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Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-godot-two-oh dept.

goruka writes "Godot, the most advanced open source (MIT licensed) game engine, which was open-sourced back in February, has reached 1.0 (stable). It sports an impressive number of features, and it's the only game engine with visual tools (code editor, scripting, debugger, 3D engine, 2D engine, physics, multi-platform deploy, etc) on a scale comparable to commercial offerings. As a plus, the user interface runs natively on Linux. Godot has amassed a healthy user community (through forums, Facebook and IRC) since it went public, and was used to publish commercial games in the Latin American and European markets such as Ultimo Carnaval with publisher Square Enix, and The Mystery Team by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

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  1. Good by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting for it...

    1. Re:Good by RevWaldo · · Score: 4, Funny

      The latest build will not be available this evening but surely tomorrow.

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    2. Re:Good by frooddude · · Score: 4, Funny

      In fact, all my browser is saying right now in the status line is ... "Waiting for www.godotengine.com..."

      blargh

    3. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've never actually seen this game engine, but I am sure it is excellent.

  2. Re:I've been looking for such a solution by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 2, Funny

    My project would fit really well with this engine, I think. I've been looking for a multiplatform game engine and Godot looks like the Holy Grail.
    I'll have to verify how does it fare as a MMO GUI which depends almost completely on connecting to a bigass DB.

    So, you're saying that this is what you've been waiting for?

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  3. Re:JMonkeyEngine? by goruka · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's fair. Godot is not written in Java.
    Seriously though, I have used JMonkeyEngine and it is sort of hit and miss. Godot architecture, features, platform deploy, animation tools, etc. are a lot more mature, please give it a chance when you have time.