This Week in Godot #70

February 5, 2022Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #70 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

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1 The 3.4.3 maintenance release is around the corner with a number of important fixes queued in the stable branch since 3.4.2.

🤷 Miscellaneous

YouTube Bramwell Williams in YouTube

3D Primer: Godot 4 Alpha The first alpha release for Godot 4 is here

MrEliptik in itch.io

Top ranked addons in the Godot Add-on Jam #1

Gonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

Finding the first Godot game on Itch

YouTube PlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

Godot 4 Alpha Looking Good Last week, the first alpha build of Godot 4 was released, and of course we had to try out all the new stuff!

YouTube Martin Senges in YouTube

First look at Godot 4 Alpha and making a game

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube The Concept Boy in YouTube

A Dialogue builder for [Godot, Game Maker, Unreal, Unity]

YouTube Col Ryan in YouTube

How to Stop or Slow Time in Godot I show you how to create simple but cool effects, such as freezing time or creating slow motion within the godot engine.

YouTube jmbiv in YouTube

Colored Text and Zebra Striping (Godot Retro Text Adventure Tutorial #17)In this tutorial we’ll go over how to use a RichTextLabel to add color to the text in our retro text adventure game in Godot.

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

How to Create a Godot Main Menu in 2022 Simple Godot Tutorial with only 4 LINES of CODE!!

YouTube NekotoArts in YouTube

FAST Stylized Volumetric Lighting in Godot 3 | Tutorial

YouTube Vlad Govorov in YouTube

Replace export vars for better maintainability | Godot Tutorial | GDScript/C#In this tutorial we’re going to once again talk on the subject of getting rid of export variables

YouTube Jean Makes Games in YouTube

Coding a Simple Camera2d following the player in Godot In this tutorial we gonna learn how to make a simple camera that follows the player everywhere.

YouTube Snopek Games in YouTube

Rollback netcode in Godot (part 2)Getting Started with the Godot Rollback Netcode addon!

YouTube Bastiaan Olij in YouTube

Getting started with Godot and OpenXR In this video we’ll run through the steps to get a basic OpenXR project up and running both for desktop VR and running on a Meta Quest.

YouTube FinePointCGI in YouTube

Creating A PS1 Resident Evil Prerender System In Godot In this video, we discuss how to build a prerendered scene inside of Godot!

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

itch.io SoloCodeNet in itch.io

Sprite editor addon for godot a cool simple sprite editor on godot!

GitHub SpyrexDE in GitHub

SmoothScroll: A customizable SmoothScrollContainer node for Godot

GitHub you-win in GitHub

Spout module for Godot An engine module for Godot 3.4.2 that adds support for Spout2.

3ddelano in Godot Asset Library

Editor Discord Presence Shows what you are doing in the Godot Editor as your Discord presence.

dsnopek in Godot Asset Library

Godot Rollback Netcode This is an addon for implementing rollback and prediction netcode in the Godot game engine.

arlez80 in Godot Shaders

Glitch Transition A glitch transition shader.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTube CptFurball in YouTube

My First Working Prototype! | Project Mindful Chaos

YouTube Das Chala in YouTube

Godot Pixel Shooter Roguelite - AI Pathfinding and New Enemies Godot twin stick pixel shooter roguelite devlog 7.

YouTube PHO BOSS in YouTube

Started on adding physics in my animated IK Legs!I’ve decided to go back and work on my IK legs.

YouTube Maštarija in YouTube

PewPew Dev Log #01: The beginning In this video I just show the basic building blocks of a mystery multiplayer mobile game I’m currently making.

YouTube DevDuck in YouTube

Designing a Diving System for an Open World 2D RPG Welcome to another devlog for Dauphin! In this episode I continue to refine the diving system

YouTube Tissue Inu in YouTube

Crafting The Perfect Game Loop for My Indie Game | Quetzal After a few months of work, Quetzal has gone through many changes.

YouTube devmar in YouTube

Advanced Player Animation, Particle Collisions & Issues with Godot 4 Alpha / Penitent Devlog 15 Today I want to offer you some of my ramblings inspired by the official release of Godot 4’s alpha

🤖 Made with Godot

itch.io project-souldier-dev in itch.io

Soul Dier Demo Available for Windows

Tim Overvliet in Apps on Google Play

Arabilis Grow and harvest vegetables, outsmart Mother Nature in this arcade puzzle game.

Daisy Games in Steam

Sokobos Sokoban meets Greek Tragedy.

gotm.io Undermog Games in gotm.io

Operation STEEL A roguelike shoot-em-up rendered in beautiful hand-drawn art.

itch.io SirenG in itch.io

Revenge of the Fish Conserve the fish’s natural habitat by fighting pollution and garbage monsters!

Dizzy Mind Games in Steam

Subcube Subcube is a mind bending puzzle game.

itch.io Bragma in itch.io

Ablaze Ascent A speedrunning-focused vertical precision platformer

itch.io Casual Garage Coder in itch.io

Unexpected Browler Local Versus 2 to 4 players Brawling Game with pixel art

Undermog Games in Steam

Operation STEEL Operation STEEL is a roguelike shoot-em-up rendered in beautiful hand-drawn art.

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

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