Creating an RSS Reader in Godot Engine (part 1)
Godot Engine is an up-and-coming 3D and 2D game engine that is free, and open source. It competes with the likes of Unity and Unreal Engine but right now — while it’s simple and easy to learn as well as fun to use — it doesn’t quite blow away folks on the graphics side of things who are used to high end tools. (That is changing rapidly with every new version!)
However, it has an extremely interesting feature in that the very UI of the application itself is a “Godot Game.” Meaning they used the same rendering engine to render the IDE as they do to render any given game.
This is a brilliant move on their part, and it makes accessible to anyone using Godot a pretty useful set of UI tools to build simple applications. You probably won’t use it to create the next SnapChat or PhotoShop, but when it comes to game-centric applications, Godot Engine is a extremely useful and versatile way to prototype apps.
The game tool called RPG in a box is being created using the built-in components of Godot Engine along with lots of custom components created specifically for this unique tool. The fact that the core engine remains the same while having a completely…
