This Week in Godot #22

Hello everyone, welcome to the #22 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

• Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?
• Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3
• Godot Live Q&A with engine developers – February 2021 Youtube Video

News

• Gotm.io Jam #2 ($100 Prizes)
• New 'Godot Effects and Shaders' Discord Server

Miscellaneous

• Godotes - Changes
• Top 5 Weekly Games [E11] - GOTM JAM #1 - gotm.io

Tutorials

• How to use Noise Textures and create simple Shaders in Godot Source Code Youtube Video
• Godot 2D — Light in the Darkness (Tutorial) Youtube Video
• HowTo: A Simple Dialogue System in Godot Article
• Use unit vectors to align standard grids to hex-grids
• Make Your Menu Look Better with Tweens IN 5 MINUTES [How2Godot] Youtube Video
• 2D Dissolve Effect : Visual Shader Youtube Video
• Paint blood realistically in 8mins like super meat boy Source Code Youtube Video
• Godot Stylized Clouds in 3 MINUTES Youtube Video
• Introduction | Pong GDScript Basics | Ep 00 Youtube Video
• Drag and Drop Inventory System | Godot Tutorial Youtube Video

Libraries Assets and Add-ons

• VHS and CRT monitor effect
• PixelDot: godot plugin for making 2D sandbox games like Terraria and Starbound Source Code
• Godot Flash Plugin: add Adobe Animate animation support for Godot Engine Source Code

DevLogs

• Deadly Monsters, Hazards, Levels - Godot Devlog 05 Youtube Video
• When things go wrong: Keeping Sanity - Godot Steam Indie Game Devlog ep 5 Youtube Video
• [Russian] Дневник разработки игры на Godot Engine || devlog#00 Youtube Video
• Selfloss Devlog #1(ENG) - Game concept and story Youtube Video
• Going Native and Procedural Ingredients (Galactic Chef Devlog #4) Youtube Video

Made with Godot

• Getting Started with Material Maker 0.94 Source Code Youtube Video
• Conway's interesting game of life
• Island Artist: an exploration painting game
• Luck be a Landlord: a roguelike deckbuilder
• Mahjong Single: a free mahjong solitaire game
• ColoRise
• Moon Runner
• Hack Grid: a puzzle game & love letter to DOS gaming
• Tetris with Physics
• Dimension Tension: a game about Dimension Swapping
• Malbots Begone: a falling-blocks puzzle game
• ColorPalettizer: Create color palette using node system that allows generating gradients with curves

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