A New Open-Source Game Engine Being Released

[IanS]

Woo! http://www.godotengine.org/wp/

[IanS]

I guess they must be waiting until after the game jam to do the public release, perhaps to get some of the participants to offer up their projects as example code for new users to have something to look at while learning to use the engine. Whatever the delay is though, I hope we aren't stuck waiting too much longer. If I read the news about that game jam properly, I guess there is about 6 more hours left, then I suppose that tomorrow will be trying the games, voting and such to determine winners. So I suppose tomorrow evening is the most likely time to see it. Though it could also be that we misread Juan when he replied with "next weekend" for the release. He might not of meant this weekend we are now in, but the following one. I really hope that isn't the case though.

[amagnoni]

Tomorrow!

http://okamstudio.com/godot-game-jam-2014/

[coroutine]

Is there any documentation out?

[IanS]

I just had another question come to mind; does Okam plan to set up an official forum for Godot users and devs? I don't recall seeing anything mentioned about that yet, nor any sort of forum on the Okam website so far.

[IanS]

Cool, thanks for the update, Juan. I'm looking forward to working with it.

[Juan Linietsky]

It's been about a month since the original announcement, is there any chance that you have a better idea of when we can expect to see the release? I'm not asking for an exact date, unless you have one, but just generally along the lines of: in a few days, a few weeks, or closer to the end of the month.

next weekend should be out

[IanS]

It's been about a month since the original announcement, is there any chance that you have a better idea of when we can expect to see the release? I'm not asking for an exact date, unless you have one, but just generally along the lines of: in a few days, a few weeks, or closer to the end of the month.

[Juan Linietsky]

Juan, is Godot suitable/has been used for top-down, tile-based RPGs? I want to do a hobby project with some friends and we are looking for an easy to use (I'm the only one of the group who knows programming, so this is vital) engine, and yours seems to provide quite good tools.

There grid-based tile editor (which I guess would work for something FF6-like), and then just the standard 2D tools for placing and animating things. I suppose the particle system editor for 2D would be nice for spells since it's pretty powerful and you can animate the parameters over time.

[mrugiero]

Juan, is Godot suitable/has been used for top-down, tile-based RPGs? I want to do a hobby project with some friends and we are looking for an easy to use (I'm the only one of the group who knows programming, so this is vital) engine, and yours seems to provide quite good tools.