This Week in Godot #44

July 31, 2021Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #44 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

Rémi Verschelde in Godot Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2 Here’s a first official dev snapshot for the upcoming Godot 3.4, with a lot of important improvements such as portal-based occlusion culling, lightmapper soft shadows, physics fixes, fixes to iOS C# support, Mono support for macOS ARM64, a whole new theme editor, and more!

Rémi Verschelde in Godot Engine

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1 For the 2021 edition of the Google Summer of Code, we have 5 students working on great features for Godot Engine: DAP backend, pseudolocalization, soft-body improvements, auto-layout in GraphEdit, and a command palette!

News

GitHub umutsevdi in GitHub

About the Upcoming Logic Engine 2.0 Update Logic Engine Update 2.0 Hi everyone, I'm so proud to announce the upcoming update for my Logic Engine. For those who don't know, Logic Engine is a free and open-source Logic Circuit Simulat...

gotm.io Macaroni Studios in gotm.io

Gotm.io Jam #7 ($100 Prizes)The Gotm.io Jam is the opportunity for you to make a game using the Godot Engine over the course of two weekends (ten days)..

Miscellaneous

YouTube CodingKaiju in YouTube

The Past Year’s Effect on Godot

YouTube Garbaj in YouTube

What Goes Into Making A Multiplayer FPS?Rayuse’s multiplayer tutorial series

Tutorials

YouTube The Gem Dev in YouTube

Godot 3.3: Create a 2D Platformer Game - #2 Gravity & Jump Hello Devs,Welcome to my first Godot tutorial, in this tutorial I covered how to add jump and gravity to your 2d platformer game in Godot 3.3

YouTube CGDive in YouTube

Blender to Godot: Rigged Character Workflow Blender to Godot Engine for rigged/animated characters. This is the workflow that I came up with after a lot of testing. It includes a bullet-proof rig setup...

YouTube Wojtek Pe in YouTube

Forest Level Design Follow Along Tutorial | Godot 3.3 Hey guys, welcome back to the channel it has been some time since I’ve uploaded but I think this video is worth the wait!I couldn’t find anything related to ...

YouTube Miziziziz in YouTube

Game AI Fundamentals With Godot Engine - Course Trailer

YouTube Hons Hon Central in YouTube

Pre-Rendered 3D Sprite Images From Blender to Godot - My Process

YouTube scriptblocks in YouTube

Procedural Map Generation Tutorial This Tutorial will show using OpenSimplexNoise to build Procedural Map Generation of TileMaps

YouTube Checkov Stuff in YouTube

Making a Wobbly Camera in Godot - 87 Subscriber Special There’s always a reason to celebrate, even if it is just an arbitrary number of subscribers. In this video, we make our camera bounce about as if the player...

YouTube NeotoonDev in YouTube

Bite Size Tutorial Basic 3D FPS Pt.1: Stage Setup | Godot 3.3 Making a simple fps one bite at a time. Always want to make an fps game but don’t know how to start or already know how to make 2d game in godot but want to m...

YouTube PlugWorld in YouTube

Combine Retro and HD Pixel Art in Godot Using the viewport node in Godot we can render the game at two different resolutions. Which will allow us to get the best of the HD pixel art and the retro p...

YouTube Arith metic in YouTube

Building a custom menu and node with plugins - Godot Tutorial I was having a hard time finding anything covering how to create a new menu with Godot Plugins. Because I couldn’t find any good tutorial I decided that I wo...

YouTube Eric Daily in YouTube

Godot In-Editor Pixel Art / Sprite Drawer using TileMap (code in description)I always wanted an in-editor pixel art tool for making quick sprites. Pixelorama is rad but it’s a full project, I just wanted something quick and dirty. Tur...

YouTube Agnis NeZvers Aldiņš in YouTube

Very powerful feature - Scene Packing

YouTube RobThePole in YouTube

Godot Platformer Tutorial Episode 13 Video series in which I will cover the basics of creating a platformer game.In this video we are going to finish off the enemy script and add in a death anim...

YouTube Gawe Game in YouTube

Ambil Pedang dan Ganti Animasi Hero Kali ini kita akan bahas gimana caranya supaya hero bisa ambil pedang dan animasinya ganti dengan animasi pegang pedang.

Libraries Assets and Add-ons

Shin-NiL in Godot Forum

List of Android Modules As this seems to be a recurring topic, especially among newcomers, I am listing here the modules that I know for the Android platform.

AndreMicheletti in Godot Asset Library

Agones SDK Plugin This plugin adds Agones SDK functionality to GDScript.

DavidOC in Godot Shaders

Aura (3D)It adds an “Aura” to 3D models

TwistedTwigleg in Godot Shaders

Decal Example A relatively simple decal shader that uses the depth buffer to draw over the geometry in the scene.

Nepacka in Godot Shaders

Wormhole

Owl in Godot Shaders

white balance shader the shader make the white balance effect that look samiler...

DevLogs

YouTube Devinthewater in YouTube

BlendSpace2D Movement for Enemies + Basic Mission Objectives | 3PS in Gogot, Devlog 11 Having watched my kid take out a few bots in Fortnite I decided that the enemy movement in my game needed fixing. The basic ’follow the path’ movement wasn’...

Urodela Games in itch.io

Enabling speech-to-text through Godot and REST Context My recent game Phonograph is a game where you play as a ghost hunter, communicating with ghosts you cannot see. The main mechanic is that the player speaks into an old phonograph using their a...

YouTube Giggio in YouTube

Adding Destroyable Obstacles and Power-ups To My Indie Game - Godot Devlog #1 This is the second 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 Doc Productions in YouTube

game devlog or whatever - month #3 | Godot Progress from the third month of development - new enemy, pathfinding, towns and more

YouTube Quantum Code in YouTube

Creating my CityBuilder’s GUI ! (ReignScape #Devlog 2)This week I decided to create a pre-alpha version and I remade the game GUI.

YouTube Solo CodeNet in YouTube

Godot (EN sub) Solocorp Devlog1 hello les amis c’est solo ! on crée des jeux avec Godot engine si vous voulez prolonger la discussion n’hésitez pas à nous rejoindre sur le discord solo_code...

YouTube Sourish Basu in YouTube

Chakravyuh The Game | New Boss FIghts | Godot Devlog #11

YouTube Chaff Dev in YouTube

I Made a Portal to a Parallel Universe in the Godot Game Engine

YouTube This Is Vini in YouTube

Sound effects, audio buses and positional audio - Far Star Game Devlog #13 Hello there. In this video I cover my process creating sound effects and some tips and tricks for editing and implementing it in Godot.This covers AudioStrea...

YouTube Tissue Inu in YouTube

Making Tough Decisions to Improve My Godot Game | Quetzal Devlog #2 After its first month of development, Quetzal is finally starting to feel pretty fun. There’s much to do and refine but I had a blast this last sprint adding...

YouTube MM Gamedev in YouTube

Devlog #1| New Levels, Graphics changes and Multiplayer|Epic Platformer Its been about 11 months since i started learning Godot and about 8 months since i started this game ...(and im just saying all that stuff so i look like im...

Made with Godot

YouTube Whiskeybarrel Studios in YouTube

Swords and Sandals Immortals Teaser Trailer Gladiator! Grab your sword, equip your sandals and take on the world in multiplayer Swords and Sandals!

itch.io A5H in itch.io

DashBit DashBit Is short hard minimalistic 1bit platformer with main focus on dashing mechanic

YouTube Kasper Frandsen in YouTube

How Good Can I Make Godot Look 2 - Cellar - Preview So I’ve finished up another scene in Godot. This time a medieval cellar. Here is a little preview of it. Hopefully I’ll find the time to record a breakdown of...

Mark Arenz in STEAM

Star Squadron: Student Driver A tongue-in-cheek space shooter where your only weapon is a ping pong cannon. Survive 15 levels and you might just earn your pilot’s license.

itch.io Pandaqi in itch.io

Totems of Tag It’s dodgeball, but without any restrictions!

itch.io dest1337 in itch.io

Traffic Man You’re a traffic lights manager XD.

itch.io mtk4000 in itch.io

Flare Find your way back to your crew in the dark using flares.

itch.io nflcar in itch.io

Dungeon Scramble A co-op dungeon player in which your character is randomized.

itch.io Zayle in itch.io

Rive Become a one man army to save your people from an ongoing war.

itch.io Creepy Ellie in itch.io

Cosmosown Harness strange plants to reclaim your ship in this puzzle platformer.

itch.io nivrad00 in itch.io

purrgatory a slice-of-death adventure

itch.io Santosh T. in itch.io

The Tragedy of Mooncity 2D Platformer

itch.io Gamet in itch.io

Reach it Snake-like endless action game about food

YouTube mw design in YouTube

Industrial Scene in Godot Engine 4 Dev Hi Guys, this is my latest work (2 Weeks work in progress). An industrial Scenery for a FPS Gameplay in Godot Engine 4 Dev. I now make use of the great new f...

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