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I saw a project on here a while ago that used Godot to make a desktop app. Godot is a “game” engine, but the app posted to HN was a business application. I thou

I saw a project on here a while ago that used Godot to make a desktop app. Godot is a “game” engine, but the app posted to HN was a business application. I thought it was interesting to use a game engine to make a business app, it actually looked quite good. I wish I still had the link.

farseer 5y ago
You know WebGL may replace HTML for user interfaces one day especially if coupled with a VR headset. But you would still need Chromium for a unified cross platform experience. It's not hard to imagine bloody minded developers running a business app on Godot, inside a WebGL canvas on Chromium all packaged in an electron framework :)
- hitpointdrew 5y ago
  I am no Godot expert. But from the documentation it seems like you can compile and cross compile for other platforms without the need for electron. The exception being for Mac/iOS, which requires Xcode to compile, so if you wanted to compile for all platforms you would need Mac.
lucraft 5y ago
This is related, and has a couple examples down the bottom https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
zozbot234 5y ago
A "game" app like that sounds horrible for accessibility. How can this be appropriate to a business environment where any users might require special accommodation at some point.
- dartharva 5y ago
  Sorry, I'm not very educated in this regard but how would it being developed in a game dev environment make it any less customisable for accessibility than an app developed in anything else?
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
    I know this might sound weird, but it's very hard to play videogames if you are blind (I suspect there might be some "audiogames")
Aeolun 5y ago
A quick search gives me Godello: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

farseer 5y ago

You know WebGL may replace HTML for user interfaces one day especially if coupled with a VR headset. But you would still need Chromium for a unified cross platform experience. It's not hard to imagine bloody minded developers running a business app on Godot, inside a WebGL canvas on Chromium all packaged in an electron framework :)

hitpointdrew 5y ago
I am no Godot expert. But from the documentation it seems like you can compile and cross compile for other platforms without the need for electron. The exception being for Mac/iOS, which requires Xcode to compile, so if you wanted to compile for all platforms you would need Mac.

lucraft 5y ago

This is related, and has a couple examples down the bottom https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...

zozbot234 5y ago

A "game" app like that sounds horrible for accessibility. How can this be appropriate to a business environment where any users might require special accommodation at some point.

dartharva 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not very educated in this regard but how would it being developed in a game dev environment make it any less customisable for accessibility than an app developed in anything else?
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y ago
  I know this might sound weird, but it's very hard to play videogames if you are blind (I suspect there might be some "audiogames")

Aeolun 5y ago

A quick search gives me Godello: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello