HP van Braam - 25 July 2018Why we broke your PR
As some of you probably noticed a lot of PRs on the backlog now need a rebase because of PR 20137
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Rémi Verschelde - 25 July 2018GSoC 2018 progress report #1
Godot 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 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7
After all the light types are implemented, the next step is to implement shadow mapping, with all its frustrating implementation details ;)
George Marques - 22 July 2018Optional typing in GDScript
Exposing the new addition to GDScript: optional type hints and all the perks it brings.
Rémi Verschelde - 19 July 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 2.1.5 RC2
Some 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 2018Godot 3.1 will get many improvements to KinematicBody
One 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 2018Visual Shader Editor is back
After some weeks of work, the new visual shader editor is ready for testing!
HP van Braam - 8 July 2018Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.5
In 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 2018Results of the Godot Jam - June 2018
After 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
Rémi Verschelde - 27 June 2018Godot at the RMLL / LSM 2018 in Strasbourg, July 7-12
Godot will be at the Libre Software Meeting 2018 (also known as RMLL – Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) in Strasbourg, France from Saturday 7 July to Thursday 12 July. We will give a 1-hour talk, a 3-hour workshop and will have a Godot booth for the whole duration of the event.
Juan Linietsky - 26 June 2018Godot gets new Animation Tree + State Machine
After a long time coming, and as part of this trend of modernizing many old godot subsystems, the animation tree has been rewritten from scratch and it's now brand new, with plenty of new features.
HP van Braam - 22 June 2018Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.4
Godot 3.0.4 is a small release that fixes a crasher in the asset library on Windows. If you were affected by this please upgrade. Otherwise we'll come back with a larger 3.0.5 soon!
Bastiaan Olij - 19 June 2018Godot Leap Motion Support
Leap Motion hand tracking support arrives with Godot 3.0.3
Rémi Verschelde - 15 June 2018The Godot Jam starts now, theme: Temperature
With a slight delay, the Godot Community Game Jam is now starting and we can announce the theme that was elected by the community: TEMPERATURE! The jam starts today (Friday 15 June) at 19:30 UTC and will end on Monday 18 June at 23:59:59 UTC. Have fun and good luck!
HP van Braam - 13 June 2018Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.3
Godot 3.0.3! In this release we've enable C# exporting for desktop platforms and fixed many bugs.
Rémi Verschelde - 13 June 2018Vote for the Godot Jam's theme!
As announced a few days ago, we will have a Godot Community Game Jam the coming week-end, from Friday 15 June at 18:00 UTC to Monday 18 June at 23:59 UTC. It's now time to vote to select the final theme for the jam: https://framaforms.org/theme-for-godot-jam-june-2018-1528803026
Rémi Verschelde - 9 June 2018Upcoming Godot Jam on 15-18 June, theme proposals
It's been a loooong time since our previous Godot Community Game Jam in December 2016! We'll host a new one next week-end, from Friday 15 June to Monday 18 June, see the https://itch.io/jam/godotjam062018 for more details.
Juan Linietsky - 7 June 2018Godot gets a brand new animation editor (with cinematic support)
The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). The new one builds upon the strengths of the previous one but does massive improvements to features and usability.
HP van Braam - 7 June 2018Godot APK Fixer tool
We have released a tool to repair APK files released with older versions of Godot. A fix for this will also be integrated in upcoming Godot releases.
Rémi Verschelde - 6 June 2018Importing 3D assets from Blender (GameDev.tv)
Guest blog post by Michael Bridges from GameDev.tv, explaining how to import 3D models and animations from Blender using Godot's "Better" Collada exporter.
karroffel - 6 June 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6
The GLES2 backend is getting closer and closer to completion, this progress report shows a detailed overview of the steps taken to implement PBR.
HP van Braam - 2 June 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0.3 RC 3
Godot 3.0.3 RC3 is out! We've done a lot of work to make the mono export experience better for Windows users. Please help us test and debug this release!
Juan Linietsky - 25 May 2018Fixing Godot games published in Google Play
After games being published using Godot on Google Play for almost 8 years with no problems, Google decided they don't like the format we use for exporting any more and is suspending many published games. Here's how to fix your APK to upload it again.
Rémi Verschelde - 21 May 2018Ben Tristem & GameDev.tv are kickstarting a Godot course
Ben Tristem and his GameDev.tv team, authors of many best-selling game development courses on the online platform Udemy, are now kickstarting a Godot Engine course! They strongly believe in Godot and want to make top quality content for all kinds of users. Ben tells us in a video what they like in Godot and why they are so enthusiastic about it.