This Week in Godot #71

February 13, 2022Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #71 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 4.0 alpha 2 Every other week we’ll publish a new alpha build for Godot 4.0!

🤷 Miscellaneous

YouTube MrEliptik in YouTube

10 Most Loved addons from the Godot Addon Jam #1 In this video I’m showcasing the most loved addons from the first Godot Addon Jam!

Gonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

Here’s all the raw data from Godot games on Itch I have Godot Wild Jam #42 is starting in a couple of hours.

✍️ Tutorials

YouTube Chaff Dev in YouTube

Implementing Audio/Volume Settings is SO EASY in Godot

YouTube DELTA12 STUDIO in YouTube

Godot Tutorial - Save and Load your Game in a Simple Way Well, in this video I will show you how to create a simple Menu with four buttons and then you will learn how to Save and Load

YouTube Vlad Govorov in YouTube

In-depth look at Tool Scripts Today I’m going to try and explain to you everything about tool keyword in godot, diving deep into how it works and why some things happen.

YouTube Bramwell Williams in YouTube

Lessons from 2 weeks in Godot 4 I've been experimenting a lot in Godot 4 and wanted to share some of the major tips and lessons to help you get started on the journey

YouTube Jon Topielski in YouTube

How to create a Turn-based Combat System in Godot Learn how to create a Turn-based Combat system in Godot.

YouTube Vlad Govorov in YouTube

Using conveniences of export vars without losing maintainability | GDScript/C#Turns out that convenience and maintainaility are not opposites when it comes to export variables.

YouTube Chance. E in YouTube

How To Make Your Platformer Feel Juicy In Godot In 8 Minutes Just a short video on how to make your simple Godot platformer feel more juicy.

YouTube SDG Games in YouTube

I made the Pac-Man AI in a day, then ruined it with terrible audio design.I’m teaching myself video game design in 30 days by re-creating 20 iconic games.

YouTube Chevifier in YouTube

Godot Shaders What Ive Learnt So Far Spent a few months trying to learn shaders in Godot thought Id make a video showing a few stuff ive learnt

YouTube Snopek Games in YouTube

Rollback netcode in Godot (part 3): Making a custom MessageSerializer This is the 3rd part in a tutorial series teaching how to implement rollback netcode in your game in Godot

YouTube Nathan Hoad in YouTube

Godot Dialogue Manager tutorial In this video I do a quick run through of using the Dialogue Manager Godot addon.

YouTube Hairic Lilred in YouTube

How to make a Turn Based RPG in Godot Short breakdown on a project I’m working on, and that you can use for your games too!

YouTube Zerosurdity in YouTube

Godot Vocabulary Learning App Tutorial: Getting the Words into Godot and Accessing Them New Godot tutorial series! Making an App instead of a Game!

YouTube jmbiv in YouTube

Adding a Side Info Panel - FINALE (Godot Retro Text Adventure Tutorial #18)In this tutorial finale we’ll create a side info panel for our retro text adventure game in Godot.

YouTube Mitch Makes Things in YouTube

Godot 4’s New Networking Nodes Lets take a quick look at the new MultiplayerSpawner and MultiplayerSynchroniser nodes.

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

Energize your Games with these Quick and Easy Animations Godot Animations using the AnimationPlayer and AnimationTree.

YouTube ExploreGameDev in YouTube

Migrating a game to Godot 4, step by step guide With Godot 4 alphas shipping it’s time to look into what it would take to port a Godot 2D game

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

itch.io Nimble Beasts Collective in itch.io

Godot Project Manager A multi-party Kanban project managment plugin for Godot

Pan in Godot Shaders

Hexagon Shield – This is a custom shader, you can use texture...

deepgames in Godot Asset Library

GodotTPD A routeable HTTP server for Godot.

nathanhoad in Godot Asset Library

Dialogue Manager A simple branching dialogue editor and stateless runtime.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTube spimort in YouTube

Volunteers DevLog 2 | So many players on my server!The second devlog of my game Volunteers!

itch.io Spagoodlers in itch.io

Doomscroll DevLog: Systems, Systems, Systems

YouTube Rejke in YouTube

TailQuest - Dev Update #18

YouTube Liam Devs in YouTube

Devlog 2: Restructuring my game In Godot

YouTube Aarimous in YouTube

These Game Inspired me to Start making my Dream Game - (Godot Devlog #0)Designing an indie game is hard, so I’m taking inspiration from Pokémon, Vampire Survivors, Hades, Loop Hero, and Slay the Spire.

itch.io tomeyro in itch.io

GodotSfxr - Post Jam Version In this post-jam version I was able to iterate between a few options to find the best combination of usability and optimization.

YouTube Maštarija in YouTube

PewPew Dev Log #02 : Rudimentary networking I’ve added some rudimentary networking to my game so that it’s playable from multiple devices / clients at the same time.

Rakugo Team in Rakugo Team

Rakugo 3.3 Devlog #4 : Novel Visual Kit Hi everyone, here is the 4th devlog of Rakugo 3.3.

🤖 Made with Godot

YouTube CcBotics64 in YouTube

Chemistry Sandbox VR - demo This is a demo video of the upcoming VR educational game “Chemistry Sandbox VR”

gotm.io nolan_taylor in gotm.io

My Story A short, narrative-driven, precision platformer about the most toxic community on Earth

Pixel-Archipel in Steam

Quest Of Graal Race with up to 4 players in this frantic combat platformer!

GameMunchers in Steam

Monster Outbreak The King’s dimensional orb malfunctioned, bringing hordes of dimensional monsters into the Kingdom.

cybereality in Steam

Decay - a real time interactive experience

cybereality in Steam

Ella - a study in realism

itch.io Nimble Beasts Collective in itch.io

Simulation Theory Play in your browser

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

✋ Before you go

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