This Week in Godot #38

June 19, 2021Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #38 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

Godot Engine in Godot Engine

Godot Web progress report #8: Progressive Web Apps One-click Progressive Web Apps are coming to Godot, along with easier testing for your HTML5 exports.

Godot Engine in Godot Engine

Tiles editor progress report #4 Tiles editor progress report #4, with tiles properties painting and scene-based tiles support.

Miscellaneous

Gonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

GMTK’s Game Jam 2021. Godot in numbers Godot was the second most used engine on the GMTK’s Game Jam, 2021 edition. There’s still time to vote for the games.

YouTube Arith metic in YouTube

1 year of game dev Yesterday marks the 1 year anniversary of when I started to do game dev youtube so I thought I’d celebrate it with a video covering the games I’ve made over ...

GitHub godotengine in GitHub

[proposals] Make physics nodes easier to understand Describe the project you are working on Godot Engine Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project Current state: After #2184 (physics nodes reorganization) has been implemented...

YouTube Red Cube Gamedev in YouTube

One color one day

YouTube Gotm in YouTube

All Praise Our Lord And Saviour RNJesus - Gotm.io Plays Your Games #20

YouTube GameDev Journey in YouTube

Godot vs Construct | Comparing a simple button click | Comparing Game Engines Which engine is the most intuitive? Which is easier to use? In this video we will hide and show a Sprite by clicking a button in Godot, Game Maker Studio 2 a...

YouTube CodingKaiju in YouTube

Godot 4.0 vs Unreal’s Lumen (& other news)

Tutorials

YouTube scriptblocks in YouTube

Recreate Stardew Valley in Godot: Machine Godot: This tutorial will show you how to recreate a Stardew Valley machine in Godot. We will go over creating the Main scene with a floor.

YouTube Ville in YouTube

Godot Tutorial: How to create a radio button In this video I show one way to create a radio button using BaseButton.

YouTube KryperDev in YouTube

How to create Overgrowth semi-procedural animation system in Godot [Part 2]In part 2 you will learn how to rotate character towards velocity, tilt him towards acceleration and also add bounce to his step.

YouTube Bypell in YouTube

How to Make a First Person Controller in Godot (for a horror game)

YouTube Dicode in YouTube

Create Lightning in Godot | Godot Tutorial I this video I have made Thunder lightning effect using Particle2D node, Timmer, and world environment. This lightning is fully random and thus looks real.

YouTube John Ivess in YouTube

Healthbars (Combat Essentials in Godot | P8)Making an animated healthbar in this episode of Combat Essentials Godot tutorial series!

YouTube jmbiv in YouTube

Locked Exits and Keys (Godot Retro Text Adventure Tutorial #12)In this tutorial we’ll create locked exits in our Godot retro text adventure game. We will also implement a use command for items so that we can use keys to ...

GitHub DrMoriarty in GitHub

Publication from Godot Engine to Mac AppStore

YouTube Snopek Games in YouTube

Godot and GitLab CI: Automatically notarize your game with Apple In this part, we setup GitLab CI to automatically notarize your game with Apple, before deploying it to Itch.io, Steam or any other deployment target.

YouTube RobThePole in YouTube

Godot Platformer Tutorial Episode 8 In this video we showed off the new changes to the game and made some quick small change to the player and added in the portal system to change between levels.

YouTube Dicode in YouTube

How to make enemy patrol in Godot || Dicode If you are creating a top down game then you will want to move your enemy in a certain path. Patrolling is a very important aspect of any game and with Godot...

YouTube iaknihs in YouTube

Godot Cone Collision — Light-Alarm Far as I could tell there was no inbuilt way to have scalable collision cones in Godot, so I made my own and synced it up with the range of a Spotlight node.

YouTube Ville in YouTube

Movable Virtual Joystick - Godot Demo In this video I share my unique solution for charecter control for 2D and 3D mobile games.

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

Wireless gamepad using websockets & accelerometer in GODOT In this second part on the accelerometer in Godot, I’m showing you how to turn your phone into a wireless gamepad, using websockets!

YouTube Gawe Game in YouTube

Kena Hit Saat Hero Menginjak Musuh - Bagian #12: Gawe Game Platformer 2D Video ke-12 dari seri tutorial pembuatan game platformer 2D dengan Godot.

Libraries Assets and Add-ons

YouTube Gamefromscratch in YouTube

Fracturing Godot. This Add-On Is Kinda Awesome Today we are looking at Fracture, an add-on/library for the Godot game engine that enables you to dynamically fracture 2D shapes.

YouTube TimKrief IndieDev in YouTube

New Amazing Materials!I found amazing public domain PBR (physically based rendering) materials and I added some to my virtual endless gallery.

arlez80 in Godot Shaders

Screen Noise Effect Shader

9Rituals in Godot Shaders

Variable Blur - Works with parallax layers Modified blur shader that can be used inside parallax background, just add a texture rect with the shader and ajust the values.

horhorou in Godot Shaders

Hit Flash Shader (Custom Color)

decembrist.org in Godot Asset Library

Decembrist Plugin for C#Utils for godot development: dependency injection, event driven development, lan events, etc.

CrushingJosch in Godot Asset Library

Shader Precompiler A small utility to precompile shaders in order to avoid game stuttering when objects first come into sight, and their shaders get lazily compiled.

DevLogs

YouTube Developing 4X in YouTube

Elections and Politics - 4X Devlog [2]

YouTube Strange Lake in YouTube

Indie Game Devlog 3 | Hidden Rooms And Tricky Traps!More progress means another video! Glad to have you here!

YouTube Emilio in YouTube

Dialogic versions 1.1 and 1.2 highlights - Devlog I wasn’t able to make an individual video for v1.1 before the v1.2 was released, so here you have what I think are the highlights of both updates in one vide...

YouTube WhoopsyELLO in YouTube

Godot Mesh Creator Plugin - Status Update/Showcase The plugin is getting more and more useable. Close to release it as an alpha on github

YouTube Sourish Basu in YouTube

Making a Game for GMTK Game Jam 2021 !!This Weekend i participated in my first ever GMTK game jam, and made a game called “Balance”.

YouTube assasin gamer in YouTube

SoulBound Devlog_04 Howdy everyone! My name is Justin and I make games for fun. Its been over a month since the last devlog and I have a lot to go through with you in this video...

YouTube John Ivess in YouTube

How I Developed Barking Irons (Wild West Shooter)

Made with Godot

itch.io Reineke in itch.io

OVOCAPER A game about collecting eggs!

itch.io Mr.Nekuromu in itch.io

Orbital Deterrent Squadron! Invasion!ODS has been scrambled to scout out a long approaching cluster of signals... what could be coming to visit Earth?!

YouTube Lihinel in YouTube

Ludus Sophiae - Bullet Spawner (Godot)Still implementing the basics in Godot.This time the video is about a bullet spawner for the space shooter/bullet hell minigame.

itch.io Solo Byte Games in itch.io

Godot Polygon 2D Fracture System Two simple scripts for fracturing and cutting polygons. PolygonFracture.gd is the actual script that fractures/cuts polygons.

YouTube Logical Progression in YouTube

Terra Ventura Announcement Trailer Terra Ventura is an action adventure game set in fantasy world with RPG elements. Release date is set for Q4 2021.

itch.io Spyrex in itch.io

Conductor A game about keeping an orchestra together.

itch.io Gallsy in itch.io

Telephone Trouble A Paper’s Please/Cook Serve Delicious like switch board management game. Connect as many calls as you can!

YouTube Chance. E in YouTube

Godot Sand Simulation Just a sneak peek of a sand simulation game I’m working on.

itch.io ErikTheBerik in itch.io

Joined Minds, Broken Bodies A Puzzle Platformer About Joining Other Objects

YouTube Bypell in YouTube

[VR] Godot 3.3.2 - Scene Running at 144hz on the Valve Index People need to stop saying godot is bad for 3D because of its “performance”. The scene I am showing off here is running at an extremely consistent 144fps.

YouTube NLB project // Adventure Indie Games in YouTube

Palladium: Adventure in Greece Palladium: Adventure in Greece -- first-person 3D adventure with companions

GGBot in Apps on Google Play

Bot Runner A retro, 8-bit style endless runner game

itch.io dunkelgrau in itch.io

Obgoose Be a goose. Be smart.

itch.io franopx in itch.io

Grow Your Way Out A platform game about water boy, who has to grow bushes to use as platforms to escape the cursed plants.

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