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The changes include work done to ensure that GDNative apps and Nim integration specifically can run on Android. The changes have been tested on our WIP game, which uses godot-nim and depends on several third-party .so libs, and Platformer demo to ensure nothing got broken. - .so libraries are exported to lib/ folder in .apk, instead of assets/, because that's where Android expects them to be and it resolves the library name into "lib/<ABI>/<name>", where <ABI> is the ABI matching the current device. So we establish the convention that Android .so files in the project must be located in the folder corresponding to the ABI they were compiled for. - Godot callbacks (event handlers) are now called from the same thread from which Main::iteration is called. It is also what Godot now considers to be the main thread, because Main::setup is also called from there. This makes threading on Android more consistent with other platforms, making the code that depends on Thread::get_main_id more portable (GDNative has such code). - Sizes of GDNative API types have been fixed to work on 32-bit platforms.
Godot Engine
Homepage: https://godotengine.org
2D and 3D cross-platform game engine
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported in one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows) as well as mobile (Android, iOS) and web-based (HTML5) platforms.
Free, open source and community-driven
Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. The users' games are theirs, down to the last line of engine code. Godot's development is fully independent and community-driven, empowering users to help shape their engine to match their expectations. It is supported by the Software Freedom Conservancy not-for-profit.
Before being open sourced in February 2014, Godot had been developed by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur (both still maintaining the project) for several years as an in-house engine, used to publish several work-for-hire titles.
Getting the engine
Binary downloads
Official binaries for the Godot editor and the export templates can be found on the homepage.
Compiling from source
See the official docs for compilation instructions for every supported platform.
Community
Godot is not only an engine but an ever-growing community of users and engine developers. The main community channels are listed on the homepage.
To get in touch with the developers, the best way is to join the #godotengine IRC channel on Freenode.
Documentation and demos
The official documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs. It is maintained by the Godot community in its own GitHub repository.
The class reference is also accessible from within the engine.
The official demos are maintained in their own GitHub repository as well.
There are also a number of other learning resources provided by the community, such as text and video tutorials, demos, etc. Consult the community channels for more info.
