Alex Gaillard

@aldeebob.bsky.social

Full time web dev. Part time Godot dev. All time nerd. 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 🗽

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

Going to try to start posting on my tinkering with #Godot and the #GameDev things I'm futzing around with. This past week I spent some time learning about the Chebyshev formula, AStarGrid and isometric tilemaps by recreating the Diablo 1 movement logic. 😈🔥

There hasn't been a single game in my life where I've thought, "Man I wish could ask this NPC absolutely anything I want and they'd respond." Even if I had, it'd be novel for about 2 minutes. I'll take 50 handcrafted lines from an actual writer than 1 million from a glorified chat bot any day.