I'm happy to see that Godot community and development is increasing so fast. I just completed a 2D simple mobile game[1] with Godot and I had a greet time making it even trough I ran into a lot of issues.
Most of my issues were related to bugs with 2D nodes such as Area2D. The engine as a quite a few non-breaking bugs related to differents aspects. It's still very usable and very high quality for an open source software. I'm looking for v4.0 to increase the stability.
I will probably write an article about my user experience with Godot compared to Unity or Game maker and others.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loustak.in...
What made you settle on Godot instead of any other engines? I'm looking into making a mobile game and I'm looking at Defold, Solar2D (previously Corona, heh), and Phaser.js all as potential rivals.
Defold and Solar2D both use Lua instead of a custom scripting language (GDScript) which appeals to me. Defold seems very polished, and includes infrastructure for ads and for Facebook games, which is ripe for monetising, whereas Solar2D is much more barebones.
Phaser.js seems like way more of a hobbyist tool than either of them, but I'm tempted just so I learn js.
Did you consider any of these before choosing Godot? Curious to know if I should go with Godo despite using its own scripting language which isn't useful outside of Godot.
I wouldn't get to hung up on GDScript. It works well and is well integrated into Godot. If you already have experience programming it will be easy to pick up. Where Godot shines is the ability to create something without a lot of code. This is a good thing because IMO the real time suck is creating assets.
I suppose I'm coming at it from a different angle - I'm expecting my game to flop, but want to learn something from it. I'd rather that something learnt to include a "real" language rather than a script designed for one program. Of course, that's not to say I'll learn nothing while developing for Godot, but it is a factor for me.
You might still be able to learn algorithms and methods using Godot, but to me the primary reason to use a framework like Godot is to finish a game. You learn the framework to use the framework - the player isn't going to know or care either way.