This Week in Godot #68

January 15, 2022Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #68 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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1 We’re getting ready for Godot 3.5, with some of the major highlights already merged and ready to test

Godot Engine in Godot Engine

Godot Showcase - RPG in a Box developer talks about his experience We interviewed Justin Arnold about his project RPG in a Box

📰 News

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

Godot add-on JAM #1 Announcement

YouTube CodingKaiju in YouTube

Facebook is giving an undisclosed amount of money to Godot...

YouTube Gamefromscratch in YouTube

Godot 3.5 Beta Godot have just released the first beta of Godot 3.5

🤷 Miscellaneous

Shantnu Tiwari in Python for Engineers

Why I’m Moving to Godot for Game Programming

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

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

YouTube Arcane Energy in YouTube

Arcane Energy 2021 - A year in Review This video is a look back to the events that happened in the past year, 2021

Gonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

The new Godot Scraper in town pushed me to up my game. Also, 2021 in numbers.

YouTube Gamefromscratch in YouTube

Photo Realistic Graphics in Godot? Yes!Ella is a newly released graphic demo showcasing photorealistic graphics in the Godot 3.4 game engine.

u/Rohbert in reddit

GameMaker Studio 2 and Godot If you have meaningful experience using both GameMaker and Godot we would love to hear from you here in this post.

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube Jean Makes Games in YouTube

How to Create a Morph Ball Mechanic || 2D Metroid-like Tutorial ||In this video we look at how to create a morphing ball mechanic like in Metroid dread or Super metroid.

YouTube John Ivess in YouTube

Interactive Tilemap in Godot in 5 Minutes

YouTube The Shaggy Dev in YouTube

5 quick tips for GDScript Let’s look at five useful things to know about coding in GDScript that are too small for their own video.

YouTube Chaff Dev in YouTube

Building a Better Jump in the Godot Game Engine!This is a re upload as the original from last week was exported in a smaller resolution that would be acceptable for this kind of video.

YouTube Emilio in YouTube

Create your first Godot Plugin

YouTube jmbiv in YouTube

Quests and Quest Rewards (Godot Retro Text Adventure Tutorial #15)In this tutorial we’ll add quests and quest rewards to our retro text adventure in Godot.

YouTube BitBirdy in YouTube

How to use a Semaphore when Multithreading in Godot In this video I go over what a semaphore is and also how you would use semaphores in Godot Engine to solve the Producer-consumer computing problem.

Yiannis Charalambous in Asteroids Game For Complete Beginners: 1

Asteroids Game For Complete Beginners: 1 This tutorial is designed for people with little to no experience with programming who want to learn how to create games using the Godot game engine.

YouTube BornCG in YouTube

Godot 3.4: Let’s Build a 2D Platformer!: Part 18 (Running & Finite State Machines)In this Godot Game Engine tutorial I cover adding running to our game’s character’s abilities.

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

Using Blender and Godot to Model 3D Game Pieces to my Game Chexers (Tutorial/Devlog)In this Godot Devlog/Tutorial I’ll be using Blender to create the 3D game pieces for Chexers.

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

hints in Godot Asset Library

Ply - In Editor Box Modeling In-editor box modeling tools for ArrayMeshes.

MounirTohami in Godot Asset Library

Todo Cards TDC is a plugin that works in the main editor window, it's optimized for performance.

solarstrings in Godot Shaders

Seascape shader Shadertoy Seascape shader converted to Godot shader

DeveloperOats in Godot Shaders

3D - Sun This shader creates a sun with custom color.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

itch.io NeotoonDev in itch.io

Security and polish update “After just a couple of days after opening the testing facility, we encountered a huge number of missing gems.

YouTube devmar in YouTube

Moving My 3rd Person Shooter to Godot 4 / ‘Penitent’ Devlog 14

YouTube SquidGodDev in YouTube

I Made a 1-Bit Space Horror Game in 1 Week | Godot I challenged myself to make a 2D 1-Bit Space Horror game in 1 week using the Godot engine.

YouTube DevDuck in YouTube

Building the Skills System for my Dream RPG!In this episode I put some finishing touches on the Diving system.

🤖 Made with Godot

itch.io Yatchan in itch.io

Run, Forresta, Run!Play in your browser

itch.io Andres Hernandez in itch.io

Ella: a study in realism Real time 3D graphics demo made in Godot.

YouTube Danny Garay in YouTube

Toziuha Night: Dracula’s Revenge is now on Steam!

Ilya Aptekarev in App Store

Spinny Plane In Spinny Plane your plane spins, and you shoot!

YouTube daichi in YouTube

Planet Boom - Demo Announcement Trailer | Steam

itch.io SporkTank in itch.io

Puzz Mines Grid based puzzle game, inspired by classic Amiga/PC games like Emerald Mine and Superplex

Solo Byte Games in Steam

Fracture Hell Fracture Hell is a replayable arcade shooter featuring dynamic destruction and deck building.

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

✋ Before you go

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