Godot Engine on Raspberry Pi

Introduction

Godot is a free and open source community-driven 2D and 3D game engine!

You can find the documentation here:

Godot Docs Last stable release of Godot Engine

Install the Engine

Click on Godot download page and install the linux - arm64 version of the engine. You will need to scroll down to “All downloads” section. You’ll get an archive file like Godot_v4.5.1-stable_linux.arm64.zip. Extract the only file held by the archive: in this case is Godot_v4.5.1-stable_linux.arm64.

Rename it as godot4, then move it to /opt/godot directory:

sudo mv Godot_v4.5.1-stable_linux.arm64 /opt/godot/godot4

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Download the Godot icon from here: godot icon_color.png and move it into /opt/godot/ directory. You can also use the following commands:

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://godotengine.org/assets/press/icon_color.png
sudo mv icon_color.png /opt/godot

Create the desktop entity

cd /usr/share/applications

sudo nano godot.application

The content of the file is:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Godot Engine
GenericName=Libre Game Engine
Comment=Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Exec=/opt/godot/godot4
Icon=/opt/godot/icon_color.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;IDE;Game;
StartupWMClass=Godot

Save and update the desktop application database:

update-desktop-database

Outro

You can now follow Godot Engine tutorials!