To your first point: okay? Whether or not that's true is moot to this project. The engine is a tool and by nature is apolitical. It's the mods and the higher-ups that are the problem by pushing am agenda into the Godot engine. That's not okay. I don't use my various statuses to grandstand on any ideology and neither should those in charge of the engine.
To your second: I've not committed anything to Godot's or Redot's code bases and it doesn't matter whether or not I've done so. I spent hours on the Godot subreddit helping budding developers with their issues with their projects for a long time, not that that matters, either. Your dig at me on a personal level is truly meaningless and a reflection of your spiteful personality. I feel sorry for you that you need you hurl insults at someone who just gave information.
A "fork" of the master project, with no meaningful changes/re-implementations/refactors/fixes, made explicitly because you don't like the politics of the original developers, makes this project 1,000 times more of a political statement than the original project.
This is not an "in good faith" project. It's a spiteful distraction. Public masturbation disguised as an apolitical-political statement.
You didn’t read the mission statement I posted or check the website for yourself. The fork wasn’t created “because of politics.” Politics were the final straw. Those are separate issues. From my reading and discussions with the Redot community, this fork was made in good faith, and until shown otherwise, I’ll stand by that.
Redot is only a few months old. Meanwhile, W4 Games is steering Godot toward corporate-driven features while a massive backlog of PRs goes unresolved. That’s easy to verify. Redot exists to correct that imbalance.
What matters most is whether the fork improves the ecosystem and addresses problems Godot hasn’t. That’s what I’ll be watching. Understand that I'm not blindly following Redot, either. I'll just as easily use PyGame if it comes down to it.
For context: I’ve been a long-time supporter of Godot, since just before the 3.1 release. It was always at the top of my list because it’s open source and backed by a helpful community. Over time, though, shifts in leadership and moderation changed that. I still love the engine itself, and you can verify that under my old moniker kamikazecopilot on the subreddit, where I often voiced support of the engine and other developers. But I cannot support the direction of those currently in control. Anyone who criticized moderation or raised concerns was silenced or banned outright. That hard stance felt authoritarian, and I refuse to stand behind it.
If you knew anything about software development you would understand why political activism does not mix with it. Instead you're creating a fictional straw man to justify it.
Maybe making a game is something you should stay away from, because your customers will certainly not tolerate such an additude.
You capitalized "severely." I assume this is because you didn't know how to spell severely and couldn't find it in the under powered spell check of this chat box. So you typed it into a Word doc which auto capitalized the first letter thinking it was the beginning of a sentence. Then you copy/pasted the word, capitalization and all, back into this box. Or you think "severely" is a proper noun.
Also "aren't you" turns the sentence into a question, requiring a question mark ( ? ) instead of a period ( . ) at the end.
Sure thing ^_^
But first. Irony. Definition:
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Like when someone screams "tolerance" while their side keeps trying to murder or terrorize everyone who disagrees with them.
Now onto the "tolerant" left:
Multiple assassination attempts on Donald Trump including the Butler Pennsylvania rally shooting July 2024, the Florida golf course assassination attempt September 2024 and the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner assassination attempt on April 25.
The Charlie Kirk assassination in September 2025.
The attempted assassination Breht Kavanaugh in 2022.
The Congressman Steve Scalise shooting and wounding of several civilians at the 2017 congressional baseball practice by a far left Bernie Sanders supporter.
The firebombing of Josh Shapiro's residence.
The orchestration and participation of the 2020 BLM/Antifa terrorist riots that caused over $2 billion in property damage and killed at least 25 people including David Dorn and other civilians while declaring autonomous zones like CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle that saw multiple shootings and deaths.
The years of sustained Antifa terrorist violence in Portland from 2018-2021 involving nightly assaults on journalists, police officers and random civilians with bricks, fireworks and lasers.
The firebombing and vandalization of over 100 pregnancy centers and churches after the Dobbs decision.
The repeated attacks on conservative speakers on college campuses with riots and violence to shut down events
The engagement in widespread doxxing, swatting, death threats and cancel campaigns against anyone, including apolitical game devs who refuse to bend the knee to far left illiberal ideology, and then has the audacity to call it "irony" when we want to be left out of your political purity tests.
