Godot
Never arrives onstage
Godot has two distinct meanings in contemporary usage.
From Samuel Beckett's play *Waiting for Godot*, the name represents something or someone endlessly awaited but never arriving: We've been waiting for this software update like it's Godot.
Separately, Godot is an open-source game engine popular with independent developers, named with a nod to Beckett's play.
Believer in cosmic meaninglessness
- VladimirMasculine Slavic name
- LuckyAuspicious pet moniker
- tragicomedyGenre blending sorrow and mirth
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Samuel Beckett · theater · meaninglessness · dialogue · two-act · 1953 · Nobel Prize · Irish
Framework for building interactive software
- open sourcePublicly accessible code
- indieProduced outside majors
- 2DTwo-dimensional
- 3DThree-axis spatial representation
nodes · scenes · development · programming · cross-platform · tutorial · editor · export
absurdist
Believer in cosmic meaninglessness
- VladimirMasculine Slavic name
- LuckyAuspicious pet moniker
- tragicomedyGenre blending sorrow and mirth
existentialism · Samuel Beckett · theater · meaninglessness · dialogue · two-act · 1953 · Nobel Prize · Irish · French
game engine
Framework for building interactive software
- open sourcePublicly accessible code
- indieProduced outside majors
- 2DTwo-dimensional
3D · nodes · scenes · development · programming · cross-platform · tutorial · editor · export · sprites
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- arrivalAct of reaching destination
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- delayEnforced waiting period
hope · patience · uncertainty · absence · futility · promise · tomorrow · endless · vigil · postponement
- absurdist comedyabsurdity, non sequitur, nonsense, paradox, incongruity
- Stage CharactersHamlet, Ophelia, Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth
- game dev toolsgame engine, game engines, Unity, GameMaker, Source
- game enginesUnity, Source, GameMaker, Snowdrop, Unreal
- Software Enginesgame engine, graphics engine, physics engine, Unreal
- Creative SoftwarePhotoshop, Blender, GIMP, After Effects, Maya
Godotdeus ex machina
Unlikely last-minute story rescue
Hamlet · protagonist · closure · Santa Claus · answered prayer
- oh my godCasual shock exclamation
- oh, my GodExclamation of astonishment
- my GodExclamation of shock
- thank GodRelieved pious exclamation
- God bless youSneeze acknowledgment phrase
- God forbidExpression against unwanted outcomes
God, gods, godly, godliness, ungodly, goddess, godhood, godlike, godless