Godot Game Engine – Tutorial Series

This engine is very interesting. I had seen it sometime back but seeing it on Steam is what made me really look at it. You can run the editor on Windows, Mac or Linux. The whole thing is BSD Licensed (or MIT) editor, engine and all. It is C++ code and features their own custom scripting language that is somewhat Python-like and influenced no doubt by other scripting languages. Also did I mention it publishes to Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Linux and even HTML5, and you can also grab the binaries off their side (20 MB ~) or source from GitHub. Neat project. Still havent had the joy of making anything great with it yet. Oh and it does either 2D or 3D.

Hey! I&#x27;m using that to write a game right now!<p>It&#x27;s just a hobby game, I doubt I&#x27;ll do anything other than open-source it, but it&#x27;s been fun. I don&#x27;t have any experience with other engines, but this one has been great to learn on. The GDScript isn&#x27;t too hard to figure out, but their documentation can be a bit lacking at times. It feels <i>really</i> polished for an OS project.<p>I haven&#x27;t used any other engines so I don&#x27;t have any experience, but I would still recommend this for a beginner.

I haven&#x27;t gotten into Godot, but it looks interesting.<p>At the very least, their blog is interesting. And their annual April Fools posts (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;godot-aims-mainstream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;godot-aims-mainstream</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;godot-now-really-free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;godot-now-really-free</a>) are fantastic.

Happy to see this is alive and kicking since it became OS.<p>I&#x27;ve never had the occasion to deep dive into it, so I wonder, from 10000 feet how does it differentiates from Unity?

It&#x27;s a cool engine. I hope they will integrate AR capabilities some day (there&#x27;s an open issue about this on GH). Maybe they could integrate with ARToolkit once v6 is released. Since all I do with game engines is AR my best option so far is Unity (sometimes with ARToolkit, sometimes with Vuforia)...which is good but not great. I&#x27;d actually love to switch over to an all open stack.<p>Hopefully the C# support in v3 will be good to lure some Unity devs over :)

Oh no. I thought it is a game engine for Golang:-(

Why is it that game engines have to whole custom IDE&#x27;s with their own programming language, text editor and all other kinds of GUI tools.<p>Why can it not just be a library that you call functions from?

I looked at all the major engines a while back. Of all the smaller engines (non-Unity&#x2F;UE4) Godot had the greatest range of tutorials that just worked.<p>However using it I kept running into issues in the editor. Lockups and weird niggly things that eventually put me off using it.<p>I&#x27;ll have another look when 3.x lands though.

Has anyone used godot on mobile (android, ios)?<p>How complicated is the build performance and how is performance?

This looks cool but when I start it I get an 1024x600 which makes it impossible for me to even browse my filesystem properly.