I have had great fun making some simple games in GDevelop!<p>If you know a bit about programming and have an idea for a silly multimedia project, I highly recommend giving it a go.<p>The visual interface building tool makes it really easy to slap together a GUI or a game map, and the low-code programming interface makes adding simple logic (and sound effects!) pretty quick too.<p>It did take me a little while to wrap my head around the programming interface, though. There are many things that I like about it, now that I understand it, but I think there’s also some room for improvement.[0]<p>Working on my little experiments, I felt like I was often relying on some knowledge of other game programming tools to help me guess what functions to look for in GDevelop, and to build an intuition for how the system was working.<p>So I think GDevelop does a great job of making it easy to code something up quickly. But I don’t think that I would recommend it as a first step into programming, since I think that building up some familiarity with “how programming works” in a more conventional language will make stepping into GDevelop much easier.<p>If you’re interested interested in making simple games and want something one step more conventional, I highly recommend MakeCode Arcade. It’s a more limited tool than GDevelop—it’s just for simple arcade-style games—but it’s an absolute joy to use.<p>[0]: I love that GDevelop lets me browse through the API without leaving the app, for example… but somehow I still seem to spend a lot of time looking things up on the wiki. I would love for them to find a way to build even more of that documentation into the application itself!
License check. [green check]<p><a href="https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop/blob/master/license.txt">https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop/blob/master/license.txt</a><p>* The Core library, the game engine, the new IDE, and all extensions (respectively <i>Core</i>, <i>GDJS</i>, <i>new IDE</i> and <i>Extensions</i> folders) are under the *MIT license*.
* The name, GDevelop, and its logo are the exclusive property of Florian Rival.<p>See the license.txt in each folders for the full licenses.
GDevelop original developer/founder here!<p>Happy to see it shared :) Happy to answer any questions but as a quick story, I started this on my free time many years ago (before "no-code" was a buzzword).
We're seeing great traction since the past year and I think we found something that works really well as a game engine that is actually approachable and fun for a lot of non developers... or even experienced developers! :)<p>In any case, we would be happy to get some help on GitHub (tons of fun tech challenges for contributors - GDevelop is both a game engine and an IDE and has a compiler for the "no-code" part), we're reworking the whole wiki/documentation (because some part <i>really</i> need some love), and we've built tons of tutorials and examples recently.<p>And of course, feel free to star the repo! As we're not 100% "developer oriented", a lot of GDevelop users from the community don't even know what GitHub is. So some visibility boost is always appreciated ;)
`brew install gdevelop` gives a SHA256 mismatch error. Yes, there are many possible and valid reasons why a binary might be re-uploaded (thus resulting in a different SHA hash), but still, not a good first impression.
I started using GDevelop in 2020 because it was a no-code, open-source game engine. I have used it to make hundreds of "experiments", a few dozen "games", and even a handful of published projects. :)<p>If anyone has questions about GDevelop, feel free to ask here (or in the GDevelop Discord).
Nice to see this app here.
I wonder why they are not more known.
Their application is well made, I followed some tutorials, it's pretty easy-to-use. I think it's open source (and therefore free).