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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A member of the community has a kind of open-source Christmas game jam going from now until Jan 2nd. I'm working on a little game for it, and hopefully many others are too.
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.