godotengine.org
So, what is Godot? For those who haven't heard of it before: Godot is a game engine and development toolkit, similar to Unity or Unreal Engine. The important difference is that unlike those, it's free and open-source software... one that aims to provide the same features and performance as its proprietary counterparts. Godot is to the world of game development what Blender is to the world of animators.
Now the engine has been around for a few years under version 2.1. The problem is that this version has never been optimized for 3D support, only the 2D framework received any real attention: While 3D games were possible, they were implemented and ran very poorly rendering them practically unusable. Godot 3.0 was officially released just a few days ago and finally changed all that: A new 3D framework was added allowing for modern optimized functionality! On top of that it introduced another long awaited feature: Visual scripting, letting game logics be defined via nodes without you even having to write a line of code.
Considering the engine is fully free and easy to work with, I believe it would be a great candidate for the higher quality vore games. I already have plans for at least one of my own, though considering how many things I'm busy with it's unlikely to see much progress anytime soon. I believe there are a few good video tutorials out there... the engine also comes with a bunch of demos showcasing its various features, which you can open in the editor to study how they're set up.
Let me know what you think. If you have any Godot projects of your own, please share them here and let us know! I'm hoping any developers seeing this decide to pick up the engine and do something interesting with it.
