This Week in Godot #41

July 10, 2021Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #41 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

YouTube Godot Engine in YouTube

Godot Live Q&A with engine developers – July 2021 July 2021’s live Q&A with core developers of Godot Engine!Tune in to a chat with core developers answering questions from Patreon supporters and from the liv...

News

GitHub godotengine in GitHub

Allow using the 3D editor’s View menu while previewing a camera by Calinou · Pull Request #50046 · godotengine/godot This is already allowed when using cinematic preview, but not when previewing a Camera3D the usual way.

u/DleanJeans in reddit

r/godot - Godot Engine has just hit 40 000 stars on GitHub 1 year and 2 months since 30 000 stars.106 votes and 4 comments so far on Reddit

Bakenshake in itch.io

Godot Wild Jam #35 A game jam from 2021-07-09 to 2021-07-22 hosted by Bakenshake. Welcome to the Godot Wild Jam which starts the second weekend of every month. Whether you’re a person who likes to go wild, a casual game developer, G...

Gotm.io in gotm.io

The results for GotmJam 6 are in!Gotm.io Jam #6 ($100 Prizes)

Miscellaneous

u/jwfrosty in reddit

Godot iPhone wallpapers

YouTube NewNoiseWorks in YouTube

The Promised Land Goes GodotCon!The Promised Land is super fortunate to have been given a spot at GodotCon 2021!Andre and Anand discuss the idea of building an open source game studio.

YouTube Snopek Games in YouTube

Game Dev Stream #14 - Experimenting with rollback network synchronization in Godot Come hang out while I do some game development on a live stream!This is the 5th stream in which we’ll be experimenting with rollback network synchronization ...

YouTube Redefine Gamedev in YouTube

Why VULKAN won’t FIX Godot 4’s 3D Godot 4 will arrive this year (2021). While it will bring a lot of changes, there are still simple things missing that might be pain points for current and f...

YouTube Aknakos in YouTube

FP: Godot 4 Auto LODs from imported meshes Feature Preview!In this video we check out Juans’ PR on auto LODs from imported meshes. This will be a more specific implementation of LODs compared to the l...

Tutorials

YouTube BitBirdy in YouTube

Creating a COMPLETE Dash Effect in Godot (Part 1)In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to build a dash mechanic with a ghost trail effect. In the Part 2 video, I’ll show you how to create a dust trail al...

YouTube Project Aviraj in YouTube

The Easiest Way to Make a Player-Tracking Camera in Godot! #shorts This is a quick tutorial/showoff of how easy Godot makes it to have the game camera follow the player character in a 2D scene.Coming from GameMaker, which is...

YouTube Game Code Samurai in YouTube

Godot Celeste Like 2D Physics (Part 5 - Jump & Fall Through Platforms)Welcome to part 5 of this series. This time we’re going to add a new ability for the platforms which is the ability to jump through them. In the second part ...

YouTube FinePointCGI in YouTube

Advanced Godot | Creating In-App Purchases Subscribe and learn more from me about Game Development and Programming!In this video, we go though the process of creating in app purchases! In this tutoria...

David Snopek in Snopek Games

Steam login to Nakama using Godot Nakama is a scalable Open Source game backend.

YouTube Agnis NeZvers Aldiņš in YouTube

[Godot] Raycast bullets & ricochet

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

Understanding The Godot Engine in 5 Minutes You want to start making games with the Godot game engine? In this video, we give you an introduction to the main concepts of Godot and set you up with usefu...

YouTube Thowsen Media in YouTube

WorldShaper Introduction - Godot Open World Terrain (alpha 0.6)WorldShaper is a 2D map painting and 3D terrain creation suite, which can work with heightmaps, colored maps an 3D meshes.It has support for arbitrarily larg...

YouTube Project Aviraj in YouTube

Building a Game Level in Under a Minute! #shorts This is a 50-second synopsis of how I designed a 16x16 tileset for my game in Godot and set up auto tiling to build a game level. Please do not mistake this ...

YouTube Gamedevboi in YouTube

3 Godot Tips for beginners that nobody teaches you Hey guys so I decided to experiment a little bit with some new type of content.

YouTube Gawe Game in YouTube

GUI pop-up ketika Hero kalah - Bagian #15: Gawe Game Platformer 2D Video ke-15 dari seri tutorial pembuatan game platformer 2D dengan Godot.

Libraries Assets and Add-ons

Roadmap in Rakugo

Rakugo Release 3.2.1 RC1 This update have some fixes and first Point&Click game feature.

GitHub GodotVR in GitHub

Release 1.1.0 of GDNative based Open VR module A new release!

GitHub GodotVR in GitHub

Release Godot XR Tools 2.1 of Godot XR Tools added option to highlight object that can be picked up

GitHub vini-guerrero in GitHub

Godot-Exporter Godot Engine Automation Pipeline Android – iOS – Linux – MacOS – Windows – HTML5 – Itch.io.

KubikPixel in Godot Shaders

SciFi Hologram A simple tweakeble SciFi Hologram spatial shader for 3D objects....

arlez80 in Godot Shaders

Procedural Cloth Wrinkles Shader Procedural Cloth Wrinkles Shader. Procedural generate normalmap.

blinks in Godot Shaders

2D Fog Overlay A simple fog overlay shader using fractal brownian motion.

Turtle in Godot Shaders

Particle Rope Something I originally made in garry’s mod and figured I’d...

vanviethieuanh in Godot Shaders

2D lightning This shader creates a lightning effect in the middle of the sprite.

deepgames in Godot Asset Library

Speedy Gonzales Custom software mouse cursor addon for Godot

deepgames in Godot Asset Library

EgoVenture First person point and click adventure framework for Godot

fenix in Godot Asset Library

GitHub Integration A complete GitHub integration for your Godot Editor! Manage your project without even opening your browser.

fenix in Godot Asset Library

Supabase API API Library to interact with your Supabase backend project.

DevLogs

YouTube mizpah in YouTube

Making my first isometric game, but I only have 30 days...I made my very first isometric game in 30 days!play the game here:mizpah93.itch.io/shotsI learned isometric game development in one month, making an isometri...

YouTube Giggio in YouTube

How I’m making a CREEPY third person version of Bomberman - Godot Devlog #0 This is the first episode of a devlog series about an indie game that I’m making using Godot. The game is called Dynam It!, and it’s kind of a 3D version of ...

YouTube Dicode in YouTube

Journey of making my first android game | #devlog | Dicode I am still new in the game dev world. but when you complete your first game that you spend day and night in making it, the joy is priceless.It took me around...

YouTube Quantum Code in YouTube

Creating my DREAM GAME with YOU (ReignScape #Devlog 0)First Indie Game Devlog for #ReignScape : An original and unique 2D strategy /city builder game made with #GodotEngine C# and C !💜 My Twitch Channel :https:...

Made with Godot

YouTube Project Heartbeat in YouTube

Project Heartbeat - 2021 Godot Engine showreel entry clips

YouTube Extern-A86 in YouTube

Alien Wham Trailer Trailer of my free to play indie game Alien Wham.

itch.io Quantum Studios in itch.io

ArkLite Rogue-Lite browser enemy-hitting madness!

itch.io Skinner Space in itch.io

Big Donut Kill people and crash police cars!

itch.io AnEnigmaticBug in itch.io

Chronozine Weave around lasers in slo-mo as you race to clear levels in minimum time

itch.io Epic Store in itch.io

Hyperspace Travelers Hyperspace Travelers is classic arcade-style shoot-him-up prototype

itch.io YelloeJ in itch.io

Sapphire Drone Pixel art side scroller game

itch.io GingerBread in itch.io

Millefeuille - [The Witness fangame prototype]A Witness-like 2d game. Will you find the three secret elephants?

itch.io Luke Hollenback in itch.io

Firetale A procedurally-generated role-playing adventure.

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