HIhiccuphippo·Jan 31, 2026
Check Lorien, a whiteboard/drawing app made in Godot.
https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien
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Lorien
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
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Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
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Completely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that…
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7 sourcesCompletely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that Godot is fantastic as a UI builder, and I think a lot of people are slowly realizing it. Many professional applications have been built with Godot[0] , and I also want to give a shoutout to Lorien[1] which is my favorite whiteboard application also made in Godot, and what partially inspired this whole project.
Godot isn't perfect of course, and there are some things that many other UI creating tools do better, but I think there's a lot of untapped potential here.
[0]: https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal...
[1]: https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien
In Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engineanother example of an interesting application for godot that's not a game is https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien - an infinite canvas for drawing.
In Create non-game apps with Godot EngineYes, although the first-generation of apps are only just beginning to emerge. Here are a couple of fully-featured projects on Github:
Pixel art editor:
https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama
Infinite canvas drawing tool:
https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien
Trello-style kanban board:
https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello
Narrative designer for games:
https://github.com/mhgolkar/Arrow
In Godot 4.1Someone made a prototype here: https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien/discussions/51
It's defininetly possible
In Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding appCoincidentally, I installed and tested this last week.
It doesn't detect the use of the delete button in my stylus.
There's even an issue in GitHub about it: https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien/issues/118
In Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding appLorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
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