Is Godot a good engine to teach in CS classes (K12) ?

• godot-3-demos

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  Discontinued Dozens of free and open source demos for the Godot game engine, version 3. Head to the link below for newer demos for Godot 4+

  

I highly recommend getting started with GDQuest and Heart Beast for videos and resources: https://github.com/GDQuest/godot-demos https://www.youtube.com/c/Gdquest/playlists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48fn2SlrW0KoLT4n5egNdX-W9a

• processing

  456 6,448 0.0 Java

  Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

  

Have you looked at Processing? It is a java based programming environment specifically made for educational purposes, it has many resources including countless video tutorials by Daniel Shiffman on his YouTube channel the coding train.

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• MonoGame

  95 10,862 8.9 C#

  One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

  

You mentioned Crafty, but it looks like that hasn't been updated since 2018 so it's understandable that it's missing features. Monogame is a modern, open-source offshoot of the XNA framework. It's going to be much more barebones than Godot, or any established engine, but it will definitely provide opportunity to engage with core CS and gamedev concepts. Coupled with something like Game Programming Patterns you could have some decent course material to keep your students engaged. Note that Monogame works much better with 2D than 3D, but that's also probably a better fit for most students.

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