Fabio Alessandrelli - 19 April 2019Godot is getting some WebRTC love! Experimental support is available in current master branch, enabling low latency networking in HTML5/WebAssembly exports, and initial desktop platforms support via GDNative. The API is still experimental but will become stable in the next few months.
Juan Linietsky - 19 April 2019With the import system rewrite in Godot 3.0, the ability to import atlases was lost. Using atlases is not as common nowadays, given the processing power of desktop and devices has increased a lot, but there are many use cases where this may be worth it. Godot 3.2 will bring back support for it.
Juan Linietsky - 16 April 2019Another year, another showreel. As every year, the amount of quality games being created by Godot has increased significantly (as did the amount of submissions).
Juan Linietsky - 15 April 2019This year, during GDC, GitHub again hosted a Godot Meetup at their offices and the amount of attendants was considerably bigger than last year. Thanks hugely to them for all their support!
Rémi Verschelde - 11 April 2019We are delighted to announce that Godot Engine has been awarded USD 50,000 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) Mission Partners program. This award will be used to fund the work of some of our core contributors on three different work packages, all linked with Mozilla's mission of furthering an open and accessible Web. For Godot, this means making sure that everyone can build and play networked and browser-based games with open source technology.
Juan Linietsky - 10 April 2019I left these out of 3.0 and never managed to work on it again, yet users requested them a lot this past year. Finally, they will be available for Godot 3.2.
Juan Linietsky - 10 April 2019Another long awaited feature makes it for Godot 3.2. This makes the workflow for 3D games considerably easier, by allowing conversion of concave meshes of any form into a set of convex shapes.
Juan Linietsky - 8 April 2019It sounds like an odd feature to have (and never crossed our minds at the beginning). Yet, more and more users requested it, and their context it made a lot of sense. In the end, we now believe this functionality is of vital importance to strengthen Godot adoption in the future.
Juan Linietsky - 5 April 2019Godot support for 2D is already mature and most of our users enjoy working with it. There is, however a growing trend of adding 3D layers to 2D games, which can be seen in successful titles such as Hollow Knight or Rayman Origins.
Juan Linietsky - 1 April 2019APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE! -- We hear you and we understand your concerns. You feel like Godot, in the end, is not "public" enough. Worry no longer! Today we announce that Godot will go public this year.
Bastiaan Olij - 29 March 2019Now that Godot 3.1 has been released, it's time to update the VR drivers and talk a bit about where we are at with AR and VR.
Juan Linietsky - 26 March 2019Rémi Verschelde, Hein Pieter Van Braam and I went to GDC 2019 in representation of Godot. Until last year, I would go mostly alone. So, how did it go compared to last year?
Juan Linietsky - 13 March 2019After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1! It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. Godot 3.1 is more mature and easy to use, and it does away with many hurdles introduced in the previous versions.
Rémi Verschelde - 12 March 2019All good things come in threes, so after our first two release candidates, here is Godot 3.1 RC 3. We've reached a state which we think should be good to release as the stable branch, so if no critical regression is found, the next build should be 3.1 stable!
Rémi Verschelde - 10 March 2019We had our first release candidate for Godot 3.1 two days ago, and various critical bugs have been fixed since then, so we're publishing a new candidate, RC 2. Please give it a try on various devices and platforms, and ensure that no critical issues have been missed.
Rémi Verschelde - 8 March 2019After over one year of work, 5 alpha releases, 11 betas and 7000 commits by close to 500 contributors, we're finally ready to wrap up the 3.1 version and let you all benefit from the hundreds of new features, enhancements and bug fixes that have been worked on by the community since January 2018. We're therefore publishing this first release candidate, Godot 3.1 RC 1, to let all of you test it thoroughly and check if any showstoppers remain. The final release is a but few days away!
Rémi Verschelde - 5 March 2019One (hopefully) last beta was needed to test the many last-minute bug fixes done over the last few day, which brought the 3.1 version very close to what we want the final version to be. But any heavy bugfix requires QA testing to ensure that it does not introduce regressions, so we're publishing a new 3.1 beta 11 build to have the community confirm if it's ready for the Release Candidate stage.
Rémi Verschelde - 2 March 2019Another beta build towards Godot 3.1. We're getting very close to being ready to call it a Release Candidate, so barring any major regression in this beta, we should be able to publish a RC1 build in a few days.
Rémi Verschelde - 1 March 2019We're organizing a Godot Meetup at the GitHub HQ during GDC 2019, on Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 pm. Entrance is free and everyone is welcome to attend, but you do need to register beforehand on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/godot-gdc-meetup-2019-tickets-57554184114
HP van Braam - 28 February 2019The previous beta had some GLES2/Android regressions which, along with several other issues, has been fixed in Beta 9. Please go forth and test! Assuming no new regressions are found we are likely going to move to *release candidate* state soon.
Rémi Verschelde - 27 February 2019Godot will take part in the Google Summer of Code for the second time in a row, and we are thrilled at the opportunity to mentor students to work on interesting projects for the Godot community.
Rémi Verschelde - 26 February 2019Our two previous beta builds had showstopper regressions, which have now been fixed. This beta 8 builds allows using the engine with C# again, as well as running it on older CPUs. As we release it, we are already aware of another recent regression with ETC texture import affecting GLES2 on mobile, which will be fixed in the next build.
HP van Braam - 24 February 2019As bugfixing is going at a steady pace towards Godot 3.1 stable, we plan to release beta builds frequently to have broad testing on the latest fixes and spot any regression. So we're now publishing Godot 3.1 beta 7 with close to 25 commits made since beta 6 a few days ago. This is also the first Godot released to have code signed binaries on Windows!
Juan Linietsky - 22 February 2019Are you proud of your game and would you like us to showcase it in Godot's 2019 showreel? Please send us a short video (10-15 secs) for us to include it!