This Week in Godot #58

November 7, 2021Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #58 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

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish Godot 3.4 is finally released with a number of major new features and a focus on backporting UX improvements from the in-development 4.0 release.

Juan Linietsky in Godot Engine

Animation Data Rework for 4.0 One of the last areas pending for redesign in upcoming Godot 4.0 has now been completed, resulting in much improved usability when dealing animation data.

Yuri Roubinsky in Godot Engine

Improvements to shaders and visual shaders in Godot 4.0 A quick overview of upcoming changes for the shader language and visual shader systems in Godot 4.0.

📰 News

GoGodotJam in GoGodotJam

GoGodot Jam full schedule!

🤷 Miscellaneous

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

Godot Engine Showcase | 10 Spooky Games 💀🎃It’s spooky season - time to play some Godot games with horror themes!

YouTube Gamefromscratch in YouTube

Godot 3.4 - A Surprisingly Huge Release While We Are... 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘵 4 Godot 3.4 has just been released and wow... there is a shocking amount of nice new stuff.

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

13 Addons to Speed Up your game creation in Godot!In this video I show you 13 addons that will help you make games faster!

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube Duroxxigar in YouTube

Godot: Input handling Explains how Godot handles input

YouTube NAD LABS in YouTube

Procedural Boards In Godot A quick video showcasing how to make a chessboard in Godot.

YouTube Developer Oats in YouTube

Simple 3D Procedural Planet Generation In this video Developer Oats talks about a 3D planet generation project in the awesome Godot Engine.

YouTube Duroxxigar in YouTube

Godot: Scene Communication Covers how to communicate between scenes and will help design scenes themselves

YouTube Coding with Mick in YouTube

Porting a GameMaker Studio 2 Game to Godot Engine - Can we do it?Let’s find out what it is going to take to move our GameMaker Studio 2 game into the Godot Engine.

Blogger Levi Lindsey in Blogger

How to build a platformer AI: From low-level trajectories to high-level behaviors This series of posts describes the design of the platformer AI in the Surfacer framework for Godot.

YouTube picster in YouTube

How to make a silky smooth camera for pixelart games in Godot

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

fenix in Godot Asset Library

Appwrite SDK Lightweight Appwrite SDK to integrate your Appwrite backend on Godot Engine using GDScript

levi in Godot Asset Library

Surfacer: 2D-platformer AI and pathfinding

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTube Davies dev in YouTube

Making a Team seas game

YouTube RyderGaming in YouTube

How I made a track for my racing game in Godot - Veloce Devlog #2 In this devlog we look at the possibilities of racetrack creation in Godot.

YouTube NeotoonDev in YouTube

Trying out a New World| Devlog #3 Inspired by the simple level generating system of Nuclear Throne, I came up with some ideas to make my game level generation much simpler.

YouTube theAleks in YouTube

How to plan your game? | Godot Indie Devlog #0 Hey there and welcome to my first ever indie game devlog!

YouTube Velander in YouTube

Adding Windwaker Clouds to My Game! - Devlog 2

YouTube Kmitt 91 in YouTube

Starting Area of my Indiegame | Sandfire Devlog #6 Tested a bit the Godot 4 pre alpha and decided to create the starting desert for my game in it.

YouTube Xilurus in YouTube

How I make game art for my indie game - Godot Devlog #1 This video, I will show you my process how i make my game art for my indie game, project wisp, and the story how i got there.

YouTube Afely in YouTube

This Rat Saved my Game | Intwine Devlog 2 Hello, I’m Afely. I did it! I made a new video within a month of my last upload!

YouTube OraNN in YouTube

Astreterre - Devlog 08 - English Version - Dialogues!

YouTube SelinaDev in YouTube

WayBuilder, a Deck Builder made in Godot - Devlog 1 This is the first Devlog of WayBuilder, a deck building card game I am developing in the Godot Game Engine.

🤖 Made with Godot

itch.io JK Tech in itch.io

Endways A Dream Emulater inspired game

GitHub 3ddelano in GitHub

Slide Puzzle in Discord Play Slide Puzzle in Discord (with Buttons)

Yoobin Lee in Kickstarter

Isotope: Ash Cyber-future RPG, a small pixel art homage game to the MMBN series on the GBA.

itch.io selfsame in itch.io

upworm climb statues, oh worm

YouTube Rivernotch in YouTube

Fishards Release Trailer

Revlast in Steam

Square ‘n’ Balls Jump with the square to make points while you avoid the balls and achieve a great position in the leaderboard!

itch.io Cherry in itch.io

Vampires & Witches Take on the frights of Halloween as a vampire out to save her witch girlfriend!

itch.io thatsmaik in itch.io

One Simple Observation Jump your way trough life and deal with the challenges of growing up in an ever changing world.

Pixel Balloon LLC in Apps on Google Play

Tap Knight - Idle Adventure Tap your way to victory and learn lore in this offline, incremental, casual RPG!

itch.io Indigo Beetle in itch.io

FruitSpritzer Fast and furious fruit splatting action!

itch.io MrEliptik (vico.choco) in itch.io

Jetfirepack Find your way out of the cave using your jetpack. Don’t destroy everything!

itch.io XtremeZero in itch.io

SkyTowers “Stack” clone

itch.io Lentsius in itch.io

Card World Explore the world of card as a super round delivery bot!

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

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