Have you guys heard of Godot Game Engine?

https://godotengine.org/ is supposed to be more total beginner friendly game engine than Unity apparently

There's a Mini Degree course for it on Zenva.com, I went on the site above and downloaded the Linux file but it's a .64 file which I have no idea what to do with!

Does anyone have experience of this?

 

@RichAllen2016 Yes, I've used it. It's a great open-source game engine. It is being actively maintained.

 

You might have better luck getting support for Godot on the Godot Forums.

 

First result in a Google search brings up https://askubuntu.com/questions/685951/lubuntu-how-do-i-run-64-files

From a terminal:

chmod +x Godot_v3.3-stable_x11.64
./Godot_v3.3-stable_x11.64

I haven't tried, but you should be able to do the same thing from the file manager, double click on it. You may need to right click and set execute permissions

Another link https://snapcraft.io/install/godot/debian

 

I've heard about Godot. That engine looks nice.

 

It's interesting. I've looked into it - unfortunately overhyped to the extreme, and it's community can be blind to what the engine can actually do, and what it can't do - currently.

Blender did it quite well, and while it's amazing that godot is open source, It's development isn't shocking me, speed wise.

It's fun to mess around with, maybe do some simple 2D games, but that's about it. For 3D it's just not ready at all -- and 2D, you're better off with other proven engines. (Unity, gamemaker)

 

I tried using Godot but wasn't impressed, it has many flaws compared to Unity.

That's for 3D games, I've heard it's pretty good with 2D.

Also the engine itself is much leaner and uses less system resources, I think the executable is under 50MB compared to several GB for Unity. But yeh, it has much less functionality, and I wouldn't recommend it for 3D.