This Week in Godot #73

Jose Albizures

Hello everyone, welcome to the #73 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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 4Another couple of weeks, another alpha build for Godot 4.0!

Godot EngineGodot Engine in Godot Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 1Users found a number of regressions in our recent Godot 3.4.3 release, so we’re fast-tracking the development of Godot 3.4.4 to fix them.

Godot EngineGodot Engine in Godot Engine

Godot XR update - February 2022Updates on various things XR in Godot.

đŸ€· Miscellaneous

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Should you Switch to the Godot 4.0 Alpha? | Let’s Talk Gamedev Ep. 3Godot 4 Alpha Snapshot it out now! But, because you CAN switch , doesn’t mean you SHOULD or even NEED to.

YouTubeGotm in YouTube

Back To Basics - Gotm.io Plays Your Games #29

Godot NotesGonzalo Gutiérrez in Godot Notes

19 Godot games on February’s Steam Next Fest

✍ Tutorials

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Supercharge your Games with Procedural AnimationsGodot makes Procedural Animations easy with the Tween Node!

YouTubeKasper Frandsen in YouTube

Animated Clouds with Flow Maps in Godot

YouTubeFinn Pickart in YouTube

Start Making Games (No Experience)You don’t know how to start making games? You have no coding experience and don’t know what to do? No problem.

YouTubeSnopek Games in YouTube

Rollback netcode in Godot (part 6): Playing offline!This is the 6th part in a tutorial series teaching how to implement rollback netcode in your game in Godot.

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Godot In Depth Beginner Tutorial - Pong with frickin’ Laser Beams!Godot Game Engine is a wonderful Open Source and free tool you can use to make video games.

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Create Sound Effects for your Game (Godot Tutorial - Chexers Part 12)Godot Audio can be easy using the AudioStreamPlayer/2D/3D various nodes.

YouTubeExploreGameDev in YouTube

Drag & drop in Godot part 2, comparing Control node and Node2D versionsTake a simple drag and drop TicTacToe game built in the Godot game engine.

YouTubeKron in YouTube

How to Screen Shake in GodotHere’s how you can screen shake / camera shake in Godot.

Joseph’s BlogJoseph Catrambone in Joseph’s Blog

Pure Godot Gesture Recognition: Machine Learning End-to-End

SelinaDevSelinaDev in SelinaDev

Godot Tutorial: Scene TransitionsIn this tutorial I will tackle scene transitions in three steps of complexity

YouTubeBramwell in YouTube

What the FOG? Godot 4Godot 4 adds volumetric fog! I cover the key ways to control and set it up using one of the latest demos in Godot 4 Beginners.

YouTubePlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

10 Things We Wish We Knew EARLIER (5) | Godot EngineIt’s been a while, but we’re back with 10 new Godot tricks that you guys should know!

🛠 Libraries Assets and Plugins

GitHubgodot-extended-libraries in GitHub

Antialiased Line2D add-on for Godot 3.xFast antialiased Line2D drawing add-on for Godot 3.x (GLES3 and GLES2)

GitHubpanthavma in GitHub

Castagne: Fighting Game engine and toolkitCastagne allows you to make fighting games more easily.

Godot Asset LibraryQubus0 in Godot Asset Library

Color PreviewThis Plugin lets you preview colours from code in the same line directly next to the line numbers and breakpoints.

Godot ShadersOzMaister in Godot Shaders

Item HighlighterAdd shader to Next Pass in the Surface Material of the MeshInstance

Godot Shadersarlez80 in Godot Shaders

Pixelized (by distance) Shaderlong distance will be more strong (large size) pixelize.

Godot ShadersFrankTheApe in Godot Shaders

Kuwahara ShaderThe Kuwahara filter can be used as an Sprite or post-processing effect.

đŸ§‘â€đŸ’» DevLogs

YouTubeBeau Seymour in YouTube

How I made my 3D Forest Fire scene in 10 minutes [Godot 3D GameDev]My second breakdown video for how I made my 3D Forest at Night scene

YouTubeDeveloper Oats in YouTube

Creating interesting Planets - a Journey of a Hobby DeveloperIn this video Developer Oats will present some changes he has made to his game.

YouTubePlayWithFurcifer in YouTube

100 Days of Work on Our Roguelike Dungeon CrawlerIn this video, we show you the progress we made in 100 days.

YouTubebitbrain in YouTube

Bringing my game to life with Dwarven NPCs | cave devlog #8

YouTubeOraNN in YouTube

Astreterre - Devlog 10 - English Version - Activators!

YouTubeAarimous in YouTube

Indie Devlog - Map & Pixel Art Icons | Proudly made with GodotIn my first ever Indie Game you’ll build and improve a team to fight through a procedural campaign of encounters.

YouTubeGames by TheLeoDeveloper in YouTube

TheDesertDrive devlog #6: better car controller

đŸ€– Made with Godot

itch.ioGatlink in itch.io

Pawer DashAn action platformer where dashing is your only weapon

YouTubeHackBerry Studio in YouTube

Ari’s Journey Launch TrailerThe Terran Alliance is invading the Slerians.

SteamMartyn Bissett in Steam

Tiny FootballTiny Football is a throw back to old top-down retro soccer games of the 90’s.

itch.ioOndrejoda in itch.io

Five Nights at Restored Freddy’sA short FNAF fangame, happening 10 years after Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza

YouTubeTissue Inu in YouTube

QUETZAL | Gameplay TeaserQuetzal is a fast-paced, bullet hell platformer highly focused on reactive gameplay.

itch.ioRadome Games in itch.io

AlisaAcaba Alisa, gĂŒnĂŒn sonunda kendi ailesini de mutlu edebilecek gĂŒce sahip olabilecek mi?

itch.ioIanMykl in itch.io

Project: RhoCard-Based Bullet Hell Action

itch.ioPixel Sprouts in itch.io

Minimalungeon (Mini Jam #101)A minimalist puzzle game

itch.ioLethian in itch.io

Cyber EscapeAn experimental physics game where you control a robot arm with only a mouse.

itch.iogoki_dev in itch.io

cardTDGear your party with magic cards to create powerful spells and destroy the invading bugs!

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