Can you add your own games to retropie?

[Johan_Liebert511]

And if than how and what language can I use? I want to make my first own game and want to play it on retropie.

[IanDaemon]

@johan_liebert511 Yes, this is what the "ports" menu is for. You can find instructions and lists of existing games very easily online.

[IanDaemon]

I don't mean to sound dismissive or curt. It's just that you can write software in a lot of languages. Your game should probably be able to run on Linux

I have no idea what hardware you have, but here's some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games.

[Clyde]

@johan_liebert511 There are already two threads with tome tips about creating your own games for RetroPie, see here and here.

Apart from that, a web search for "creating games for Linux" (or RetroPie) should yield similar discussions or guides in the net.

TL;DR: I'm not a developer myself, but the languages that are frequently recommended are Python (with PyGame), LÖVE, and C/C++.

[hiulit]

You can create your own games using the open-source Godot Engine https://godotengine.org and you can play them on RetroPie using a script I created to install an "emulator" https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Godot-Engine-Emulator

[IanDaemon]

@clyde You put the TL;DR at the end? So... people read everything before they get to your synopsis? English speakers read top to bottom.

[Clyde]

@iandaemon It referred to the linked threads and a web search. I assumed that even English speakers could make it through the three lines of text before it. 😉

[hiulit]

@hiulit you can even create your games on the Pi with these unofficial Godot builds https://github.com/hiulit/Unofficial-Godot-Engine-Raspberry-Pi