⚙️ Free and open-source 2D game engine, licensed under GPL, and written in C++/Lua. Primarly aimed for Action-RPGs but can do much more!
🛠️ It supports Lua scripting, and includes a game editor and a game launcher, both written in C++/Qt.
🎮 We also make games to showcase our engine!
It was not an April's Fools! It's real! 😁
Here is the blog article, with a link to the full changelog for the 2.0 release!
Have fun making games! 🥳
Please report the bugs if you find some. 🙏
https://www.solarus-games.org/news/2025-04-01-solarus-2-0-0-release
It was not an April's Fools! It's real! 😁
Here is the blog article, with a link to the full changelog for the 2.0 release!
Have fun making games! 🥳
Please report the bugs if you find some. 🙏
https://www.solarus-games.org/news/2025-04-01-solarus-2-0-0-release
@lutindiscret Merci 😁
📢 You've been all waiting for it... Here it is, finally: Solarus 2.0.0!
https://tilvids.com/w/dV6YxxedGnYaYnyd1mqQT9
#GameEngine #opensource #free #NotAnAprilsFools #gamedev #libre
@cpontvieux Done! Pour le moment il n'y a que le package Windows qui est prêt. Les autres arriveront plus tard.
📢 You've been all waiting for it... Here it is, finally: Solarus 2.0.0!
https://tilvids.com/w/dV6YxxedGnYaYnyd1mqQT9
#GameEngine #opensource #free #NotAnAprilsFools #gamedev #libre
Thanks to Retrogaming.me for their article about Solarus ❤️ (French)
https://retrogaming.me/solarus-la-passion-de-zelda-transformee-en-moteur-de-jeu-open-source
As every year, here is a retrospective of what happened for Solarus and its community in 2024!
https://www.solarus-games.org/news/2025-03-07-solarus-in-2024-a-retrospective
@oclero A dark theme for Solarus Quest Editor is closer than ever 😘
Solarus Labs are the developers of the free open source Solarus game engine, which lets people make their own 2D action RPGs. They have an official PeerTube channel full of tutorials at:
➡️ @solarus_labs (in English & French)
There are already over 100 videos on their account, if they haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/solarus_labs/videos
You can also follow their non-video account at @solarus
#FeaturedPeerTube #FOSS #GameDev #Dev #RPGs #PeerTube #PeerTubers
🥳💻Qlementine, my new Qt6 theme, just had its first release v1.0.0!
It covers the most common use cases, brings new QWidgets, and a basic JSON theming system.
https://github.com/oclero/qlementine
Thank you to Le Mag Rétrogaming for talking about the engine! ❤️
https://retrogaming.me/solarus-la-passion-de-zelda-transformee-en-moteur-de-jeu-open-source
@Alxira5 I've answered you on Twitter 🙂
What do you want to do, exactly? Having an executable that launches your quest, with the right icon and name?
@yisraeldov please give more détails. :)
📝 Like every year, in this blog note, we take stock of the past year (2023), and we discuss the projects planned for this year 2024.
https://www.solarus-games.org/news/2024-03-30-solarus-in-2023-a-retrospective/
Christopho published a tutorial about GLSL shaders in Solarus.
Available both in English and French. 📕📘
We can't wait to see what you're going to come up for your games! Have fun! 😀
@FediFollows @narrat @godotengine @godotcon @godotassetstore @godotfoundation @bevy @bitsy Hey, thanks for the shout out 😃
#GameEngines picks of the day:
➡️ @narrat - Beginner-friendly engine for narrative games (RPGs, visual novels, interactive fiction etc)
➡️ @godotengine (main) & @godotcon (conference) & @godotassetstore (asset store) & @godotfoundation (foundation) - FOSS 3D & 2D multiplatform game engine
➡️ @solarus - Free open source 2D game engine mainly for RPGs
➡️ @bevy - Simple data-driven FOSS game engine built in Rust
➡️ @bitsy - FOSS engine for little games made & played within browser.
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📢 Better late than never: the v1.0.0 release of Qlementine Icons, my icon set!
🔧 Features: 350+ sleek handcrafted vector icons, a website to browse them, and a #cpp library to use them in your #QtWidgets applications.
🥳 Happy New Year!
#mit #opensource #free
You may have missed it in 2023: Solarus has been used for a short #gamedevelopment #summercamp ! 🎮🧑💻
Thank you to the Héricourt media library for hosting this course. 😃
