godot-game-template VS GDevelop

Basically I explained everything in this issue: https://github.com/crystal-bit/godot-game-template/issues/80

I don't actually know what this does, but it looks really well done (https://github.com/crystal-bit/godot-game-template) (general game template with some scene managers)

If you go with Godot, you can use a template like crystal-bit/godot-game-template to automate pushing a build to github pages. Then you can share a link for students to play.

FYI, there is also abarichello/godot-ci which I think supports 3 and 4 with and without C#. I use it via crystal-bit/godot-game-template and it exports web and native builds, hosts web builds on GitHub pages, and pushes builds to itchio.

Check out crystal-bit/godot-game-template for a github template for godot games that build for those platforms with Github Actions. I haven't actually used any of them but the html5 one yet, but really nice that it was so easy to setup.

I often wonder about this too - is it better to switch scenes or have a very basic "main" scene that's basically just a persistent container for more substantive scenes which are instantiated and freed as needed. Haven't tried it yet but I did stumble across this github repo which demonstrates one approach: https://github.com/crystal-bit/godot-game-template

The game has been made using the Godot Game Template, check it out if you want automatic CI builds + extra utils for your game!

5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months

https://gdevelop.io/ <- free, very easy

It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.

Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects

And

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...

If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.

[0] Beginner friendly 2D library:

[1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/

[3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/

[4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/

I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/

It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab...

After they switched to a monthly/annual subscription fee with the release of construct 3, I pretty much threw in the towel and switched over to Gdevelop.

https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop

Open source, completely free, and I can run it as a native application on my computer versus a weird web app. The idea that my game is basically tied to a SaaS is just not OK for me.

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