Hello everyone, welcome to the second issue of This Week in Godot, Godot is a popular Free and Open Source game development engine and toolset. And this is a weekly overview of what happened the past week in the Godot engine and its community right in your email. I'll try to cover the most relevant news, releases, games, tools, and anything else relevant. Please, if you have any recommendations or, any idea you can send me an email to albizures@vk.com or, even better, you can open a PR in GitHub.

Official

• Hugo Locurcio is hired to improve Godot's web infrastructure - New Improvements for GPUParticles v4

DevLog

• Dewdrop Dynasty - Indie Game #1 Youtube Video
• Dialog system updates! - Dialogic #1 Youtube Video

Made with Godot

• PixelOrb Source Code
• Farmer Supreme! (Kickstarter campaign)
• Staff Only
• TicTacTie game over LAN Source Code

Tutorial

• Making Animated PIXEL ART in REAL TIME Source Code Youtube Video
• Tilemaps in 1 minute Youtube Video
• How to make portals quickly for your game Source Code Youtube Video
• Invisibility shader breakdown Source Code Article
• How To Make a FPS Source Code Youtube Video
• Multitarget Camera2D Youtube Video
• Pause and keybindings in game tutorial Source Code Youtube Video

Miscellaneous

• 128k objects vs 704k entities
• Unofficial branding redesign for the Godot game engine
• SayWhat: Branching dialogue
• Cartographer release v0.9.0 with full PBR support and masked blending
• Testing CPUParticles collision sphere and box v4
• godot-rust release v0.9.0

(Some) Ludum Dare #47 Entries

Sorry if your game is not here, but there are so many entries and, these are the games that I managed to find or appeared on my newsfeed

• DEATH STRING Source Code
• Grave Juice
• Mission ∞ Source Code
• Shafted Source Code
• Light footsteps after the rain
• Amusement Shark
• The final loop Source Code
• Unholy Echo
• Grind Source Code
• Rat Inc
• Mazed Robot
• Into the Iron Mist