Looks like Battle for Wesnoth is being ported to Godot Engine

Very cool!

I think that is a very smart move!

According to forum post and the source on Github, the Godot engine is planned for 2.0, so it seems all version until then will keep on using the legacy engine.

As a fan of Wesnoth, I'm happy to hear this news. Wesnoth is the first decent open source game that I've played, so even though I haven't play it in a while, it still has a spot in my heart. By moving to new engine, I hope my childhood game will keep on growing, so maybe someday my child will got to experience the same game as me.

Wesnoth also makes me feel humbled as a programmer. To think something like this :


with help of community (and enough time), has grown into this :


I doubt David White from 2003 could imagine his weekend project will keep played and developed 16 years later. It's really amazing to see what a dedicated open source community can do.

BTW, it seems 2019 is a blast for game developer (especially in Linux community) with Godot reaching 3.1 and Blender reaching 2.8.

BTW, it seems 2019 is a blast for game developer (especially in Linux community) with Godot reaching 3.1 and Blender reaching 2.8.

Fully agree! Godot, Blender, Krita, Tiled, and Gimp are all advancing quickly and growing into really professional tools. I myself couldn't be happier to be using them and be part of it all.

Fully agree! Godot, Blender, Krita, Tiled, and Gimp are all advancing quickly and growing into really professional tools. I myself couldn't be happier to be using them and be part of it all.

Don't forget about Inkscape :| ! It's great and IMHO it's better than Illustrator for some part (except the lack of CMYK, of course).

While we are taking about Inkscape, you guys might want to check 2dgameartguru again. It's active again after long hiatus, with a brand new website.

For you guys who never visit it before, it's one of rare website which teach how to draw 2D game art using Inkscape. What makes this site quite special (for me) are :

• It's one of the oldest Inkscape tutorial site (the one that I know, at least). Its first Inkscape tutorial is released back in 2011, so it has been 8 years since then.


• While there are many Inkscape tutorial out there, most of them is released in video format, which is quite heavy for us with slow internet connection. Meanwhile, the tutorial on his site is available mostly in image and text format. This make it easy to access, and can be easily printed and distributed to student.


• Despite being mostly text and image, his tutorial is easy enough to follow, even for non artist

Disclaimer: I'm not related with him at all. I just learned many thing about Inkscape from his site.


Last edited by Acrophobic on 18 March 2019 at 2:01 pm UTC

Yes I forgot Inkscape! So many things I use sometimes can be hard to remember all :)

This is pretty cool news. Even though I haven't put a lot of time into Wesnoth yet, I really like it!

This is definitely one of the best linux games out there. I don't remember exactly when I started playing it, but I found a savegame using version 1.3.14 from October 2008 in my archive of old stuff.

I've had some fun with Wesnoth. It does seem like it's plateaued a bit of late years; I wouldn't be surprised if something like moving to a modern engine like Godot will make it easier to improve further.

I SAID IT! ^_^
i said it! i said we need to do it with open source games, and they listened!
ok, they probably didnt read my coment, but that is what we need!

While there are many Inkscape tutorial out there, most of them is released in video format, which is quite heavy for us with slow internet connection. Meanwhile, the tutorial on his site is available mostly in image and text format. This make it easy to access, and can be easily printed and distributed to student.

plus, video tutorials are horrible to back track if you want to see an specific detail again, and you can't control+C from an text in an video.

Hope to hear this will benefit both Godot an Wesnoth as both are worthy open source projects! Wesnoth is one of the open source games that is both high quality and stands on its own within its genre. Its cross platform support, Steam release, and both ease and depth of available mods really help it stand out; being able to download new campaigns with new units, art styles, cinematics and more with a single click is fantastic. However, the game engine itself is getting a bit long in the tooth and that likely prevents or makes extremely difficult certain features.

For instance, many of those I've introduced to Wesnoth have expressed that there is a lot to like, but they were hoping for a combat/gameplay system out of the "Fire Emblem" or "Shining Force" games. That is to say, rather than units simply boffing against each other on the main map, it would zoom in and show a highly detailed and animated rendition of each unit attacking against the other, based on certain parameters. I too would love for this to be possible within Wesnoth, but I am guessing that the engine holds it back. Perhaps as they work towards 2.0 and use Godot, it will be possible to add these sorts of features; if would certainly add plenty of interest to Wesnoth!

I remember when i first played this in college.
It has grown so much ( unlike 0 ad which is still in Alpha after a decade - sorry had to vent)
When online gaming for the first time this was a favorite with a good friend back home.
Then I tried switching over to linux a few times and every time Wesnoth (and Eschalon) was my go to game that was in every repo.