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The newly open-sourced game engine Godot (which we covered more here) received its first major release today! In the middle of the winter game-jam too, even though the release candidates have been out for a week or so.
I can certainly see this shining a nice light on Linux gaming and game development, as it features a fully fledged Linux editor! What I like is that it doesn't use any native "window toolkits", but this is of course at the cost of looks.
See the full announcement here.
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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 with no hassle. The editor, language and APIs are feature rich, yet simple to learn, allowing you to become productive in a matter of hours.
Considering that it is open-source it could easily overtake Unity as a fully features game creation kit. It enables you to create 2D and 3D games with scripting, animation, user interface creation and physics all in one package.
It also allows you to do a one-click deploy to a lot of different platforms.
If you're using it for serious game development, be sure to let us know! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Segata Sanshiro 16 Dec 2014
Sweet. I'm really looking forward to Fog Mendonca as well, I'm expecting great things from OKAM in the future.
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adolson 16 Dec 2014
It's come a long way since the first build I have (Jan 3rd). Great things in store for 1.1 as well (awesomely smart code-completion, function syntax tooltips, 2D shaders, some drag-n-drop support, new theme which was delayed for some reason, and more).
A member of the community has a kind of [open-source Christmas game jam](http://www.godotengine.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=18) going from now until Jan 2nd. I'm working on a little game for it, and hopefully many others are too.
A member of the community has a kind of [open-source Christmas game jam](http://www.godotengine.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=18) going from now until Jan 2nd. I'm working on a little game for it, and hopefully many others are too.
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wolfyrion 16 Dec 2014
Hmm... I was thinking to start playing a little bit during the xmas vacations with these gaming engines Leadwerks or Godot but I dont have a clue about programming so Which one you think is easier to learn?
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Wolfyrion, if you don't know programming you can try Stencyl Works. Between Godot and Leadwerks I would prefer godot, it's free and openSource... unless you want big 3D projects (BUT I haven's tried those two...). Going to give gotdot a try now.
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EDIT:That strange... my comment got duplicated
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ElectricPrism 17 Dec 2014
Is anyone using this yet? Is it like Game Maker in any way / shape / form. I would love a good Game prototyping app.
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StianTheDark 17 Dec 2014
I use this and plan on creating and open-source FPS eventually.
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adolson 18 Dec 2014
Is anyone using this yet? Is it like Game Maker in any way / shape / form. I would love a good Game prototyping app.
It's more flexible than that. And open-source (MIT license, you can do virtually anything you want with it) and free... No reason to not try it out.
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