This Week in Godot #61

November 28, 2021Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #61 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

Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (part 1)The long-awaited first post about the multiplayer replication system in development for Godot 4.0 is here!

Godot Engine in Godot Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1 Godot 3.4 was released earlier this month, and it went fairly smoothly!

📰 News

Hope Corrigan in PC Gamer

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution comes to open source engine Godot Open source game engine meet open source upscaling.

YouTube Non Unknown in YouTube

Godot 4 - AMD’s Fidelity FX

gotm.io Macaroni Studios in gotm.io

Gotm.io Jam #11 ($100 Prizes)Theme: Up, Up and Away! 🆙

Deakcor in itch.io

PixelOver 0.8 Static 3D Adding support of static 3D formats and others improvements for 2D.

🤷 Miscellaneous

YouTube UNNamed in YouTube

Godot is Better Than What YOU Think Hello There In this video I tell you why is Godot’s Visual Scripting

YouTube PlugWorld in YouTube

Making a Game Using Godot 1.0 Uhh, I don’t know why I decided to make a game in an old build of Godot.

YouTube cybereality in YouTube

Godot Engine on ChromeOS ARM Chromebook I got the Godot Engine somewhat working on a $250 ARM Chromebook (Lenovo Duet).

YouTube Redefine Gamedev in YouTube

The Future of Godot - Juan / Rémi Interview Juan and Rémi are coming for an official interview for the GoGodotJam Festival.

YouTube Redefine Gamedev in YouTube

Dialogic Creator Interview - Find out how Emilio Empowers Godot Devs Emilio is the creator of one of the most-known Godot Plugins, Dialogic.

Gonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

Godot’s Q3 2021 report Finally! Pretty numbers, Q3 for Itch, Steam, Gotm, and /r/Godot

YouTube CodingKaiju in YouTube

How Godot Really Makes Money

YouTube Indie Game International in YouTube

IGI:11 Rafael Bordoni | “To Shed New Light”Today’s episode features Rafael Bordoni, a game developer based in São Paulo, Brazil.

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

Creating a game for the GoGodot Jam 2!Creating a game for the GoGodot Jam 2, with the theme Energy Source.

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube bitbrain in YouTube

RPG Character Animations in under 4 minutes! Godot 3.4 Tutorial In this Godot Engine tutorial, I show you how to set up character animations for your RPG by using Animation state machines in Godot Engine!

YouTube Col Ryan in YouTube

How to Make Grappler in Godot In this tutorial I show you how to make a grappler in godot, and I add it to the fps game I’m working on.

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

Particle Systems From Beginner To Pro | Godot Engine Godot engine has really powerful particle systems that can add a lot to any game.

YouTube BitBirdy in YouTube

How to use a Mutex when Multithreading in Godot In this Godot Engine tutorial I go through a simple example of a common multithreading problem called a “race condition”

YouTube HeartBeast in YouTube

3D Dungeon Code Walkthrough in Under 15 Minutes - Godot 3.4

YouTube John Ivess in YouTube

Randomly Variate Textures in Godot - 2 Methods

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

GitHub MikeSchulze in GitHub

GdUnit3 A Godot Integrated Unit Testing Framework

CasualGarageCoder in Godot Shaders

(Almost) Invisible Character Given a sprite, this shader gives it the ability to become invisible and fade into the background.

AnidemDex in Godot Asset Library

Textalog An user-friendly dialog system with characters, text boxes, dialog bubbles and many more (planned) features for your games.

AnidemDex in Godot Asset Library

Event System An easy but powerful event system implementation for Godot Engine.

randomDam in Godot Shaders

Color manipulator This is a simple color manipulator, it support brightness, contrast, saturation, tint and more.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTube fabian velander in YouTube

I made the trees grow :O

YouTube NeotoonDev in YouTube

Making the battle system complicated again... but fun | Devlog #4 Doing some tweaks on the game to make it more fun to play and adding some enemies along the way for more fight variation.

YouTube devmar in YouTube

Smooth 3D Camera Motion in Godot 3.4: Removing Jitter with Timestep Interpolation I was getting frustrated with the laggy camera motion in my project and I thought I’d try and fix it.

🤖 Made with Godot

YouTube Radiant Sloth in YouTube

Skycliffs Alpha Trailer Skycliffs is a singleplayer fast-paced action shooter and resource management roguelike.

YouTube IAmCheeseman in YouTube

New, More Melee Based Combat in My Game

itch.io YukkiTimmy in itch.io

Tilemap To Tileset Online Split your tilemaps and images into tilesets or tiles

EIRTeam in Steam

Project Heartbeat Project Heartbeat is a cute community-driven rhythm game

Brenton Wildes in Steam

Lingo Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore.

greenf0x in itch.io

Godot HTML5 Webcam Play in your browser

Louie Waynward in Steam

Somewhere in a Clay Nowhere An exploration-based language decoding game made out of clay!

itch.io DmAndy in itch.io

Vampire - Empire City-Builder A vampire city builder made for the official game jam for the TTRPG game ‘Vampire: the Masquerade’

gotm.io Red Mage Games in gotm.io

Pichon - The Bouncy Bird Our little bird Pichón 🐤 has fallen into the depths of a dark cave🙊! He's too chubby to fly, but he can bounce!

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

3 Months since the First Prototype Thinking about my game, 3 months after the first prototype.

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

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