Yuri Roubinsky - 22 May 2019With the Godot 3.1 release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x ancestor. While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. A new update has been prepared for Godot 3.2 to solve this problem.
Fabio Alessandrelli - 21 May 2019Godot's WebRTC interface is getting STUN/TURN support, and now allows you to create multiple reliable or unreliable data channels. WebRTC GDNative support for non-HTML5 platforms can now works as a drop-in library without any extra configuration. Some hints on incoming multiplayer support.
HP van Braam - 27 April 2019Godot 3.1.1-stable is released, the first maintenance release of the 3.1 series. In this release we've fixed an important security issue related to networking, added some nice quality of life improvements to the animation editor, and fixed several bugs.
Juan Linietsky - 24 April 2019Godot has the simplest and most efficient Android deploy system you can find in any game engine. With a single click, your project is runing on the phone. With a single option (network fs deploy) your gigabyte-sized project is running on your device in mere seconds. You can use the editor to debug your running game while it runs on your device and you can make changes in the scenes or scripts and they will reflect in real-time in your phone or tablet. The big drawback, however, was that adding plugins was a pain in the butt.
HP van Braam - 23 April 2019Welcome to Godot 3.1.1-rc1. In this release candidate we fix a security issue, add many nice new features, and fix many bugs. Please test and let us know how we did!
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
