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godotengine / godot

godot

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

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What it is

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

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Where it is used

  • Material Maker — Material Maker uses Godot to build its open-source application for creating materials and textures. It is a shipped app showcased by the Godot project. Source
  • Cassette Beasts — Cassette Beasts uses the Godot Engine as the game’s engine. The developers describe choosing and settling on Godot for the project. Source

What people are saying

I've been building a game part-time in Godot[0] and I contribute to the code on occasion. For the most part it has been a pleasant experience[1]. It currently does not have the…

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year116 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-10 05:36:11 UTC to 2026-07-23 17:08:42 UTC.

051015202014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 2 submissions, 16 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 3 submissions, 11 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18216
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14311
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110

What Hacker News says

7 sources
jay_kyburz·Sep 2, 2021
Juan made it very clear in a follow up tweet that Sega would have had to have made significant changes to the engine in order to ship a game on it. I spent three months working in Godot a few years ago and it was clear even then that there were significant bugs in major systems. If you want to ship on Godot you had better be prepared to roll up your sleeves and dive right down 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 when a reference to an object it is holding, changes. They doubled down on the bug by making the behavior in Debug different to a Release build. It's marked closed, but users still report it happening.
In Game Engines on Steam: The Definitive Breakdown
chairmanwow1·Feb 5, 2021
Firstly, the Visual Shader GUI in Godot has pretty series issues on my Macbook. Secondly, it's impossible to do any effects with a stencil shader [1]. Most of the useful post-processing effects (bloom, depth-of-field etc) are implemented out of the box, so this also means that there isn't a way (AFAIK) to implement post-processing effects yourself. Godot also only has simplex noise implemented out of the box, so you need to jump through some hoops to get anything else included (which is super useful in shaders). [1] also has some images of the way to implement outline shaders in Godot, which is to move the faces of object out by a scaling factor and then render them as unshaded, which leaves some gnarly artifacts at the corners. [1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/23721
In Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot

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