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Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

116 mentions on Hacker News by 100 people: 13 stories, 103 comments · first 2014-02-10 · latest 2026-07-23

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  1. Faolan-Rad and I (fire) are working in that area https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/72883 "LibGodot is a system to allows Godot to be compiled as a library and connected into it using GDExtensions by giving a function pointer to the…
    comment by iFire · 2023-02-08 · in Godot 4 Release Candidate 1
  2. …be some mechanisms/hooks to allow this to work as wanted, but it has to work quite differently. [1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/4437 [2] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/66231
    comment by milliams · 2023-02-08 · in Godot 4 Release Candidate 1
  3. …lots of stuff was renamed but I can't find any good list outside of going into the C++ converter at https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/editor/proj... .
    comment by s-lambert · 2023-01-17 · in Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
  4. I believe it's being developed on the master branch at https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by throwawayben · 2023-01-16 · in Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
  5. …prototyping than C#/C++ in my view. (Performance is also set to improve in Godot 4, apparently: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/70838 ) More on the differences and trade-offs here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_st…
    comment by modernerd · 2023-01-04 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
  6. …open issues on Github[1]) but for smaller demos and art things Godot usually is pretty solid. [1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues
    comment by churnedgodotdev · 2022-11-03 · in Blender Apps
  7. This looks like the PR: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/66178
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2022-10-18 · in Emulating double precision on the GPU to render large worlds
  8. …around with elixir. We should share notes! I also have a copy of libgodot written for elixir. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/compare/master...V-Seka... https://github.com/V-Sekai/godot/tree/elixir Join our discord!
    comment by iFire · 2022-09-16 · in Godot 4 Beta 1
  9. I think this was fixed in 3.4 https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/51796
    comment by CyborgCabbage · 2022-09-14 · in W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
  10. Here is the biggest. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383
    comment by jay_kyburz · 2022-09-14 · in W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
  11. …actually only 5x the number of PRs. That seems insanely productive for an open source effort. [0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pulls
    comment by ThePadawan · 2022-09-13 · in W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
  12. …to iOS/Android might not be coming straight away but I’ll have to play with it to find out! [0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/64089
    comment by JamesBaxter · 2022-08-24 · in Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting
  13. …imagine myself using Visual Scripting, because you can express yourself so much easier in Code. [1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/64089 [2] https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-gd-extensions
    comment by zubspace · 2022-08-24 · in Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting
  14. …it is getting in comparison to something like Godot: - https://github.com/stride3d/stride - https://github.com/godotengine/godot On OpenCollective, Stride has an estimated annual budget of around 12k USD, whereas Godot gets around 15k USD…
    comment by KronisLV · 2022-08-01 · in End of the Machinery Game Engine
  15. …to give up on it due to Godot's lack of funding to fix its more than 6000 open issues on Github: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues Every single time a Godot bug bites me I find that a bunch of other devs reported the issue more…
    comment by churnedgodotdev · 2022-07-28 · in Godot 4.0 development enters feature freeze ahead of the first beta
  16. …in Godot instead of being instantaneous. I reported it and it was solved in the next point version. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/49570
    comment by johnfn · 2022-07-14 · in It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
  17. For the curious, this seems to be the issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383 The thread is a bit messy, but it was eventually fixed in 3.4 it seems. It's a serious engine problem, and I can understand getting…
    comment by jan_Inkepa · 2022-07-01 · in Unity is laying off hundreds of employees
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    Godot 4.0 movie maker mode
    story by a_crowbar · 2022-06-17 · 0 comments
  19. Been MIT at least since their 1.0 release 7+ years ago... https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/1.0-stable
    comment by sjml · 2022-02-03 · in Show HN: Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo
  20. …Godot. 3D is having big improvements coming in 4.0. Worth checking out: https://godotengine.org/ https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by laputan_machine · 2021-12-03 · in Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine
  21. Only in Debug builds. If you rely on it in a release build you will crash. https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/1589 https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/41179 Reduz doesn't want the fix in release builds because…
    comment by jay_kyburz · 2021-09-03 · in Game Engines on Steam: The Definitive Breakdown
  22. …deep into the engine. This is one of the few bugs I logged before finally giving up on the engine. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383#issuecomme... The object pooling system reuses references so that your script can't tell…
    comment by jay_kyburz · 2021-09-02 · in Game Engines on Steam: The Definitive Breakdown
  23. …the Godot Engine bug tracker with notify to @fire, but sad letters here in HN are acceptable too. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues On Godot Engine master work currently.
    comment by iFire · 2021-08-10 · in Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development
  24. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383
    comment by jay_kyburz · 2021-06-25 · in Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
  25. …like it - update it. Why remove the entire thing? That's just a griefing of the documentation. 1: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/6ef0538f182c13e169...
    comment by slezyr · 2021-03-04 · in Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
  26. …factor and then render them as unshaded, which leaves some gnarly artifacts at the corners. [1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/23721
    comment by chairmanwow1 · 2021-02-05 · in Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot
  27. This is a pretty maddening bug that I ran into: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/30215 To summarize, you basically can't use the built-in viewport scaling at all because it breaks mouse input.
    comment by Boxxed · 2020-12-31 · in Defold engine code overview
  28. …that's very tractable to poke around in, so you can easily extend it in other languages. [0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/15265
    comment by aidanhs · 2020-11-28 · in Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0
  29. …of Godot's codebase. It's well written, and easily understood both architecturally, and in-method. https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by crocodiletears · 2020-10-28 · in Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
  30. …With Godot it is possible to design the UI in code--the editor itself uses that approach, e.g.: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/27d12092821df77a61... > you can practically throw your version control system out of the window for…
    comment by follower · 2020-08-04 · in Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
  31. …immediately popped up github issues acknowledging the difficulty making screen readers work: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/29736 There are some applications that mimic all those friendly native behaviors, but it tends to take…
    comment by nitwit005 · 2020-08-04 · in Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
  32. It ray-marches the SDF when integrating them into the probes. You can see that here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/481151be09108a3000...
    comment by Jasper_ · 2020-06-28 · in Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
  33. …and most of its dependencies vendored and statically linked. See the thirdparty folder for a list: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/master/thirdparty The official binaries include everything, but many of the larger bits are…
    comment by cycloptic · 2020-05-30 · in Godot Editor running in a web browser
  34. …won't be fixed until 4.0, so have another look at Godot then. Update: Here are the bugs I logged. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/31758 https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383
    comment by jay_kyburz · 2020-05-29 · in Godot Editor running in a web browser
  35. Seems lambdas are coming in 4.0. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/2684#issuecommen...
    comment by SquareWheel · 2020-05-29 · in Godot Editor running in a web browser
  36. …codes. interesting ones are below: Godot - Probably a lot of people already know about this one https://github.com/godotengine/godot Pyxel - A fantasy game engine similar to Pico8 written in Python, uses SDL https://github.com/kitao/pyxel…
    comment by accidentalrebel · 2020-04-05 · in Ask HN: What are you learning?
  37. …good context/discussion in the PR that implements the game camera override/"hot camera" in 3.2: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/27742
    comment by trynewideas · 2020-01-30 · in Godot 3.2
  38. If you search for "vim", you'll find there's already an issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/17213 - the latest comment is about a year old and says: > The current implementation of the text field looked pretty much straight…
    comment by ttctciyf · 2020-01-29 · in Godot 3.2
  39. Need to try it ASAP, although I see the issue that prevented my kids from using it ( https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/24890 ) is still open - managed accounts present a few challenges, but I hope this has been sorted somehow.
    comment by rcarmo · 2020-01-29 · in Godot 3.2
  40. OpenGL is deprecated on macOS and iOS, because Apple has changed to use Metal: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/19368 That's why Godot is moving to Vulkan, that can also run on Metal: https://godotengine.org/article/retrospective…
    comment by xet7 · 2020-01-19 · in Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices
  41. Most commits are from unpaid contributors: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/commits/master My guess is that a lot of it comes from companies using Godot fixing bugs that affect them, plus hobbyist as well.
    comment by mattigames · 2019-11-03 · in Vulkan Progress Report #5
  42. …URL filtering subsystem that takes down the entire OS when Godot tries to reach its library - see https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/24890 for details)
    comment by rcarmo · 2019-11-03 · in Vulkan Progress Report #5
  43. …the only app that ever triggered that particular kernel panic in over 2 years they’ve had a Mac): https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/24890
    comment by rcarmo · 2019-10-09 · in Clojure 1.11 planning
  44. https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by fogine · 2019-10-01 · in Ask HN: What open-source projects are you looking at?
  45. ▲ 1
    Stats on Godot's Growth on GitHub · Issue #30000
    story by doppp · 2019-06-23 · 0 comments
  46. Many Godot users are unhappy with SCons https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/16014
    comment by dfgdghdf · 2019-06-09 · in SCons: A Software Construction Tool
  47. I was thinking "why not use bgfx?", thankfully it's already been discussed: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/19602 However, the arguments against bgfx seem to amount to "I want to do it myself", a classic "not invented here"…
    comment by speps · 2019-04-12 · in Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program
  48. …now. Both of these are being addressed as we speak. [2] https://www.patreon.com/godotengine [3] https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by cart_cart · 2019-02-12 · in Unity Technologies Targeting 2020 IPO
  49. …https://www.panda3d.org/ https://github.com/xenko3d/xenko https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic https://github.com/godotengine/godot https://github.com/fredakilla/GPlayEngine https://github.com/volcoma/EtherealEngine…
    comment by openbasic · 2019-01-11 · in Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
  50. Be the change you want to see. https://www.patreon.com/godotengine https://github.com/godotengine/godot
    comment by codetrotter · 2019-01-11 · in Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’