Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release

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.

Good

[Chrisq]

I've been waiting for it...

Re:Good

[Bob_Who]

Ha! Samuel Beckett would be proud.

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[Em Adespoton]

Ha! Samuel Beckett would be proud.

I figured that with a name like Godot Engine, it was vaporware from the beginning. This kind of ruins Beckett's entire premise!

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[RevWaldo]

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

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[Anonymous Coward]

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

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[synaptik]

Mods, you suck! The PP is a reference to "Waiting for Godot." Get some culture before you down-mod.

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[Hussman32]

Most of the funny quips were modded up already...

[OT] Re:Good

[synaptik]

IIRC, this was the earliest Waiting-For-Godot quip in these comments. So, 'redundant' was not applicable at that time.

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[frooddude]

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

blargh

Game Developed

[groovy_daemon]

Don't forget Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy is being made with it. Which just succeeded in it's Kickstarter campaign based on the Latin comic published by Dark Horse. http://okamstudio.com/portfolio-items/dog/

Impressive

[BlackPignouf]

It's very impressive.
The Godot website reaches 0.01fps right now.

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[BarbaraHudson]

I had no problem downloading it quuickly yesterday after I saw the story in the firehose. Maybe it doesn't take much to slashdot them?

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[darkain]

Error 503: Service Unavailable

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[sconeu]

That's deliberate. You have to wait for it.

I've been looking for such a solution

[war4peace]

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.

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[Geoffrey.landis]

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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[war4peace]

Ha, I see what you did there.
Seriously though, no, it's just that the project is not yet in the stage where I would actively look for a game engine.

In Soviet America, Godot is waiting for you

[Geoffrey.landis]

Seriously though, no, it's just that the project is not yet in the stage where I would actively look for a game engine.

Ah. So Godot has to wait for you.

JMonkeyEngine?

[abies]

I'm partially involved with jmonkeyengine, so it is hardly an ubiased opinion, but how do we quantify 'most advanced' and 'visual tools comparable with commercial offerings?'
In particular, where Godot has noticeable difference compared to what JMonkeyEngine offers?
http://jmonkeyengine.org/featu... [jmonkeyengine.org]
Two games given as showcase example - they look ok for indie-level games (regardless of companies behind them, they are indie-quality games at best), but so does for example JME based http://www.desura.com/games/pi... [desura.com]. And any of these is _light years_ away from AAA titles done on commercial engines - because problem is not only with engine, problem is with having millions of dollars to spend on asset creation.

I'm all for healthy competition in open source engines. But touting statements like 'most advanced' and 'only' is not really fair.

Re:JMonkeyEngine?

[goruka]

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.

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Waiting for the industry study...

[JoeyRox]

that says proprietary, closed-source games are 23% more fun to play and have 45% lower IT maintenance costs.

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[tepples]

What well-known dynamic scripting language should it have embedded instead? Lua's standard library assumes use of "tables" (equivalent to a hash/dict) as 1-based null-terminated arrays, which causes programmers who come from other languages (most of which use 0-based bounds-checked arrays) to end up creating programs with unintended incorrect behavior.

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[wiredlogic]

What well-known dynamic scripting language should it have embedded instead?

You've got Tcl, purpose built for embedding, Jim, lightweight clone of Tcl, Python, Perl, and Ruby. All mature scripting languages that would do the job with 0-based arrays.

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[goruka]

Except the above mentioned have several problems:
-They are dog slow because every indexing is a lookup in a hash table.
-They don't have proper multi-thread support (with ability to share context between threads), this is essential for videogames. They either not support it or have a global lock.
-They do not support vector types natively (Vector2,Vector3,Matrix2,Matrix3,Matrix4,etc) which are also essential to video games (and binding as usretype is really slow)
-Have terrible means of GC, which are also

Script sharing with non-Godot programs

[tepples]

Is it so important to use an existing language, even at the cost of poorer performance and worse integration?

Yes, so a game using Godot can share game logic code written in the scripting language with a game for a different platform not using Godot. Otherwise your scripters have to either write in another language that compiles to GDScript or violate the "don't repeat yourself" principle [wikipedia.org] by writing everything in both languages and taking extra effort to keep their behavior in manual sync.

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[goruka]

I understand, but this is not a common case scenario, and more like a rare situation.
It is also not a problem exclusive to GDScript, and might still happen with C#, C++ and other languages.
So, given in far most cases the situation you describe does not apply, using a custom language in this case seems more like "using the best tool for the job " principle.

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[tepples]

So, given in far most cases the situation you describe does not apply

The features page [godotengine.org] states that Godot is available for desktop PC operating systems (Windows, OS X, and X11/Linux), one web browser (Chrome through PNaCl), major smartphone operating systems (Android and iOS), and select Sony consoles (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita). Support for HTML5 and Windows Phone is allegedly coming soon. It sounds like you're claiming that "far most cases" will want to exclude Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U versions from the outset because those will have

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[wiredlogic]

Python has array.array built in not to mention the extensive native vector support in NumPy. It's trivial to add high-performance features to existing scripting languages.

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[aaaaaaargh!]

Why don't they 1-index then? Are they that stupid?

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[tepples]

Why don't they 1-index then?

Because they forget to, and because all the algorithms and data structures that they learned elsewhere, such as heap priority queues, have to have their logic changed between 0- and 1-indexing and between arrays that do and do not allow nil to be an element. For example, any SQL database will produce NULL values in the result of a LEFT JOIN statement, but in the iterator protocol used by Lua's for statement [lua.org], nil is the terminator.

Are they that stupid?

Some people would interpret this question as carrying a hidden assumption that

Torque MIT Licensed and More "advanced"

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe everyone missed this but GarageGames open-sourced under MIT both the Torque3D engine and Torque2D. Both of these engines have active communities. Tons of support. And maybe most important, real published games. It's nice that Godot is at least "stable."

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[goruka]

I had the "pleasure" to port Torque3D to PSP, so I know it inside out. Torque is (sorry for the strong words) a pile of shit, it has always been a pile of shit and it will always be it.
It was opensourced because it failed as commercial offering, developers did not want to use it back then and that fact will not change even if you offer them money.

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[Actually, I do RTFA]

I once talked to the CTO of GarageGames (back when they were not open-sourced). He said "Torque was 400k lines of really good code, with another 100k thrown in for free". We ran.

This whole article

[gabereiser]

is a lie. It's not the most advanced open source engine (torque engine, gameplay3d, ogre3d, many others). It's not the only game engine with visual tools (jmonkeyengine, torque, unity, leadwerks). Stop trolling trying to get traffic.

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[goruka]

Torque is shit, Gameplay3d is basic at most, Ogre3d is a renderer not an engine.
Unity and Leadwerks are not opensource.

Urho3D

[jones_supa]

Has anyone used the Finnish Urho3D [github.io] engine? It's odd that it isn't more well known, as the feature list [github.io] certainly packs a punch.

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