This Week in Godot #66

January 3, 2022Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #66 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.

📰 News

MrEliptik in itch.io

Godot Add-on Jam #1 This is the first edition of the Godot Addon Jam, a jam focused on creating addons for the Godot Game Engine!

David Snopek in Snopek Games

Retro Tank Party v1.2: Rollback Netcode!After about 6 months of intense development, the biggest update EVER for Retro Tank Party is here!

🤷 Miscellaneous

YouTube AlexHoratio in YouTube

The Godot Engine Needs You!

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

10 Weird Games You Missed | Godot Engine Showcase This time, we have 10 Godot games with very interesting premises

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube Javlin Studio in YouTube

Godot Basics: Rigid Bodies A dive into what rigid bodies are and how to use them.

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

How to Create a GODOT “Hello New Year” app + Particle2D Confetti (2min Tutorial)In this Godot Tutorial I’ll show you how to create a quick and fun themed “Hello World” app.

YouTube The Gem Dev in YouTube

Enemy Follow Player in Godot | no code | Visual Scripting Hello Game Devs, In this video, I would show you how you can make an enemy follow a player in Godot without code.

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

How to use GODOT to Create a 3D Hexagon Game Grid (Tutorial/Devlog)In this Godot Devlog/Tutorial I’ll create the main game board and add color to my custom hexagon tiles.

YouTube Samurai Kina in YouTube

1st Tutorial series SQLite together with Inventory System in Godot.Im linking inventory system with SQLite in godot. Hope you like comment and subscribe.

YouTube The Gem Dev in YouTube

Make a 2D Top Down Shooter in Godot | No Code | Visual Scripting Learn How to create a 2D top-down shooter game with Godot without writing a single line of code using Godot Visual Scripting

YouTube Papai Game Maker in YouTube

#8 - Desenvolva jogos com a Godot engine Asteroides acompanham background - Export var e NodePath

YouTube Teenage Coding in YouTube

Godot Tip: Duplicate Scenes Easier with Tilemaps (Beginner Friendly)In this video, I show you how to use Tilemaps to make level building easier.

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

itch.io MilkAndBanana in itch.io

Godot FPS Template A free first person template for the Godot Engine.

jwestman in Godot Shaders

Inverted Color Crosshair A shader that inverts the colors behind it using a mask. Useful for, e.g., creating a crosshair that you can always see.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTube Beau Seymour in YouTube

How I made my 3D Forest scene look good(ish) - [Godot GameDev]My first attempt at a breakdowns/making-of for how I made my 3D Forest scene look good(ish) in Godot engine.

YouTube Saiponath Games in YouTube

We implemented chunks in our Terrain System | OpenSkyCity Devlog #38 OpenSkyCity is a city simulation game with first person view and drivable vehicles.

YouTube John Ivess in YouTube

How I Developed a Sandbox Game in 7 Days

YouTube Brothers Make Games in YouTube

We Broke Godot’s physics! (Devlog #001)Godot is a phenomenal game engine but this game we are developing has some specific needs that required a custom physics solution.

🤖 Made with Godot

itch.io bauxite in itch.io

Bendyworm A platformer where the entire world bends like a worm

itch.io YukkiTimmy in itch.io

Tilemap2Tileset 2.1 Split your tilemaps and images into tilesets or tiles

itch.io meloonics in itch.io

Kingdom Hingdom Thingdom A charming, fast-paced jump’n’run’n’slash’n’climb

YouTube Cosmic Spud in YouTube

Ancient - Releasing Feb 4th, 2022 (Trailer)Cosmic Spud’s first big game, Ancient, is coming out Feb 4th, 2022.

YouTube GGBot in YouTube

I Recreated a 1998 Game Without Source Code.The game was recreated without Source Code. Made with Godot Engine.

GitHub bram-dingelstad in GitHub

Wol: The friendly tool for writing game dialogue, in and for Godot A plugin for creating interactive dialogue in Godot.

YouTube ca3 in YouTube

Godot Initial GDNative MIDI output test.Custom made rtmidi gdnative module.

itch.io Goose Ninja in itch.io

The Banana Bandit: Last Stand Play as the Banana Bandit and fight off the Juice Syndicates minions.

itch.io MithosMoon in itch.io

Crazy Rolling Hazy Move! But move carefully, cause the Kill machines are everywhere!

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

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