     Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 21:56:50 JST Doctor M. Popular

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     A game developer shared a new project on X a few weeks ago and said she built it with Unreal Engine, to which some dude replied, "Woke studios always use pre-built engines to make games because they can't build their own engines."

     It was an INCREDIBLY stupid reply, which quickly became a meme in the gaming community.

     Godot then posted "Apparently game engines are woke now?" (an objectively solid post, TBH) and gamers claimed the post was "too political". That's the post this is all about.

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