Godot Engine

Small, fast-opening, genuinely free real-time engine under a permissive licence with no royalty and no company able to change the terms later. Smaller ecosystem and fewer industry integrations than Unreal or Unity — the right pick for learning, for tools a venue owns, and for anything that must still run in ten years.

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Protocols it speaks

Protocol	Direction	Notes
osc	bidirectional	Through community add-ons.

What to watch for

You will build more of the show-specific integration yourself than in the commercial engines. That is the trade for owning the result.

Typical use

Bespoke interactive tools an organisation needs to own outright
Learning how a real-time engine works
Small installations and exhibits

Sources

Godot Engine — Godot Foundation primary

Understand the mechanism

Node graphs and game engines Code on a show

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