Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web platforms. It is a cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine and game development IDE. You can port your game to run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSx/iOS, BSD, Android, BlackBerry 10, HTML5, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Nintendo 3DS.
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Visual editor, full of mature tools. Uncluttered UI, with context-sensitive editors. Amazing scene system, supporting instancing and inheritance. Friendly content creation interfaces for artists, level designers, animators, … Visual shader editing for 2D and 3D. Persistent live editing (changes are not lost after stopping the game). Live editing on mobile devices!
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• Positive comment • over 4 years ago • 10 users agree • 1 reply
More important than the engine itself is the community around the engine. Because when you get stuck somewhere, those are the ones who will help lift you up or will abandon you. The Godot Community is extremely helpful responsive, and noob friendly!
Unlike Unity3D with Godot you've got everything in one place. Your code editor, your 2D/3D editor and pretty much everything that has to do with the game.
It's cross-platform. The editor itself runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. Your exported game can run on all those plus Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS.
The assets pipeline is straight forward. Just drag and drop them into the editor and you're set!
GDScript is a python-like scripting language and it is super easy! with amazing documentation. If you're experienced with any other programming language you can pick it up in less than 3 hours.
You can have a scene within another scene, this way you don't step on each others' toes when working in a team! This Scene oriented design is weird at first but it won't take you long before you find out that this approach is so genius that it'll make everything else you know sound out-dated.
I can go non stop about all the good stuff I love about it. just download it and give it a shot. the whole thing is like 40MB or something :D
[Edited by adamzahran, October 06]
adamzahran
To be honest I intentionally left the html5 support out because I know it's not that good. As for BB I only wrote it cause it says so on their website but I never personally tried to publish anything on BB.
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axpanos
Comment • almost 4 years ago • 9 users agree • 0 replies
It is open source and a very alive and friendly community. You can create amazing games with it that run as good as games made with unity. But it is much simpler. If you take the simplicity of GameMaker and the tools of unity...You'll end up with this great piece of software !
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• Positive comment • about 6 years ago • 7 users agree and 2 don't • 0 replies
It’s not even a competition. Because it’s the ONLY complete, free, open-source engine that runs on Linux, Android, HTML5, and less cool platforms. And it’s very easy to get into. Including the scripting. And even if you want to mod the actual engine, it’s easy. I added a my first physics function right in the engine code in 15 minutes. which is only possible if it’s open-source.
Plus the actual developers are actually available for you to talk to. They react to bug reports, improve the Wiki, reply on IRC…
But actually I liked the internal elegance the best. Less concepts to learn. Everything is a Scene or a Resource. Everything is a node. Everything can be animated and automated and extended. In the same way. It’s how software should be designed. As a developer I really like the architecture.
And fingers crossed, we’ll get post-Cryengine- and -UE4-like graphics this summer! And then it’s really not a contest anymore!
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• Positive comment • over 4 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
Not only it's completely free and open source but it's also completely multi platform and can export to many many platforms. It's also easy to understand, easy to develop and easy to extend!
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spark017
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• Positive comment • over 4 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
Godot is the only game engine I currently use. But I've tried tons of them, and I spent years looking for the right game engine for my projects before I found it. I truly think Godot is the best open source game engine - especially for 2D games.
Godot Engine was added to AlternativeTo by kos-mos on Mar 6, 2014 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2021. Godot Engine is sometimes referred to as Godot.
[Edited by adamzahran, October 06]
To be honest I intentionally left the html5 support out because I know it's not that good. As for BB I only wrote it cause it says so on their website but I never personally tried to publish anything on BB.
Reply written over 4 years ago
It is open source and a very alive and friendly community.
You can create amazing games with it that run as good as games made with unity.
But it is much simpler.
If you take the simplicity of GameMaker and the tools of unity...You'll end up with this great piece of software !
It’s not even a competition. Because it’s the ONLY complete, free, open-source engine that runs on Linux, Android, HTML5, and less cool platforms. And it’s very easy to get into. Including the scripting. And even if you want to mod the actual engine, it’s easy. I added a my first physics function right in the engine code in 15 minutes. which is only possible if it’s open-source.
Plus the actual developers are actually available for you to talk to. They react to bug reports, improve the Wiki, reply on IRC…
But actually I liked the internal elegance the best. Less concepts to learn. Everything is a Scene or a Resource. Everything is a node. Everything can be animated and automated and extended. In the same way. It’s how software should be designed. As a developer I really like the architecture.
And fingers crossed, we’ll get post-Cryengine- and -UE4-like graphics this summer!
And then it’s really not a contest anymore!
Not only it's completely free and open source but it's also completely multi platform and can export to many many platforms. It's also easy to understand, easy to develop and easy to extend!
Godot is the only game engine I currently use. But I've tried tons of them, and I spent years looking for the right game engine for my projects before I found it. I truly think Godot is the best open source game engine - especially for 2D games.