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Introduction
The Godot Engine is a versatile and powerful open-source game engine that allows developers to create 2D and 3D games.

One of the key differences to this ‘engine’, compared to others like Unity or Unreal, is that it’s a open-sourced. Godot is released under the MIT license; what this means is that it’s free to use, modify and distribute, both for personal and commercial projects.

Godot supports multiple scripting languages as well as visual scripting.
You can create and export to multiple platforms except for consoles.

Features

• You can create 2D& 3D games with its powerful open-source engine.

• Godot uses a node system to organise the scenes to make complex scene’s which makes it easier to reuse them.

• Godot Supports multiple scripting languages – GDScript, C#, C++ & more via extensions

• Cross platform game builds so you can export to windows, Mac, Mobile & HTML5 web browsers.

• If your and experienced coder you can modify the engine itself and add additional modules.

• Support for both high and low-end computers and devices, making you game more accessible.

• Import your assets with ease, take entire scenes, models, lighting, animations and customise how the engine views them. You can also import Blender files directly.

• Create animated videos and pre-rendered cutscenes using Godot’s movie maker mode.

• Specialised 2D pipeline for a streamlined experience

• Get more features added to the engine by using addons and Plugins.

Plugins

First, what’s a plugin?

A plugin is a piece of software that you add on to the main programme that allows you to do something different to the built-in functions.

There are a lot of people who have created their tools and plugins for Godot.

Godot has its own library to choose from containing:

• 3D Tools
• 2D tools
• Shaders
• Materials
• Tools
• Scripts
• And more

Check them out here

Important note: files are supposedly checked and approved by Godot to check they are safe, however I’d err on the side of caution, it’s best to do some research and check it safe to use.

The files are hosted via GitHub and if it’s open-sourced, you can look at the files before downloading them.

However, if you’re not an expert coder, you may not know what you are looking for.

There is always going to be some risk in downloading these plugins and files.

 Stop, think and check before downloading them.

Games made in Godot:

Dome Keeper

Brotato

Cassette beasts

Buckshot Roulette

Check out this showcase page  for more games made in Godot.

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Godot Platform & Requirements

Available on windows, Mac, Linux, Android and web editor (with some limitations).

CPU

Windows: Intel Core i5-6600K, AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Snapdragon X Elite

Mac: Intel Core i5-8500, Apple M1

Linux: Intel Core i5-6600K, AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Raspberry Pi 5 with overclocking

GPU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Pascal), AMD Radeon RX 460 (GCN 4.0)

Ram:

Native editor: 8 GB

Web editor: 12 GB

Storage

Approx. 1.5GB

Check out this link for full breakdown.

Is Godot free to use?