It seems like 2 of the 4 founders are also members ins the Godot board of directors and if I recall W4 has a strong voice in the Godot development team.
Maybe I'm just to pessimistic these days. (That speaks for Godot being a good project people care about).
I missed that. I'm glad if Godot remains independent. VC funded OSS projects do not have a track record of remaining open-source.
I did not expect W4 to get that much funding, but at it's current trajectory I could imagine it becoming a kind of publisher of Godot games. This is completely without any evidence, just my gut feeling.
I could also see them provide the kind of SaaS backend tools one needs to publish a game ( Network backend, payments, content delivery )
They just like the guy.
He’s now raised $23m publicly for the entity. Improbable said they raised $500m, I don’t know what reality was, but I’m sure it was similar.
It’s a lot of money for sure, I wonder what risky stuff they will spend it on. We have a lot of options for game development and we also had a lot of options for multiplayer engineering.
If you were a brilliant engineer, would you sign up for “port games to consoles?” I don’t know. So I’m sure there’s something really visionary behind the fundraising that hasn’t been said publicly.