Rémi Verschelde

@akien.bsky.social

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@godotengine.org project maintainer & @w4games.com co-founder (he/him). Free and #opensource software advocate. #indiedev and #Linux gaming. Frenchman in Copenhagen. Also on: @akien@mastodon.gamedev.place.

Screenshot of The Incident at Galley House
Screenshot of itch.io's page tracking game released by game engine. Godot had 1,314 releases in the last week, against 779 for Unity.
Diegetic main menu from Commander Keen 4, an old school computer monitor as a wrist device.
Stats from SteamDB showing the number of game releases per year for Unity, Unreal, Godot, and GameMaker, with bar charts showing the relative parts with no user reviews, less than 10 reviews, 50, 100, 500 and more than 500.
SteamDB data showing the count of Unity games released on Steam each month/year since Steam exists. 9401 new games in 2025. 4386 in 2026 as of June 25, 2026.
Godot's current policy on AI-assisted contributions reads like this: "The use of AI to contribute to Godot is discouraged, and contributions made entirely by AI are prohibited. We acknowledge that AI can be useful, but we are convinced that human effort results in better and more relevant contributions. If you do use AI, we expect that you put in effort to proofread and improve anything it generates, and that you disclose what you used AI for. As maintainers spend significant time reviewing your code, please make sure that the code you submit is well-tested and functional. Please be respectful of their time and only submit something you have put thought and effort into."
SteamDB list of Godot-made games ranked by peak concurrent users. Slay the Spire 2 is the highest ranked with 430,000 concurrent users as of March 6, 2026. The second position is Brotato with 39,000 concurrent users.
"Something Went Wrong" page on Steam.
Data series from Global Game Jam showing the usage of the most commonly used game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker, Construct) from 2018 to 2026.
SteamDB data showing the number of Godot games released each year, with an upwards trend. 300-400 games in 2022-2023, 800 in 2024, 1200 in 2025.
Graph showing the year-over-year growth of the 3 most used game engines in Global Game Jam, with historical data spanning from 2018 to 2026. It shows Godot as the only engine consistently growing with a year-over-year ratio around 25%, with a peak at almost 110% in 2024. Unreal also had some years of growth close to 25%, but 2025 and 2026 saw a negative trend downwards. Unity has a trend going slowly downwards, especially with -13% in 2024 and -9% in 2026.
Graph showing the relative share of game engines used in Global Game Jam from 2018 to 2026. It mainly shows a relative decrease of the Unity share from nearly 80% to 57%, while Godot grew from 1.4% to over 25%. There's a notable inflexion point in the year-on-year growth from Godot in 2024.
Screenshot of running the `--version` command on the TR-49 .exe, which shows that it's made with Godot 4.5.stable.mono.official.
Screenshot of the Steam page of Kingdoms of the Dump, showing that its planned release is "in approximately less than an hour".
Banner for the GodotFest conference, taking place in Munich, Germany on 11 & 12 November 2025.
Screenshot of the Steam store page for Sparrow Warfare showing it recommended by the "Made with Godot - 2" curator.
Screenshot of a Steam curator listing games made with Godot, showing recent releases.
Game over screen from the second map of Bloodthief, where I earned the God Killer medal with 18.1s, ranking (currently) 42 in the leaderboard.
Game over screen of Bloodthief's first level, where I just earned the God Killer medal with a time of 33.8 s, currently ranking 35 in the leaderboard (not for long, the game was just released).
Graph from SteamDB showing the concurrent player count on City Game Studio in the past 48 hours, going from 10-20 average to a first peak of 349 and a second peak of 644, making it the all-time peak CCU for the game.
Concurrent players count on City Game Studio as reported by SteamDB for the past 48h, going from an average of 10-20 to the start of a peak currently above 150.
Table of the top 20 highest rated games in Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2 with information on what engine they used. The Top 5 all used Godot, while 16 out of the top 10 used Godot (4 used Unity).
List of the current top 10 most wishlisted games on Steam, with Slay the Spire 2 in 9th position.
List of games known to use Godot ranked by their wishlists count according to Steam (via SteamDB).
Theme of the 82nd Godot Wild Jam: UNSEEN. Wildcards: - IMMERSIVE: Have your UI be part of the world - BOOM!!!1: There must be at least one explosion in the game - REPORT CARD: Grade something the player does
Screenshot of the GitHub "pulse" statistics for the Godot Engine repository, showing the activity the past 30 days: 608 pull requests merged, 274 PRs opened, 408 issues closed, 263 issues open.
Video of a Godot 2D platformer game with a stick figure character, evolving in a hand drawn level drawn by a child. The level is an A4 sheet of paper, laid out on a wooden table.
Screenshot of level completion stats on level 1 of Bloodthief Demo "Varu Underbelly", where I got a new Personal Best with a God Killer Medal (beat the dev's time).
Graph from OSS Insights showing the number of PRs created per month on the godotengine/godot GitHub repository. The graph shows recent months in 2024-2025 averaging between 450 and 600 PRs per month.
Game over screen of Fáyer's game Pancitomerge, with a score of 1072.
Screenshot of the open source Wikipedia-based virtual museum "The Museum of All Things", with a sign tagged with "Akien was ici", as part of testing resource remapping for possible localization support in this app.
Wall fresco of Diego Maradona as an angel carrying a golden cup.
Painting of Diego Maradona with a saint's aureola, with the caption "Sorbillo per Maradona".
Excerpt from the Renderdoc Vulkan layer management code, where they have to explicitly block broken Vulkan layers from a lot of applications: RTSS, OBS, OverWolf, AgaueEye, gamepp, Wegame, Bandicam, fpsmon...
Screenshot of the open source game Jetpaca being edited in Godot 1.0, the first official release of the open source game engine in 2014.
Screenshot of the Godot editor playing the Third-Person Shooter demo embedded in the editor.
Graph from the 2024 Godot community poll, showing that 76.4% of users use version control, 15.4% don't, and 8.1% don't know what it is (so technically 23.5% don't use version control).
XKCD strip about Git, where a character explains in tech lingo what Git is about. A second character asks how to use it, and the first character replies "No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save you work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy."
Screenshot of the Caves of Qud library page on a Steam Deck, showing that I last played in 2019 for 37.5 hours.
Screenshot of Godot's merge queue project for 4.4, showing that 255 PRs have been merged for 4.4-dev6 (i.e. the capacity of one byte).
Screenshot of the Godot editor with an Arabic script language, using the current Noto Naskh Arabic font.
Screenshot showing that paragraphs making wild hypothesis in the Check Point report are analyzed to be 100% AI generated.
Screen capture from The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton, where Jack Skellington just discovered Christmas Town and was mesmerized by the snow and positive Christmassy vibe. Jack is laying in the snow, sticking his head up.
Three French graphic novels in their Danish edition: - The Rabbi's Cat (Rabbinerens kat) by Joann Sfar - Les Culottées (Skamløs) by Pénélope Bagieu - The Arab of the Future (Fremtidens araber) by Riad Sattouf
- No Tweets are visible on the profile, but Tweet count shows there are still Tweets left. In most cases those are Retweets from Tweets from accounts that got deactivated or banned. Sometimes the Tweets reappear once the accounts come back, sometimes they don't. There is nothing you can do. - Likes aren't removed. Only the last few hundred can be be removed. Even by hand. There is nothing you can do other than deleting your whole account. Or reliking Tweets to unlike them afterwards which will probably get your account locked for spamming.
Screenshot showing that all my 35258 tweets/retweets have been deleted.
Screenshot of the progress deleting my 35258 tweets from Twitter, using the tweetXer script from https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer
Screenshot of the description of the "Old Mine" asset by Quixel on the Epic FAB Marketplace. It says: The Old Mine pack contains: 61 Assets .U Project file File Formats Multi-Format Support: All assets are available in FBX + JPG format types, ensuring seamless integration with any game engine or DCC tool, including: Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, Blender, Maya, and 3DS Max. Scene file Compatible with Unreal Engine 5.4 Textures and Materials Texture Resolutions: 1K, 2K, 4K, 8K Texture Formats: JPG
Photo of Rémi Verschelde, ca. this decade. Man in his thirties, medium-length brown hair, thick eyebrows, short beard, wearing rectangular glasses.
Tintin meme with Haddock saying "What a week, huh?" and Tintin replying "Captain, it's Monday".
Pixel art rendition of a personal holiday photo, by artist Tumeo (tumeo.space).