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#LinuxGameDev

🛠️ Title: GB Studio
🦊️ What's: A libre game creator for making Game Boy games
🏡️ https://www.gbstudio.dev/
🐣️ https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio
🦉️https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gameboyscene
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #GameBoy
📦️ #LibreGameMaker #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 4.2.0-beta3
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/releases.atom

🏝️(4.0) https://www.youtube.com/embed/sS-7wMP7qtE
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/OsUQgbB3jw0
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLEeET_LWnAgvQs6TexUttMyuwmuPm81Dc&index=2
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ar5gdK7SfDM
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/WCNEM_EoLsE

🕶️ A view of its user interface with a game under development. The center of the screen shows the scene, in the foreground a game execution window (a little girl in front of an elephant), on the right a banner with a scroll bar shows, among other things, a set of functions for defining a parallax background, at the bottom a banner with windows for debugging.

📚️ GB Studio is a libre, multi-platform game development tool for the Game Boy. It makes it extremely easy to design games without any programming knowledge, by drag-and-dropping scripts, combined with graphics (in PNG format) designed from its graphics editor, and sounds via its music editor (tracker). Users can thus design games for the Game Boy that can be played on an emulator, or flashed on a GB memory cartridge.

🛠️ 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: 1.107.18627 (=vsc 1.107.1)➜1.108.20787 (=vsc 1.108.2)
⚗️ Patch 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: Tahoma2D
🦊️ What's: A libre, professional-quality 2D bitmap and vector animation tool
🏡️ https://tahoma2d.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/tahoma2d
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #VFX #MotionGraphics
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.6-beta.1
⚗️ Major release (Unst.)🍏️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/tahoma2d/tahoma2d/releases
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.world/@tahoma2d/116001144115289701

🐹️ 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: FNA
🦊️ What's: A libre & accurate re-implementation of Microsoft's XNA Game Studio libraries, for game dev
🏡️ https://fna-xna.github.io
🐣️ https://github.com/FNA-XNA
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #Framework
📦️ #Libre #Arch
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 26.02
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/FNA-XNA/FNA/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/FNA-XNA/FNA/releases.atom

🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/LD_ZfWYuUHE
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/yiSrckIHYZA

🛠️ 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: 0.217.3➜0.221.5
⚗️ Huge. vers. 🦬️
📌️ Changes: https://zed.dev/releases/stable
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases.atom

🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/2e7SkqzBAYk
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z-KhZHVut1c
🕵️ 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: OGRE
🦊️ What's: A libre 3D graphics engine
🏡️ https://www.ogre3d.org
🐣️ https://github.com/OGRECave
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #GraphicsEngine
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update (stable/OGRE): 14.5.2
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/releases
https://www.ogre3d.org/news
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/releases.atom

🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/FvGFq0ou1L4
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/eGlg3yzLipE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xd1XnmwD8zE
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/idegV1zO0KA
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/EljXnVDHwwI
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/HH_sGQRSpzo

🛠️ Title: CudaText
🦊️ What's: A mature libre code editor supporting 250+ programming languages
🏡️ https://cudatext.github.io/
🐣️ https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Programming #Editor
📦️ #Libre #Arch #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.231.5➜1.232.0.1
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://cudatext.github.io/history.txt
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/2wcNHMufGNs
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/q8edzSd400Y

🕶️ A view of its UI with at the top the menus and associated icons, below and on the right the code entry zone (in the example, in FreePascal) with its tab and the possibility to open others (sign "+"), on the left a tree structure with the list of classes, at the bottom some indicators (cursor position, editor language, ...).

📚️ CudaText is a mature libre, multi-platform code editor (derived from the SynWrite editor) supporting over 250 programming languages. It has a feature-rich parser (based on the EControl engine), a code tree (for structuring functions, classes, ...), a code folding system, allows multi-caret editing and multi-selection, regular expression find and replace, auto-completion for HTML and CSS, ... and is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools).

🛠️ Title: Cardinal
🦊️ What's: A libre virtual modular synthesizer
🏡️ https://cardinal.kx.studio/
🐣️ https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
🦉️ https://mastodon.falktx.com/@falktx
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Music #Synthesizer
📦️ #Libre #Browser-version #Bin #Arch
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 26.01
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases.atom

🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HapldC7rROc
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/GNTGF_r36lk
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DqVvtlNUll0
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/-WJBToOjUhA
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HE4sGQqIFm0

🕶️ A view of its UI (in a dark theme) with its various modules arranged on a rack and connected to each other by cable links.

📚️ A libre, multi-platform virtual modular synthesizer, working as an audio plugin (with support for CLAP, LV2, VST2 and VST3 protocols) or as a standalone version for some systems. It is based on the popular VCV Rack from which it has removed non-free elements, external modules and other connections to the store, to provide a libre, self-contained and reliable version.

🛠️ 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 #Bin #Arch
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.6.9.0/1&1.6.10.0
⚗️ Huge 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: Babylon.js
🦊️ What's: A libre powerful, simple, game & rendering engine integrated into a JavaScript framework
🏡️ https://www.babylonjs.com
🐣️ https://github.com/BabylonJS
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #LibreEngine #Rendering #Typescript
📦️ #Libre
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 8.47.0➜8.49.6
⚗️ Huge vers. 🦬️
📌️ 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/f3_g1QEvRxA
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLS9MbmO_ssyCT1KHSi1GYX73ayv_9GusY
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HG5FDOPgskw
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/RIs0URMKDRY

🛠️ 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: 2510.2
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️
📌️ Changes: https://www.docs.o3de.org/docs/release-notes/2510-2-release-notes/
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/115990409014997538

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

🕶️ 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: GDevelop
🦊️ What's: A libre/fremium game engine w/ a low learning curve
🏡️ https://gdevelop-app.com
🐣️ https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop
🦉️ https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gdevelop
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #LibreEngine #EasyToUse
📦️ #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 5.6.253/4
⚗️ Huge vers. 🦬️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop/releases
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/115990409014997538

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/BLMIwuAiaXE
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/va9GqIbK_SA
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/p8c8k1JETKA
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/QC4L2oeXYRs

🕶️ A view of its user interface (v.5.6.249, on a dark theme, taken from the website) with the game scene in the center of the screen (2/3 of the screen, representing a water recreation area with a predominance of blue) and the settings menus on either side, with the main icons, buttons, and tabs above.

📚️ GDevelop is a libre (with additional paid features), multi-platform, mature, game engine & IDE, dedicated to the creation of multi-platform and/or HTML5 2D (and even 3D) games without programming knowledge, via an intuitive and powerful event-based system. The games created are royalty-free and license-free. In addition to its event-based system, it implements the JavaScript language to allow advanced users to extend its possibilities. It offers a resource manager (images, sounds, fonts, and access to a resource pack store), a scene editor (to position objects), an object editor (object creation), a layer editor (display layers), and an event editor (conditions & actions).

🕹️ Title: Open Surge
🦊️ What's: A libre game & engine inspired by Sonic
🏡️ https://opensurge2d.org
🐣️ https://github.com/alemart/opensurge
🔖 #LinuxGaming #LinuxGameDev #Platformer #Sonic
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 0.6.1.3
⚗️ Major release (Unst.)🍏️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/alemart/opensurge/releases
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/115990409014997538

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/LQMQEft2gRM
🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/gJgCVMUwEt4
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/nCH7xeZp2hQ
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/d0sUjm4ZpA0
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLh4SeuQ1MWqqWbqDfeXSXe6nqo3n5q-1S

🕶️ A view of its UI on my PC (version 0.5.1.1) at the start of the game, with Surge the rabbit avoiding a wolf by jumping over it, near a waterfall. The graphics are very colorful (predominantly orange).

📚️ Open Surge is a libre and multi-platform platform game and engine, inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog. It is derived from the Open Sonic project (same authors). The content has been replaced by its libre equivalent (the rights on Sonic and its environment are held by SEGA). It allows not only to play but also to create games via its integrated editor and its scripting engine. It also offers 11 great levels with a varied bestiary, language support, several soundtracks, full screen and windowed in different sizes and gamepad support.

🛠️ Title: dhewm3
🦊️ What's: A libre & improved engine for Doom 3 & its mods
🏡️ https://dhewm3.org
🐣️ https://github.com/dhewm
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #LibreEngine #Doom
📦️ #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.5.5 RC2
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/releases
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/115990409014997538

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/j8NaZZa54cs
🎲️👤️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/8A3g4FuV5-M?start=1028
🎲️👥️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/tpTeh6PmvEc
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lnr5wbzFBOU

🕶️ An FPS view of the DOOM 3 game running on the dhewm3 engine (v. 1.5.2 RC1, on my Linux PC). The player advances armed with a rifle through a messy, blood-stained futuristic hall, firing at a monster that is half base guard - half monster with one arm reduced to a tentacle. A 'Settings' window has been opened in the foreground, with the 'Video Options' tab activated, giving access to a number of graphical settings.

📚️ dhewm3 is a libre, multi-platform, and improved engine for Doom 3 (his engine - named id Tech 4, was freed by id Software / John Carmack on November 22, 2011), its Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil DLC and other compatible Mods. It brings notably bug fixes, support for 64-bit processors, SDL and OpenGL graphics, OpenAL and OpenAL EFX audio (for reverb effects), High DPI screens (and exotic resolutions), and the gamepad.

🛠️ Title: Eclipse Theia & Theia IDE
🦊️ What's: A libre framework for Cloud & Desktop tools & a libre IDE
🏡️ https://theia-ide.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/eclipse-theia/
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Programming #Framework #IDE
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Browser-version #Arch #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.68
⚗️ Huge vers. 🦬️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/releases.atom

💥️🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/wzB0ZCwdhDs
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/1u9_RqNyFvY
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/wGJHwc5ksMA
💥️ 🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/ez-IXhNk_yE

🕶️ A view of its UI (on a light theme, on my PC) with an example of source code (that of the game The Maze Of Galious remake, in C++) on the main part in the centre (the layout of its UI is flexible, you can also detach its windows), above the 'Welcome' and current source tabs, at the top its main menus, on the left other menu icons and the project/file explorer, on the right the memory explorer (I didn't use it in my example).

📚️ Eclipse Theia (since 2018 a project of the Eclipse Foundation) is a libre, multi-platform, flexible and extensible framework for the development of IDEs and Cloud and Desktop tools using web technologies.
Theia IDE is a libre, multi-platform, non-intrusive IDE based on this technology, enabling it to run on the desktop or in the browser. It uses the LSP (Language Server Protocol) and DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) protocols, and the Monaco code editor, and is compatible with VS Code extensions (3,600 extensions), all the while being libre, open, and privacy-friendly.

🛠️ Title: Krita
🦊️ What's: A libre raster graphics editor
🏡️ https://krita.org
🐣️ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita
🦉️ https://mastodon.art/@krita
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #GraphicsEditor
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 5.2.15
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.2.15-released/
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.art/@Krita/115972584508235821

🏝️(5.0) https://www.youtube.com/embed/fga5f3ixmVo
🐹️(5.0) https://www.youtube.com/embed/jE02xGd2CCY
💎(5.2.2) https://www.youtube.com/embed/t81PkQwf7NM

🕶️ Its user interface (v. 5.2.11) on a dark theme, showing a drawing (a collage I made on Krita's user interface) created on Krita by artist jimplex (Jim McNeill). The work is titled “Young Escherstein!” (https://krita-artists.org/t/young-escherstein/142098). This is a fusion tribute to Young Frankenstein and M.C. Escher's work Relativity, showing different scenes from films from different perspectives in a house with numerous staircases that alter the viewing perspective (based on his work “House with Staircases”).

📚️ Krita is a libre, and multi-platform raster graphics editor for photo editing, freehand image creation, vector drawing and animation. In particular, it supports graphics tablets (handling pressure, tilt and rate), CMYK colors, HDR painting, color mixing and image deformation. It has a perspective grid, pluggable brush engines (simulating real brushes) and can use external brushes resources (those of Gimp for example)or community-designed textures. Its other major strength is that it combines power and ease of use.

🛠️ Title: Qt Creator
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE for designing apps using Qt
🏡️ https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Creator
🐣️ https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/
🐣️ https://github.com/qt-creator
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #IDE #C++
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 18.0.1/2
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/zAqSiIGdj8M
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTyRskMrp0k
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/H2ud-ATLIdI
🕯️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PL8ThI0DA8FbUBpEihprYsoQJSbcLm40nZ

🕶️ A view of its UI (launched from my PC) with its menus on either side of the screen, and in the center, other menus (Create project, Open project, ...), with examples of applications that the user can examine at leisure.

📚️ Qt Creator is a libre, multi-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing applications based on the Qt framework (a framework for designing multi-platform graphical user interfaces). It supports C++, QML and ECMAscript, and includes among other things an editor (with navigation tools, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, code checking, context-sensitive help, code folding and parenthesis mapping), a debugger (with breakpoints, call stack and variable display), and a GUI creation tool.

🛠️ Title: Godot Engine
🦊️ What's: A libre game engine & IDE
🏡️ https://www.godotengine.org
🐣️ https://github.com/godotengine
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #LibreEngine
📦️ #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 4.6
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://godotengine.org/releases/4.6/
🦣️ From: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dk-7ODrWhS0

🩳️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HEVSbzDEZ_g
🐹️https://www.youtube.com/embed/chXAjMQrcZk
💎4.5 https://www.youtube.com/embed/KriNqW-qzk0
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hzkr4pAoHVE
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ZwEmxihlw4
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/gPENs56vfYk
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxpRAmEG7g

🕶️ Its user interface (v. 4.6, with a dark theme, image taken from the authors' website) with a 3D game currently in development displayed in the center of its interface. In Godot, numerous windows and settings are displayed on either side of the screen. Everything is configurable, including the layout of its interface and the internalization or externalization of the game window.

📚️ Godot Engine is a high-performance, libre (very permissive MIT license, no hidden fees), multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine and IDE, extremely feature-rich with a vast set of tools, enabling the developer to create his multi-platform game from scratch without requiring any external tools other than the usual content creation tools (graphics and sound; it includes a tile map editor), and to concentrate on his game without having to reinvent the wheel. It also features an intuitive scripting language (GDScript, inspired by Python and other languages) and can be used with most programming languages.

🛠️ Title: GIMP
🦊️ What's: A libre raster graphics editor
🏡️ https://www.gimp.org
🐣️ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
🦉️ https://floss.social/@GIMP
🦉️ https://fosstodon.org/@zemarmot
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #VFX #GraphicsEditor
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 3.0.8
⚗️ Huge vers. 🦬️
📌️ Changes: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/01/24/gimp-3-0-8-released/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/tags?format=atom

🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqOhys5f3K8
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lc76VW-Uz1w
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/s-iKxeIZ4PM

🕶️ A view of its user interface (v.3.2.0 RC2, with a dark theme, on my Linux PC) with its beautiful and very professional home screen, which features an image of the Milky Way, simplified quick access buttons, and a few links. On the left side of the interface are selection tools, painting tools, brush adjustment tools, etc. On the right side (adaptable to the user's needs and selections), various brushes allow for quick image composition, and below that, the layers area where all overlapping images can be displayed or hidden. At the top of the screen, text menus provide access to all tool functions.

📚️ GIMP is a libre, and multi-platform raster graphics editor for the artistic creation of freehand images (supporting graphic tablets), photo retouching, or creation of animated images, with a wide range of tools (150 filters, format conversion, selection, transformation, filling, cloning, layers, masks, brushes, pencils, airbrush, ...). Its plugin and scripting system allows it to increase its capabilities and automate certain tasks. It is a quality tool continuously improved and put to the test in various projects.

🛠️ Title: Defold
🦊️ What's: A free 2D/3D game engine & IDE
🏡️ https://defold.com/
🐣️ https://github.com/defold
🦉️ https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@defold
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #FreeGameEngine
📦️ #Free #Src #Bin #Arch #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.12.0
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-0-has-been-released/82214
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/defold/defold/releases.atom

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/paNVnAIVkgk
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/-3CzCbd4QZ0
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/aYGxAoT9dX8
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvUCciulwOE
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/q7MYQhfuzKk

🕶️ A view of its UI (on a dark theme) quite classical with in the center and on the biggest part of the screen the view of the game under development (a fantasy type scene with a medieval house in 2.5D or 3D? and a fire circle on its terrace), and on both sides of the scene some setting areas and other property boxes. In the foreground of the scene, an interface that the user is setting up with about ten activated boxes related to the game GUI.

📚️ Defold is a free and multi-platform engine / IDE for 2D/3D game development for consoles, PC, mobiles & websites, focused on simplicity and performance. There is nothing to install or configure, not even when creating the deliverable. It offers a turnkey solution with all the necessary tools (visual editor, code editor, Lua game logic, Lua debugger, scene editor, particle editor, tile-based map editor), including the ability to create complex behaviors from basic elements, extend the engine with native code, build in the cloud without configuration, and add new features from a resource portal.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social

Version: 2025.07

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