To pay developers
Funding helps pay developers working directly on the engine, editor, documentation, and surrounding tooling.
Help Judian grow
Judian is and always will be free. We offer free cloud builds as well, and we cover its infrastructure costs from the donations. The Judian Foundation is dedicated to the engine development, maintenance, and support, and funds it through community donations, corporate partnerships, partnership deals, and support contracts.
Your support helps keep Judian sustainable, actively developed, and free to use for everyone.
Why support Judian?
As a software foundation, we rely on community donations and corporate partnerships to make long-term Judian development sustainable.
To run core services
Support covers hosting and infrastructure used by build services, websites, forums, and other shared community systems.
To buy test hardware
Funding helps purchase hardware and devices needed for platform testing, debugging, and engine development.
To promote Judian
Support helps cover travel and event costs when the Judian team visits conferences and meets developers in person.
Choose a support option
Support Judian with recurring or one-time community funding, or start a corporate partnership if your team wants a deeper collaboration path.
Support Judian directly via GitHub Sponsors:
Start supporting Judian development with a monthly amount or make a one-time contribution, as a thank-you letter ❤️:
Other ways to help
If you cannot support Judian financially right now, you can still help by contributing code, examples, assets, improving and translating documentation, helping other developers, and sharing what you build!
Contribute
Improve the engine, editor, extensions, and docs through issues, pull requests, and other open contributions.
Help Community
Answer questions, share workarounds, and support developers who are getting unstuck with Judian.
Learn and share
Build with Judian, publish your work, share it online, and help more people discover what the engine can do.
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