This Week in Godot #72

Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #72 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 EngineGodot Engine in Godot Engine

Opening GitHub Discussions for enhancement ideas and suggestionsWe are opening GitHub Discussions for open-ended conversations about new features and improvements.

Godot EngineGodot Engine in Godot Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2The 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

YouTubePlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

10 INSANE Games You Have To See | Godot Engine ShowcaseIt’s once again time to show you some amazing games made with Godot.

✍️ Tutorials

YouTubeChaff Dev in YouTube

I’ve Spent an Entire Week Trying to Fix This in my FPS Game!

YouTubeCptFurball in YouTube

Baking Navmesh By Group Children Godot 3.4 + Godot 4.0 | TutorialThe default navmesh baking uses the its children as the source of meshes. This tutorial takes a look at an alternative method.

YouTubejmbiv in YouTube

A* Pathfinding in Godot 3D (Tutorial)In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to write an A* algorithm in Godot 3D using Godot’s built-in A* implementation.

YouTubeChevifier in YouTube

Node Communication Methods In Godot

YouTubeChevifier in YouTube

RigidBody FPS Character | Godot Tutorial

YouTubeThe Shaggy Dev in YouTube

Building a more advanced state machine in GodotHierarchical state machines and dependency injection are two great techniques to know about when building your state machines in Godot.

YouTubeHairic Lilred in YouTube

How to make actions in your Turn Base RPG in GodotShort tutorial on the action structure aspect of my RPG godot project.You can use it for your personal and commercial project.

YouTubePlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

How to Use the New TileMap in Godot 4In this tutorial, we show you how to setup a tilemap in Godot 4 Alpha.

YouTubeSnopek Games in YouTube

Rollback netcode in Godot (part 4): Spawning scenes and NetworkTimerThis is the 4th part in a tutorial series teaching how to implement rollback netcode in your game in Godot

SelinaDevSelinaDev in SelinaDev

Godot Tutorial: Scene Transitions | SelinaDevIn this tutorial I will tackle scene transitions in three steps of complexity.

YouTubeFinePointCGI in YouTube

Lets Look At Godot 4! SSIL, Viewport Environment Menu, and Blender Controls OH MY!Hey Guys, this time we talk about some of the new features Godot 4 offers! SSIL or screen space illumation, a new viewport environment menu, and blender controls!

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

GitHubhiulit in GitHub

Godot Plugin LospecBrowse through thousands of awesome Lospec palettes

Godot Shadersarlez80 in Godot Shaders

Grass Grid ShaderA Grass Grid Shader.

Godot ShadersColorauGuiyino in Godot Shaders

Star NestThis is a shader taken from shadertoy and “translated” to be used in Godot

Godot ShadersKathe in Godot Shaders

Squishy scrollSimple shader that makes your TextureRect moving with squish effect inside.

Godot Asset LibraryantonWetzel in Godot Asset Library

Import HelperImport Plugins for Aseprite and Blender

Godot Asset LibraryLeonardMeagher2 in Godot Asset Library

Github To ItchThis addon automatically generates a github workflow to publish your game to your itch.io project.

🧑‍💻 DevLogs

YouTubefornclake in YouTube

360-degree aiming on a 2D pixel art character - Super Metroid in Godot devlog

YouTubeNagi in YouTube

I made an Add-on for Godot | Dialogue Nodes I created the addon Dialogue Nodes for the jam and polished it further while editing this video.

SteamKerzoven in Steam

Circle of Kerzoven - Public Alpha Demo - Steam NewsAround 1-3 hours of playtime

YouTubeSDG Games in YouTube

Would I recommend the 20 games in 30 days challenge so far?I’m teaching myself video game design in 30 days by re-creating 20 iconic games.

YouTubeOnokio in YouTube

Beginning Level Design (Blender + Godot) - Visions Devlog 1.0

YouTubeGabe's Game Dev in YouTube

Prototype to Demo - Card Game Design and Cutting ScopeSpent more time on the card game design and mechanics, also did some much needed scope reduction.

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Indie Progress Report for my Roguelike Auto Battler | Devlog | GodotUsing the Godot Game Engine I made major progress on my Rougelike Auto Battler demo.

Rakugo TeamRakugo in Rakugo Team

Rakugo 3.3 devlog 05 - Rakugo TeamHi everyone, here is the 5th devlog of Rakugo Project 3.3

YouTubeLeon Stansfield in YouTube

I Remade Breath of the Wilds Combat In Godot!In this video, I remade Zelda Breath of the Wild BOTW combat system in the Godot game engine!

🤖 Made with Godot

Apps on Google PlayWrench Type in Apps on Google Play

UP Forever - Endless RunnerEndless Vertical Runner

itch.ioAndres Hernandez in itch.io

The World is Binary: Why Love is the Answera multimedia journey exploring love and fear, science and religion, good and evil.

YouTubezzz_games in YouTube

MBOY Editor 2.1 - Music Tiles game example

itch.ioBrawmario in itch.io

Godot WordleSimple Wordle clone, made in Godot

itch.ioZayle in itch.io

SharphatFast-Paced Combat-Platformer

itch.iosmile in itch.io

Inca boulder runEscape the temple!

itch.ioclarkjohn in itch.io

Wizard ChaseCollect all the treasure from the dungeon! Who can get the highest score?

itch.ioPatteDeCanard in itch.io

Architect’s BlueprintsPerspective Puzzle Game

🐦 Some Cool Tweets

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