Godot Engine

Godot Engine is a flexible cross-platform editor (engine), allowing you to create unique game hits without programming knowledge. It will enable you to enjoy various tools for creating personal 2D masterpieces and use countless built-in graphics for the fastest possible development of your first brainchild.

You can try to create full-blown 3D games and use the numerous features for creating game scenes, graphic assets, and even simulations of real-world processes. In addition, the program has a special debugger and a universal toolset for working with scripts and animation.

Program features

The built-in functionality of the Godot Engine allows the developer to create a game or an application from scratch without using external tools. It can be done with the following features:

• Working with 2D and 3D graphics: support for reflection effects, dynamic shadows, static and dynamic global lighting, and full-screen post-processing (highlighting, depth of field, gamma correction, etc.);

• Support for realistic physics: particle system (smoke, fog, steam, explosions, etc.), properties of dynamic and static bodies, collisions and destructions, ray tracing, and other physical processes;

• Working with animation: options of creating skeleton animation, overlaying objects, and real-time cutscenes;

• Navigation mesh: the algorithm for finding the optimal route for the game object in a complex space;

• Multimedia support: audio and video files playback using plug-in Theora, OGG Vorbis, and WAV codecs;

• AR/VR, a built-in mobile augmented and virtual reality interface using 3DOF sensors on the mobile device;

• Connecting input on your devices, such as keyboard, mouse, gamepad, and touch screen;

• Procedural generation: automatic creation of in-game content (environment, NPCs, objects, weapons, etc.) using algorithms;

• Programming languages support: Godot Engine has a proprietary high-level GDScript programming language; С# and C++ can also be used.

Godot's features can be extended with plug-ins and third-party applications. You can also connect self-developed or third-party virtual/augmented reality plug-ins, video, and audio codecs, visual editors, etc.

Who should install this program?

If you want to test your skills in game development of any genre, Godot Engine is a great environment to implement this idea. A user-friendly interface and proprietary game engines can help you to make the first steps in game development. You need to study the documentation and get accustomed to the built-in scripting language, similar to the Python language. The Godot Engine is intuitive even for beginners who have dealt with developing complex projects. It is designed on the principle of a hierarchy of ordered contextual windows, containing an element, function, or procedure to be executed in the game world.