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🛠️ Title: Blockbench
🦊️ What's: A libre low-poly 3D model editor
🏡️ https://www.blockbench.net/
🐣️ https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #GraphicsEditor #Modeling
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 4.12.5
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️💎🚀️📟️🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/WbyCbA1c8BM
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/RC1CYzAEgzE
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLvULVkjBtg2SezfUA8kHcPUGpxIS26uJR
🕯️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLXcFEKHsrWHqlSibonvqRN6FMh8IR0YqQ
🩳️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/TUDWayB009w
🩳️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/uLMosIJ1YM8

🕶️ A view of its UI (an image taken from the site) with the current editing of a pixelated 3D tractor with its trailer on the main central part, its textures and shapes on the left with the 2 elements below (tractor and trailer can be activated separately), on the right the parameters of the edited object (position, size, etc.) and below the project tree.

📚️ Blockbench is a libre, multiplatform, voxel-based 3D graphics editor aimed at designing low-poly models with pixel art textures. Its interface provides all the tools needed to create low-poly models, such as cuboids, mesh modelling tools for complex shapes, texture design and painting to dress them up, and animation (its animation editor lets you rig a model (create its skeleton) and use position, rotation and scale keyframes to bring it to life. Models can be exported in standardised formats for sharing, rendering, 3D printing or use in game engines. Its interface can be customised and enhanced using plugins.

🛠️ Title: Tahoma2D
🦊️ What's: A libre, professional-quality 2D bitmap and vector animation tool
🏡️ https://tahoma2d.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/tahoma2d
🦉️ https://mastodon.world/@tahoma2d
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #VFX #MotionGraphics
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.5.3
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️🐞️🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/tahoma2d/tahoma2d/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/tahoma2d/tahoma2d/releases.atom

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/PDcddYKM5cI
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/hP3eOfODYKg
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PL5xtQ0kWJKFRrl7LTB4r0w1MuYGTGn3UG
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/VQSDcl80tfE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/h2EEYQd0D-o

🕶️ A view of its IU, with a cartoon featuring a young dog running on its 2 hind legs on the main panel, the timeline divided into 6 zones below the scene, and a drawing area on the left, with its various tools in the form of icons and parameter boxes.

📚️ Tahoma2D is a fork of OpenToonz, a libre, multi-platform and mature 2D bitmap and vector animation (motion design) tool. Initially developed and used by studios Ghibli (under the name Toonz) and Dwango (which adapted it, used it for its own needs and freed it), it is now used by major studios for short and feature films, and series. It integrates the complete design chain for import, drawing, animation and effects, and can be extended via plugins. Tahoma2D brings to its predecessors simplified project management, a streamlined workspace, a status bar with tips for novices, style set management, a perspective grid tool, a symmetry tool, referenced fills, timeline folders, live clipping masks, and DSLR camera support.

🛠️ Title: Zed
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://zed.dev/
🐣️ https://github.com/zed-industries
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #Flatpak
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 0.189.5➜0.191.5
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://zed.dev/releases/stable
🦣️ From: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/114705704182210670

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/bfXXS5Z1JMc?start=838
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/_JdfeZdeOa4
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/luUmGeWvAGw
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCQwMXZ4Cy8
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fk08oNi0j1Y

🕶️ A view of its UI (on a dark theme) at startup: the interface is uncluttered, with each icon leading to a menu. The main tab displays its icon and below it offers the option of enabling or disabling Vim mode, sending anonymous usage data, and crash reports.

📚️ Zed is a libre, multi-platform IDE written in Rust by the authors of the Atom IDE. It is designed to be extremely fast and powerful (using all CPU cores and the GPU), stable (developers experienced in this type of tool, deliverables fully tested), and collaborative (low-latency collaborative editing in shared space, including on code not yet saved, virtual desktop, shared document for note-taking, audio and text chat). It also features assisted editing (Copilot, GPT-4), autocompletion and syntax highlighting with diagnostics and refactoring, an integrated terminal, a Vim mode with assistance, and themes.

🛠️ Title: Blender
🦊️ What's: A libre suite for modeling & animation
🏡️ https://www.blender.org
🐣️ https://projects.blender.org/
🦉️ https://mastodon.social/@blender
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Animation #Modeling
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 4.2.11 LTS
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://wiki.blender.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/TQElJP1AaS0
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/9BqcZ4RSX7s
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/hNzQ1G3bZI0
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Idlll0N3EVk

🕶️ A view of its user interface (v.4.5.0 Beta, on my PC Linux, with a dark theme) at application startup : it displays a preference window at startup topped by an image (their last game, by blender).

📚️ Blender is a libre, multi-platform modeling and animation suite that supports the entire 3D pipeline: modeling, manipulation, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and even video editing and game creation (via an integrated engine). It is a mature tool, continuously improved since its creation in 1995. Several animation films have been created to test it in situation, and it is now also recognized and used in film creation.

🛠️ Title: VSCodium
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://vscodium.com
🐣️ https://github.com/VSCodium
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE #Telemetry
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

👹️ Telemetry: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1322

🥁️ Update: 1.101.3933 (=vsc 1.101.0)
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases.atom

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8accXNcwjs?start=633
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLjCGSCBfSFa9jbjQuGCtJ3Ncl3Xyr8Mn_
🐧https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtK-prBAyPo

🕶️ A view of its user interface in a dark theme, with code editing on the right showing syntax highlighting, suggestions when entering code and code structuring in nested levels, the current project tree on the left, and the editor menus at the top and far left.

📚️ VSCodium is a telemetry-free fork (VSCodium=publishing Visual Studio Code binaries with "almost" no telemetry) of Visual Studio Code, the Microsoft libre, multi-platform code editor, combining the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their edit, build and debug cycle, and leaving more complex workflows to more comprehensive IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE. It offers full support for editing, browsing and understanding code, as well as lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model and lightweight integration with existing tools.

🛠️ Title: Open 3D Engine
🦊️ What's: A libre 3D game engine for AAA quality games
🏡️ https://o3de.org
🐣️ https://github.com/o3de
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #LibreEngine
📦️ #Arch #Deb #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 2505
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/o3de/sig-release/blob/main/releases/25.05.0/25.05.0.md
🦣️ From: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/114700218861348018

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/CQmjAxr7LZs
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/h27MOJjoApM
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/rfUdYW_5Woo
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/bg-iriAc8RE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/ebr8t_mz8p8

🕶️ A view of its UI (on a dark theme) with in the center and on most of the UI the image of the game (in this case a flat surface with a model resembling a webcam, and in the background a mountainous area), and on the sides the dialog boxes, and on top of the screen the menus.

📚️ Open 3D Engine is a libre, multi-platform 3D game engine developed by the Open 3D Foundation from the Amazon Lumberyard engine (itself derived from the CryEngine). It allows the design of AAA quality games and cinema-quality 3D worlds. Its features include an extensible, multi-tasking photorealistic renderer, a 3D content editor, a character animation system, a physics engine, and a high-performance network layer. Its modular architecture based on components (the "Gems"), allows for great extensibility and support of user's cloud services.

🛠️ Title: Armory3D (Blender plugin)
🦊️ What's: A libre 3D game engine distributed as an add-on for Blender
🏡️ https://armory3d.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/armory3d
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #LibreEngine #Blender
📦️ #Plugin
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 2025.6
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/armory3d/armory/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/armory3d/armory/releases.atom

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvoHt9UzGcQ
🦝️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/T53YWO9M6r0
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/3CqgYiDDfHE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/PZxjCwZTXqs
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/QQSaiXKjlKI

🕶️ A 3D FPS developed with this engine, showing its capabilities. It shows several avatars of players wearing armor in a shooting posture, in an open-air room cluttered with barrels and cubes. The screenshot highlights the dynamic lighting and shadows.

📚️ Armory3D is a libre, multi-platform 3D game engine delivered as an add-on for Blender. It focuses on portability, minimal footprint and performance. The renderer is fully scriptable, with deferred and forward paths supported out of the box. Its integration with Blender as an add-on allows it to offer a complete game development tool with a unified workflow from start to finish. It offers Haxe scripting or visual scripting as logic nodes, a UI creation system (with a WYSIWYG editor), a physics engine (Bullet), a navigation system for NPCs (Recast), a particle system, animation and lighting.

🛠️ Title: FamiStudio
🦊️ What's: A libre tracker that's both powerful and simple/ergonomic
🏡️ https://famistudio.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/BleuBleu/FamiStudio/
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Music #Sequencer #Chiptune
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Flatpak
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 4.4.1
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️🐞️🐞️🐞️👄️
📌️ Changes: https://famistudio.org/doc/changelog/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/BleuBleu/FamiStudio/releases.atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/1xQbFUGz0Co
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/56a_9SR0ITQ
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/46jjM9c36ZE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/xeLJAkJuMDQ
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/7pCjlBeW0ks

🕶️ A view of its IU (on a dark theme) with music playing. Instruments are displayed on the right, while on the left is the piano, and in the center the notes played as bars.

📚️ FamiStudio is a libre, multi-platform tracker that's both powerful and simple/ergonomic. Designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, its functionalities are nevertheless more limited. It is aimed at both chiptune artists and NES homebrewers. Initially designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom, it can also be used for Linux and supports various import/export formats. It features a modern DAW-style interface with sequencer and piano roll.

🛠️ Title: Yoshimi
🦊️ What's: A libre software synthesizer for Linux derived from ZynAddSubFX
🏡️ https://yoshimi.sourceforge.io
🐣️ https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi/
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Music #Synthesizer
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 2.3.4.1
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi/tags
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi/releases.atom

🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/ytvqtsPxi7I
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/ATNH--cVy8A
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/H53Iy397Q4o
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/AbMdckEnsEo
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/dcImV6NPP-c

🕶️ A view of its multiple UIs with tons of settings, a virtual keyboard and several frequency curves.

📚️ Yoshimi is a libre powerful real-time polyphonic synthesizer for Linux (only), and a fork of ZynAddSubFX v.2.4.0 (multi-platform), to improve its JACK support. Their capabilities are broadly identical, but they differ significantly in terms of control and interface (customizable and size-adjustable, with saved window dimensions). It features an undo/redo function for its modifiable parameters, and has benefited from major improvements, notably to the microtonal part, the padsynth engine, filters and bug fixes.

🛠️ Title: OpenToonz
🦊️ What's: A libre, professional-quality 2D bitmap & vector anim tool
🏡️ https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html
🐣️ https://github.com/opentoonz/
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #VFX #MotionGraphics
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.7.1.1
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/tags
🦣️ From: https://social.tchncs.de/@distrowatch/110748272069223314

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/VKG6g8G_5zk
🦝️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/0bHVigpsxTA
🏎️ [fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1trU52ipuA
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/44Y-zs9jswc
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/gZC3rky3mqQ

🕶️ A view of the UI, with the various tools associated with each work phase separated into tabs at the top right of the interface (Drawing, Cleanup, Palette, InknPaint, Animation, Schematic, Xsheet, Tasks, Browser). To the left of the UI are the drawing tools, and to the top left the menus. The image shown is taken (by me) from the Free*SVG site (https://freesvg.org/reindeer-vector-cartoon, Public Domain).

📚️ OpenToonz is a libre, multi-platform, mature 2D bitmap and vector animation tool (motion design). It was used and developed by Studios Ghibli (under the name Toonz) and Dwango (who adapted it, used it for their own needs and freed it). Today, it is used by major studios to produce short films, feature films and series. It integrates the complete design chain for import (including TWAIN-standard scanning), drawing (MyPaint brushes, and numerous editing tools), animation and effects (image style change, incident light assignment, wavy distortion), and can be extended by plugins.

🛠️ Title: Mixxx
🦊️ What's: A libre DJ tool for making live DJ mixes
🏡️ https://www.mixxx.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Music #dj
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 2.5.2
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://mixxx.org/news/2025-04-27-mixxx-2_5_1-released/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/releases.atom
📰(2.5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJBuUR_cn8

🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/nOxTFWKoNo8
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/rt5Ed5GZ1U8
🕯️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLt1Jpn9VqdWufQvQJM2k85JJvVrGx0tUc
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/FRlPh5rMuJs
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/0K4p8QTMbZM

🕶️ A view of its UI with 4 tracks playing (scrollable waveform) visible at the top of the UI and 4 control boards below, on either side of a control board with numerous potentiometers.

📚️ Mixxx is a libre, multi-platform DJ tool for creating live DJ mixes. Features include BPM (beat) and key detection to find the most suitable next track, support for on-the-fly resampling without pitch modification (Sync Lock), effects addition, digital scratching, beat looping and beat rolls (loops on samples), hotcues (track cues), session recording, support for numerous audio formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, . .), interfacing with an external mixer, and vinyl control.

🛠️ Title: Material Maker
🦊️ What's: A libre tool for creating procedural PBR materials
🏡️ https://www.materialmaker.org
🐣️ https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #VFX #MaterialMaker #Godot
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #Flatpak
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.4b3
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️💎📟️🐞️🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker/releases.atom

🏝️(0.94) https://www.youtube.com/embed/mSuyrsJSZ_o
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/8QzDPzJhVs4
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/n-KxWcyOT3w
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrTR1Uxsl3k
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/75M8bOnZNVU

🕶️ A view of the UI, with the main part in the center showing the various effects boxes with their parameters and the links that connect them to produce the desired effect. On the left, a library tab and an image of the selected starting model, and on the right, a preview of the texture created.

📚️ Material Maker is a libre, multi-platform tool for creating procedural PBR (Physically Based Rendering) materials (allows you to add relief/fine texture to a basic model via texture "painting"), based on the Godot engine. Materials are defined as graphics where nodes create or transform textures, and can then be exported to Godot, Unity or Unreal engines. It can also be used to create several types of materials, and new custom material types, as well as new export targets for existing materials, can be added if needed.

🛠️ Title: Kakoune
🦊️ What's: A libre modal code editor inspired by Vim
🏡️ https://kakoune.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Programming #Editor
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Snap
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 20240509➜20250603
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️🪛️💎
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/releases.atom

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/sbfCSHhopT4
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wo1G6rW_W5k
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRFC7BNrkbU
🕯️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLjCGSCBfSFa86KFJdrsH0IhIvOgKoz657
🕯️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/26dnUOLJJzA

🕶️ A full-screen, text-mode view of its UI, including online help (with paperclip icon), syntax highlighting, 3 windows of the same document in different locations, and a dialog box in the foreground.

📚️ Kakoune is a libre and multi-platform modal (normal or insertion modes) code editor, in full screen text mode, inspired by Vim (and thus by vi), selection oriented, and focusing on interactivity. As in Vim, its functions are accessible via keyboard shortcuts, but they are reversed (the user makes his selection BEFORE selecting the command). The selections have an anchor and a cursor on which the commands act. It has all the functions that the user expects to find, is largely extensible and customizable (macros & functions), and allows collaborative editing.

🛠️ Title: JUCE
🦊️ What's: A (partially) libre tool for the dev. of sound apps & plug-ins
🏡️ https://www.juce.com/
🐣️ https://github.com/juce-framework
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Framework #Music
📦️ #Libre #Freemium #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 8.0.8
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️📟️💎🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uj94TYQ6LN0
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLLgJJsrdwhPxa6-02-CeHW8ocwSwl2jnu
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLbqhA-NKGP6DiGtVK4WhEHgNZQS7NmBH7
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/X7TbOB85XEs
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/i_Iq4_Kd7Rc

🕶️ A view of its UI (on a dark theme) at startup. At the top are the main menus, on the left drop-down menus for selecting the type of application required, and on the right the selection of modules and the type of code export wished.

📚️ JUCE is a partially (since version 7) libre, multi-platform C++ framework for the development of stand-alone tools, audio plugins (VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, AAX and LV2), and plug-in hosts. It can be easily integrated into existing projects via CMake, or used for project generation via Projucer, which supports project export for Xcode (macOS and iOS), Visual Studio, Android Studio, Code::Blocks and Linux Makefiles, and contains a source code editor. It provides a library of digital audio processing modules (DSP) supplying various effects, filters, instruments and audio generators.

🛠️ Title: Gaffer
🦊️ What's: A libre VFX tool for designing attractive scenes in 3D or 2D
🏡️ https://www.gafferhq.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/GafferHQ
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #GraphicsEditor #VFX #Compositing
📦️ #Libre #Arch
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.5.15.0
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/GafferHQ/gaffer/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/GafferHQ/gaffer/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/FsWm7ULi16c
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Edod6s93Ogk
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/lAgBcOFMf5k
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/q7shTtN8c1M
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtjDbAHbPuE

🕶️ A view of its UI (taken from the site, on a dark theme) with a scene being displayed on the main part (a small blue toy robot in a cluttered scene reminiscent of an attic, and a small white sphere representing the lighting with its vectors illustrating the rays of light), the graph of the scene in the window below (‘Graph Editor’ tab) and 2 other parameter-setting windows on the right-hand side.

📚️ Gaffer is a libre, multiplatform, flexible, node-based VFX tool that allows image developers, lighting designers and compositors to easily design, adjust, iterate and render compelling 3D or 2D scenes. In particular, it allows users to design and modify scenes of arbitrary complexity by performing numerous operations non-destructively, and to build advanced shaders (via node plug-ins combined with standard Arnold, Cycles, 3Delight and Tractor shaders, and its Open Shading Language or Python). Logic, filters and expressions can be used to create scalable node networks for automated and responsive VFX solutions.

🛠️ Title: Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code)
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://code.visualstudio.com
🐣️ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE #Telemetry
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.100.0➜1.101.0
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases.atom

🦝️https://www.youtube.com/embed/KMxo3T_MTvY
🦝️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/t_-6ECeFf_0
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yi1iIM-B7XQ
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-s71n0dHUk

🕶️ A view of its UI with on the top right part the code editing showing syntax highlighting, suggestions when entering code, and structuring of the code in nested levels, underneath a message area showing the successful compilation of the current code, on the left an area showing a wide range of extensions for language support, debugging and other tools, and on the very top as well as on the far left the editor's menus.

📚️ Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code) is a libre, multi-platform code editor that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their editing, building, and debugging cycle, and leaves more complex workflows to more comprehensive IDEs, such as the Visual Studio IDE. It offers full support for editing, navigating and understanding code, as well as lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model and lightweight integration with existing tools. Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license.

🛠️ Title: Babylon.js
🦊️ What's: A libre powerful, simple, game and rendering engine integrated into a JavaScript framework
🏡️ https://www.babylonjs.com
🐣️ https://github.com/BabylonJS
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #LibreEngine #Rendering #Typescript
📦️ #Libre
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 8.9.0➜8.12.1
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/master/CHANGELOG.md
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/releases.atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/kKaomUggipQ
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLS9MbmO_ssyCT1KHSi1GYX73ayv_9GusY
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HG5FDOPgskw
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/RIs0URMKDRY

🛠️ Title: Aseprite
🦊️ What's: A free/commercial image editor for 2D drawing & anim in pixel art
🏡️ https://www.aseprite.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/aseprite
🦉️ https://mastodon.art/@aseprite
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #VFX #SpriteEditor
📦️ #Commercial #Free #Arch #RPM
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.3.14
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://community.aseprite.org/t/aseprite-v1-3-14/25678
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/releases.atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/4emFL4aV9WM
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLzxpE8pcEoUQzQ9nf8V7lPmNE-q8PpsFo
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/qOSIEgg_aEc
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/IzJ1NiZeHcM

🕶️ A view of its UI (v.1.3.8.1) while editing an image retrieved from mastodon (image credit: datagoblin, https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@datagoblin/113177155024915255, showing a little cat in Satan's arms and entitled ‘protip: satan hates it when you solve puzzles’) and a preview window.

📚️ Aseprite is a free (redistribution forbidden) / paid, multi-platform image editor for 2D drawing and animation (animated sprites) in pixel art (pixel by pixel). It offers various tools for editing images and animations (layers, frames, tilemap, Lua scripts, ...) and allows export to different file formats (PNG, GIF, FLC, FLI, JPEG, PCX, TGA & bitmap). To store its data, it uses a specific binary format (.ase or .aseprite) supported by several programming languages & game engines.

🛠️ Title: OpenMoonRay
🦊️ What's: A libre MCRT (Monte Carlo Ray Tracing) rendering engine
🏡️ https://openmoonray.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Compositing #Animation #Modeling
📦️ #Libre #Arch
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 1.7.0.0➜2.15.0.1
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray/releases
🦣️ From: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/114676212985992409

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/86DW_M38rcE
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ozd4JqquG3k
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/T_zTqa58Wo0
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DbSxH_b30JQ

🕶️ A view of what should be (image retrieved from Twitter, the site gives no screenshot) its UI. A UI on a dark theme with on the main part the rendered scene (a room full of treasures, highlighting reflections, shadows and lighting effects) and all around the settings boxes with rendering graph, timeline, many tabs and menus.

📚️ OpenMoonRay is a libre, multi-platform MCRT (Monte Carlo Ray Tracing) rendering engine. It is developed and maintained by DreamWorks Animation for all of its feature film production. It is a state-of-the-art tool including a vast library of production-tested physical materials, a USD (Universal Scene Description) Hydra (interactive pre-visualization renderer) delegate, distributed/multi-machine rendering (optimized to use all the cores of a machine to the maximum, and able to switch from GPU to CPU if needed) and cloud-based via the Arras distributed computing framework.

🛠️ Title: ioQuake3
🦊️ What's: A libre & robust Quake 3 engine
🏡️ https://ioquake3.org
🐣️ https://github.com/ioquake
🦉️ https://mastodon.social/@ioquake3
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #FPS #ArenaShooter #ESport #Quake3
📦️ #LibreEngine #CommercialAssets #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak
📕️ 🦺️ Our site is temporarily unavailable

🥁️ Update: 06102025
⚗️ No changelog 🙈️🙉️🙊️
📌️ Changes: https://ioquake3.org/ioquake3/linux-and-windows-ioquake3-builds-updated/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://ioquake3.org/feed/

🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/_G5E4pqolGU
💎 https://www.youtube.com/embed/tY9DhuEe1WY
💎 https://www.youtube.com/embed/akQGDJpY26w

🕶️ An FPS view of a room stained with blood and human remains at the end of the game, the opponent has been eliminated, a futuristic weapon is accessible, the UI displays “You fragged Major 2nd place with 3”.

📚️ ioQuake3 is a libre and multi-platform engine derived from id Software's id Tech 3 engine (freed in 2005, used notably by Quake 3 Arena, Call of Duty and Medal of Honor), which it improves, while preserving compatibility with the initial games. The goal of the project is to offer a libre, multi-platform, and robust Quake 3 engine, fixing a number of bugs and supporting modern hardware. It can thus be used for new games, while allowing the port of old games.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social

Version: 2025.04

Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst