I recently looked back to some of the old projects I worked on using Flash back in 1999 to 2003 or so. Some of those projects involved games development and generative art. I enjoyed programming in ActionScript 2 and 3 - and I enjoyed the creativity and freedom that Flash gave me for creating fun things.
I wanted to find something similar to Flash for creating some games and interactive experiences. Ideally it would be cross platform - and I stumbled across Godot Engine . As it's Open Source (MIT Licence - so actually Free Software) - a huge plus!
The UI for Godot is great, and the scripting language (GDScript) seems neat - it's python like. If you don't like that you can use C# and you can also extend it with other languages such as C++ and Go.
As a programmer, I wanted to first checkout the scripting language - and see what it was like. So, as I often do, I decided to write a simple 2d Cellular automata (See code below). From opening up the Editor for the first time, doing a spot of reading about how to set up a Scene and use it's Node system, it took me about 30 minutes to write a simple 2d Cellular automata. The built in IDE is great, with code highlighting, code suggestions and also a comprehensive debugging tool.
extends TextureRect # class member variables go here, for example: # var a = 2 # var b = "textvar" var imageTexture = ImageTexture.new() var currentLine = 0; var width = 1024 var height = 768 var dynImage = Image.new() var onColour = '#ffffff'; func _ready(): dynImage.create(width,height,false, Image.FORMAT_RGB8) dynImage.lock() for i in range(width): var rnd = rand_range(0,10) if(rnd < rand_range(0,10)): dynImage.set_pixel(i,0, Color(onColour)) dynImage.unlock() imageTexture.create_from_image(dynImage) self.texture = imageTexture imageTexture.resource_name = "The created texture!" print(self.texture.resource_name) pass func _process(delta): # # Called every frame. Delta is time since last frame. # # Update game logic here. currentLine = currentLine + 1 if(currentLine < height): for i in range(width): dynImage.lock() var currentPixel = dynImage.get_pixel(i, currentLine) var motherPixel = dynImage.get_pixel(i-1,currentLine-1) var fatherPixel = dynImage.get_pixel(i+1,currentLine-1) if(fatherPixel.to_html(false) == 'ffffff' && motherPixel.to_html(false) == 'ffffff'): dynImage.set_pixel(i, currentLine, Color(onColour)) if(rand_range(0,10) > 7): dynImage.set_pixel(i, currentLine, Color(onColour)) dynImage.unlock() imageTexture.create_from_image(dynImage) self.texture = imageTexture pass 
Top comments (2)
Agreed. Godot is pretty cool.
Thank you for such a fantastic programming skills.
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