Godot store and commercial plugins

rraallvv

Hey community!

I was wondering whether there is such thing as an online store for stuff related to Godot and what are your thoughts on allowing commercial plugins.

I'm asking because with GDNative it's only a matter of time before we see commercial plugins available for Godot, so it's better to have already some infrastructure compatible with those things.

Maybe it could accept only cryptocurrencies to avoiding fees.

Also it could ask for a percentage on each transaction, for infrastructure maintenance and such.

Please let know what you think.

Cheers!

Calinou

I was wondering whether there is such thing as an online store for stuff related to Godot

I don't know of any yet, however, facilities may be set up in the future for third-party asset stores (such as making them accessible from the editor at the user's discretion).

I'm asking because with GDNative it's only a matter of time before we see commercial plugins available for Godot, so it's better to have already some infrastructure compatible with those things.

The official asset library has no plans of providing commercial assets, because of legal and ethical issues around them (Godot's funds are managed by the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is a nonprofit organization).

rraallvv

@Calinou said: I don't know of any yet, however, facilities may be set up in the future for third-party asset stores (such as making them accessible from the editor at the user's discretion).

I see... that would require some API to handle login and authorization too.

@Calinou said: The official asset library has no plans of providing commercial assets, because of legal and ethical issues around them (Godot's funds are managed by the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is a nonprofit organization).

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look to their policies.

MagicLord

@rraallvv said: Hey community!

I was wondering whether there is such thing as an online store for stuff related to Godot and what are your thoughts on allowing commercial plugins.

I'm asking because with GDNative it's only a matter of time before we see commercial plugins available for Godot, so it's better to have already some infrastructure compatible with those things.

Maybe it could accept only cryptocurrencies to avoiding fees.

Also it could ask for a percentage on each transaction, for infrastructure maintenance and such.

Please let know what you think.

Cheers!

Do like many artists do and sell your product on Gumroad.

Megalomaniak

or itch.io

rraallvv

In case that this thread attracts some attention, I'd be interested in a list of asset stores that support payments in cryptocurrency.

rraallvv

Hey community, it's been a while since I posted something here.

Anyway... long story short, while searching for a cryptocurrency that could be used for games monetization, I stumbled upon Nimiq.

What sets Nimiq apart from other cryptocurrencies? It allows a web game to connect to the blockchain to receive/send transactions directly from the web browser without any third party app or extension. So, yes Nimiq is what I was looking for, because there are no payment processor fees and no middleman.

Godot games exported to HTML5 can embed the Javascript library, and make calls from GDScrip

Native games can use a RPC client library to connect to a RPC server and process payments. Godot already supports C# and there is a library for that programming language currently in the review process.

There are PRs also for Swift, Python, and Ruby in review.

BTW, if anyone has experience with any of those programming languages feel free to review them and make any suggestions ?

Also, feel free to ask me anything about integrating the Nimiq blockchain in your Godot games ?

Full disclosure: For those libraries currently under review, I'm the author of three of those implementations.