>[!DANGER] Avoid! > All [[Godot]] forks I've found are scammy, scummy, and are poorly maintained or fully abandoned. # List ## Mirror Classic [[The Mirror Game Engine]] - Mirror Classic - a fork of Godot originally intended for a [[Blockchain]] "metaverse" game before the crypto and metaverse collapse ## Redot - Redot - a hostile fork of Godot from 2024 with explicit "libertarian", anti-woke, and right-wing political positions; mostly just merges in mainline Godot code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698094 - Founded by: - Andrew Martin of the Citizen Coder Podcast - William - Nicholai - Red Otter - Current maintainers: - `decryptedchaos` - `Spartan322` (George L. Albany) - `mcdubhghlas` "a fork of the Godot Engine, due to various reasons that I don't care to go into" - Past contributors: - Everlasting Media (David Bixler) As far as I can tell this was purely a publicity stunt and none of the original "founders" stuck with it beyond a couple months, and were not Godot devs before. The handful of people remaining are keeping it on life support. ## Blazium - Blazium - a hostile fork of Redot (lol) - "All ideologies, political viewpoints, and self-expression is allowed in the community so long as you remain civil." - Founded by: - `Starkium` (Aaron Benjamin) of Life Art Studios - `Bioblaze` (Randolph Aarseth II) - Current maintainers: - `Bioblaze` - `sshiiden` (Nicholas Santos Shiden) `Starkium` was actually a dev working on [[Unreal Engine]], forked Redot to Blazium and them immediately bailed a couple months later to work on his own engine called "Desperado" which there is no evidence of any activity on. Supposedly `Starkium` and `Bioblaze` were working on Redot but got into a disagreement with the other devs and split off. Seems like it was mainly intended to provide integrations to some kind of paid hosted service but has never materialized and mostly just merges in PRs as quickly as possible without a structured proposal system. `Bioblaze` continued to publicly attack Redot and other devs after the forks, so much so that even the anti-woke Redot devs called him toxic.