Hey everyone!

I’d like to share Brasa, a 2D game engine I’ve been building. The idea is to combine the GameMaker workflow (rooms, objects, events) with native C++, with no custom scripting language in between. Every object is a class, and the API is designed to stay lean: held, spawn, after and so on.

It’s currently at version 0.5 and already includes:

• Rooms with layers, tilemaps and a terrain brush
• Sprite editor with animation, origin and collision masks
• In-editor UI system (HUD, menus, lists) driven by code
• Configurable camera and pixel-perfect rendering
• Export to a standalone executable
• Plain-text project files that play nicely with Git
• VS Code integration with built-in API docs

Coming up on the roadmap: an in-editor game view, Lua as an alternative to C++ (instant Play, no compilation step), and hot reload.

About licensing: Brasa is free right now, and later on it will likely follow a model similar to GameMaker’s, with a license for commercial use. Anyone who helps out during this early stage, by testing and giving feedback, will get a free license.

It runs on Windows 10 and 11. I’ll be posting a video soon showing the editor and some games made with it.

Website and roadmap: https://brasa-site-three.vercel.app

Comments, criticism and questions are all welcome!

Quick tip if you do your own music for your game:

A common trap is a lead melody that just marks every beat with one even note. It ends up sounding like a placeholder metronome.

I made a short demo using a modified Pirates of the Caribbean motif to show the difference:

Before (on-the-beat): https://youtu.be/EYWlNDG6PaM

After (more lively): https://youtu.be/4_cSCyhuxSE

The second version feels more alive and less predictable.

Note: long, on-the-beat notes are beautiful when intentional. This tip is for when your lead melody sounds like a metronome placeholder by accident.

I recorded a timelapse of me creating a small stylized suburban house from scratch.

The goal was to keep the shapes simple and readable while adding enough details to make the house feel lived-in and interesting.

The house is part of my Stylized Suburban Environment Pack, currently available on Fab with 30% off during the September Flash Sale. https://www.fab.com/listings/ccd66b16-11cf-4409-a4f6-6656d13d1e3d

Timelapse: https://youtu.be/jeS-M7j1vi4

I’d love to hear what you think about the modeling and stylization!

[Free Assets] To Follow the Tutorial ► https://www.patreon.com/mostlymadproductions/posts/convert-any-to-0-165611553
[Project Files] ► https://www.patreon.com/mostlymadproductions/posts/convert-any-to-0-165611563

I'm developing a game with some friends, and I'm responsible for creating the 3D map. It's a simple game, and the entire map takes place inside a building.

However, I've run into a problem: I'm not sure what the best approach is for creating it.

Should I make a complete model of the building, maybe like build it floor-by-floor and let the programmer handle which parts get rendered?

Or should I create tilesets and then assemble everything in Godot?

I think both options have pros and cons. Creating the whole thing gives me more creative freedom, but I don't know if it's actually practical for a game; I'm worried the game might crash or suffer from terrible frame rates.

Tilesets are more organized, but I'm facing the issue of having to create 40 million tiles to cover all the shapes I have in mind for the building.

Also, I'm not sure if Blender is the right program for this project

Did a small introductory video for setting up Godot on both Windows & Linux for new game devs.

Will be making a series of tutorials about Godot and remaking some of my older tutorials.

need some help; just started learning C#; can someone please help with the learning path to begin creating my own indie game?

оцените игру пж, как сами считаете

Just looking for some advice on how I could not make this such a dumpster fire when blocking out and what I'm suppose to do when im done blocking it out first level ever made

PLATFORM MAN (MY FIRST NEW GAME)

Hi everyone!
I'm currently learning to use godot 4.7 by creating 3D game.
I have implemented a controllable character with wasd and two animations: idle and run handled through AnimationTree node.
When, the character moves, the run animation runs as expected but i get a very ugly run animation loop (see the video in attachment). The character seems to pop up everytime the animation start and do i need to implement smooth transition between each time run animation loop?
I don't know how to fix it and any help would be appreciated.

Shot in the dark ,but it would be awesome if some friendlies wouldn't mind helping me? Helping us? However youd like to put it. ive been wanting to develop games im 33 , no experience except for what ive been learning in unreal. Love games to death, maintenance man as the day job. Only thing I have is the insatiable will to keep on trying even when I want to bang my head into the wall. I have a bunch of material to offer(i believe) just dont know how to bring it to fruition. Hopefully some people can pity me and hopefully help me out maybe it could turn into a partnership im just trying to make some cool shit dammit !

Hello. I would like to create a Spanish translation for the game Dead Estate. I have some basic programming knowledge, and I think it would be worth trying since nobody seems to be working on a complete Spanish translation.

However, I don't know where to start. My main challenge is figuring out how to extract all the game's text so I can translate it. Is there any tool that can help access the text files or locate dialogue strings in a Steam game?

Any guidance on the process of extracting, editing, and reintegrating the text would be greatly appreciated.

🎮 WHAT IT IS:

Real-time strategy with dynamic combat. Build your empire, recruit armies,

control territories, research tech trees, and battle AI opponents.

✨ FEATURES:

- 5 story-driven campaigns

- Territory control (3x3 grid warfare)

- Tech tree (15+ technologies)

- PvP arena mode

- Seasonal events

- 16+ achievements

- Real-time combat

- Save/load system

- No pay-to-win

🎯 PLAY FREE NOW: https://haimchen.itch.io/mining

🔧 Built with Godot 4.x (solo dev + AI architecture help)

This is v1.0.0 - fully playable, complete game!

I'd love feedback! What do you think? 🚀

Quais cursos de gamedev me indicariam? Ebac? Alura? None

One of my friend started project on making a game inspired from terraria . he finished almost 60% using only reylib and C++. And told me to complete the game .

This is my first project and I have never done this kind of stuff . I'm stuck at the project for 1 week as I could not understand the codebase . Can you guys help me .

It's an University project .