Someone made a Godot-style game editor for the ESP32-S3

Summary

• Jet Studio delivers a Godot-like editor for building and flashing 2D/3D games to the ESP32-S3.

• Demos hit high frame rates: a 2D shooter hit 85 FPS, an Outrun-style racer at 65 FPS, and a 3D physics test at 55 FPS.

• The editor has a scene tree, Inspector, 2D/3D views, gizmos, script editor, signals, AnimationPlayer, and build/flash tools.

People have been making some really cool gaming projects for their ESP32s lately, but what if you want to make your own? Well, this one seems to be a fantastic way to do just that. A Redditor has shown off what they've been working on, and it allows people to develop their own titles for the microcontroller with some pretty impressive frame rates.

Jet Studio brings a Godot-like experience to ESP32 game dev

Its games can hit 60 FPS or more

Over on the ESP32 subreddit, user fedyfaustoITA revealed Jet Studio, a Godot-like project that lets you make games for your Arduino Nano ESP32 with an ILI9341 SPI display. You build the game on your PC, and when it starts looking good, you can deploy the same game to your ESP32 to play.

The claimed performance looks pretty great, with a 2D shooter hitting around 85 FPS, an Outrun-styled racer clocking in at 65 FPS, and a 3D physics demo at 55 FPS.

The editor itself comes with some really nice features:

The editor: scene tree, Inspector, 2D and 3D views with Godot's move/rotate/scale gizmos, script editor, Godot-style signals, tweens and an AnimationPlayer with a timeline, nodes for sprites, 2D/3D physics, particles, Timer and HUD labels, a serial monitor, and a RAM estimate before building. Build & Flash use PlatformIO / ESP-IDF.

If you'd like to see more examples of Jet Studio in action, or you want to give it a spin for yourself, head over to the GitHub repo for all the details.