Godot Engine - Apps & Tools - 2022 Showreel
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as the official showcase that Godot works for non-game application development.
What it is
The Godot Engine 2022 showreel of apps and tools built with Godot, with a timestamped list of each project. It shows the engine being used well beyond games.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2023 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites follower · 2023-03 · on “Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic”
One of the leading contenders for being a modern equivalent IMO would be the Godot game engine. The Godot editor is less than 100MB to download for many platforms--the recent Godot 4 release also supports running the editor on the web[0] and on Android. Its packaging/distribution story for GUI-based applications is easier & stronger than any other modern programming environment of which I'm aware--in a large part due to the (IMO inspired ) architecture of using per-platform pre-built application templates/shells paired with per-project "data" files that contain assets & script byte code. Godot's modularity, ease of development & distribution has led to it being adopted for non-game applicati
Cites mdtrooper · 2023-10 · on “”
It is a good time for send the showreel of serious apps in Godot: [this video] I know a free software monitoring tool made with Godot: [LINK] [LINK]
Cites mentos · 2024-04 · on “3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine”
I agree Unreal and Unity are not appropriate but I do wonder about Godot. Its early enough where it doesn't have the strong connotations of being a game engine yet. I've seen some cool applications made in it too ( [this video] ). So I wonder if you could apply your energy to making it more cross platform using WASM (if that's even necessary) and extend it with your own UI language instead of rolling your own?
Cites rychco · 2024-09 · on “Godot for App Development”
I'm happy to see that this usage of Godot has continued. I've been interested in using Godot for application development since I saw their official "Apps & Tools - 2022 Showreel"[1] video. The only concern I see commonly mentioned is in terms of accessibility (lack of screen reader support, etc.) - which could be a major drawback for certain types of software. [1] [this video]