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Godot | GDevelop | |
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2742 | 146 | |
81,956 | 5,663 | |
2.4% | - | |
10.0 | 9.8 | |
7 days ago | 6 days ago | |
C++ | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Godot
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Name it Better (ideas for making more informative names)
Here's an example file tree from a part of the Godot game engine source code.
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Godot [1] is a very nice game engine. There's a game on Itch.io that teaches the scripting language it uses [2], and a ton of great tutorials on YouTube for beginners and experts alike.
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Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine
There is some ongoing PR, so it might come at some point :
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aop...
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Show HN: Mutable.ai – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
The Bitcoin and Mastadon links don't seem to be working! (wiki not found)
Would love to see this for Godot (https://github.com/godotengine/godot). Maybe Maplibre too (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native)!
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My thought on different engines
Godot Engine is a free and open-source game engine. The story started as an in-house engine of an Argentinian studio in 2007, and since 2014, it's been a community-driven project with a lot of contributors.
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🔥14 Excellent Open-source Projects for Developers😎
6. Godot - Your Gateway to Game Development 🎮
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I want to learn some low level typed language, should I learn Go or Rust?
Fair enough! I’d personally recommend Godot, because it’s FOSS, has a really nice way of doing things (in my opinion), and a language that’s similar enough to Go that when I was first learning Go I’d frequently use terms from GDScript! It’s the kind of think you can learn in a few hours. Give it a shot if you’re just getting into dev!
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Can we make games using react native? Im new to this and I just made some to do, and video player apps. So I'm just curious so I can make iOS and playstore apps.
I believe most game developers would rather focus on making the game though, instead of figuring out how to make things work in React Native. In those cases, the best option is to just stick with game engines like Godot.
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Godot Engine - Open Source Alternative to Unity3D
GDevelop
- Not only Unity...
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming
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
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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/
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Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?
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...
- Herramientas y lenguajes para aprender a hacer videojuegos?
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Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
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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Godot or GameMaker studio 2
Another engine that you can consider is GDevelop https://gdevelop.io
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Easy game making and coding for tech learners
GDevelop is a free, no-code game engine that uses drag-and-drop functionality and menus to build games. It supports Javascript to impliment more complex code. To find out more go to – How to get started making a video game: GDevelop 5 (part one)
- How would a non-AAA company deliver multiplayer, or even online stuff like leaderboards?
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Can i create a simple 2D game in a month?
I'd also maybe recommend GDevelop as an alterative. Which uses Block-based "behavior" programming instead of text coding. It also has a bank of ready to go assets (mostly from https://www.kenney.nl/ ). You'll probably be up and running faster with your limited backgrounds. If actual text coding is required GDevelop uses JavaScript as the backend for making custom behaviors .
What are some alternatives?
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
o3de - Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Cocos2d - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
Panda3D - Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
ursina - A game engine powered by python and panda3d.
Spring RTS game engine - A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
flame - A Flutter based game engine.
Torque3D - MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames
FlaxEngine - Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.