Max Hilbrunner - 26 October 2018With roughly 170 participants and 31 games submitted, the second Godot Wild Jam was a huge success! Read on about the winners for this month and see the compilation video for this Godot Wild Jam.
Max Hilbrunner - 10 October 2018While the GodotCon in Poznań is ongoing (Livestream here!), our awesome community could not wait for the next official Godot Jam and just got one started on their own: The Godot Wild Jam.
Rémi Verschelde - 7 October 2018GodotCon 2018 Poznań will be on October 10 & 11, and we have a great line-up of speakers from the Godot community who will share insights in their Godot-related work and workflow. Core contributors of the engine will also be there to introduce attendees to the inner workings of a Free and Open Source project like Godot, where everyone can get involved!
Nathan GDQuest - 5 October 2018Build beautiful and gamified presentations with Godot Slides 2.0! The project ships with a 10 minutes multilingual pitch for you to give at gamedev meetups and other events, to introduce students to the engine... It's all drag-and-drop and, as you'd expect, open source.
Rémi Verschelde - 1 October 2018Hacktoberfest 2018 has started, and you can contribute to Godot to earn a T-shirt (and experience!). Digital Ocean and GitHub sponsor this event that encourages everyone to contribute to any free and open source project on GitHub, including Godot's repositories. All pull requests count, so you can work either on the engine source code or on the documentation - there are things to do for everyone!
Juan Linietsky - 21 September 2018Godot gets a new Gold sponsor! In this case, we are welcoming Image Campus, an education institution located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which specializes in animation, digital art and video games.
Gilles Roudiere - 21 September 2018Godot's FileSystem dock gets an improved tree view mode with files included in the tree, with thumbnails. This makes it much easier to go through project files from a single dock. Various improvements are also done to the favorites usability, right-click menu and the split view mode.
Joan Fons - 19 September 2018Simplex noise generation has just landed in Godot 3.1, using the unencumbered OpenSimplex implementation. It allows generation of 2D, 3D and 4D noise with a few lines of code with applications for procedural generation and visual effects.
Juan Linietsky - 8 September 2018Looking for a good chance to learn about Godot internals and development? Want to become a hero and help with the release of Godot 3.1? This is your chance!
Rémi Verschelde - 31 August 2018Godot 3.1 is shaping up nicely, and the master branch is finally ready for wider testing from the community. With this snapshot, we're entering the alpha stage and focus will now be solely on bug fixing and stabilizing the development version, up until we release Godot 3.1-stable.
Rémi Verschelde - 28 August 2018We're organizing a new GodotCon in Poznań, Poland on Wed 10 & Thu 11 October 2018, right before the Game Industry Conference (same location). Our lead developer Juan Linietsky will be there (flying in from Argentina), as well as many other core developers and Godot users, and we'd love you to join us there!
Andrea Catania - 7 August 2018It is now possible to create cloth simulation and soft bodies by just adding a node. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to create a **Soft Ball** and a **Cloak**.
Andrea Catania - 5 August 2018Skeleton Inverse kinematic announcement with tutorial video
HP van Braam - 29 July 2018Godot 3.0.6 fixes an important security issue. In addition we've added the 'headless' build for CI use and fixed several C# issues.
Rémi Verschelde - 28 July 2018Godot 2.1.5 is released with hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements made by the community over the last 11 months! It features various distribution changes for Android and iOS, as well as new platform features like hardware cursor acceleration and multitouch events. The binaries now come with the same crash handler as Godot 3.0, and dozens of improvements have been made to the "Godot 2 to 3 converter" which you can use to port your Godot 2 projects to the new format. Last but not least, this release fixes security vulnerabilities in Godot's marshalling code (also going to be fixed in Godot 3.0.6 in coming hours) which can affect Godot servers.
HP van Braam - 25 July 2018As some of you probably noticed a lot of PRs on the backlog now need a rebase because of PR 20137
Rémi Verschelde - 25 July 2018Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code for the first year, and we have five students working on exciting projects: Godot Blender exporter; MIDI and SoundFont support; GDNative video decoders; WebRTC support for multiplayer games; Gear VR and Daydream support. In this post, our GSoC students give you an update on their current progress and the next steps for their projects.
karroffel - 23 July 2018After all the light types are implemented, the next step is to implement shadow mapping, with all its frustrating implementation details ;)
George Marques - 22 July 2018Exposing the new addition to GDScript: optional type hints and all the perks it brings.
Rémi Verschelde - 19 July 2018Some love for the users of the old stable 2.1 branch: Godot 2.1.5 is still being worked on and we now have a second release candidate. If all goes well, the stable release should only be a few days away.
Juan Linietsky - 17 July 2018One of the features that make Godot stand out is how easy it is to use the physics engine for non-physics games. For Godot 3.1, several improvements are being worked on.
Juan Linietsky - 14 July 2018After some weeks of work, the new visual shader editor is ready for testing!
HP van Braam - 8 July 2018In Godot 3.0.5 we've fixed the Android APK export issue, a C# bug that only appeared on exported games, and several other small things. Get it while the gettin's good!
Rémi Verschelde - 2 July 2018After three days of intensive game development and two weeks of playtesting and rating (over 3,500 ratings!), we now have the results for our June 2018 Godot Community Game Jam! 110 games were submitted and reviewed, and the winners are: 1) "Fire and Fondness" by John Gabriel 2) "The Weather Guy" by Emilio and Andre Mari Coppola 3) "On Blazing Rails to Kansas City" by Dalton5000