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Rémi Verschelde  - 11 April 2019

Godot Engine awarded $50,000 by Mozilla Open Source Support program

We 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  -  1 April 2019

Godot Engine to go public in 2019

APRIL 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.

Nathan GDQuest  - 31 January 2019

GDquest Kickstarter Stretch Goals, Free Tutorials and Demos

The Kickstarter got funded in 4 days! We're hard at work on new tutorials and demos you can get right now. We've also announced 3 stretch goals to contribute more Free content for the entire community.

Nathan GDQuest  - 18 January 2019

GDquest Kickstarter: learn 2d and 3d game creation with Godot

We are crowdfunding 2d and 3d training series for Godot once again! With our last campaign, we made both paid and free tutorials, contributed to the official documentation, and to Godot's demos. We want to do more, but for that, we need your help.

Nathan GDQuest  -  6 January 2019

Introducing Japanese indies to Godot

Godot isn't well-known in Japan just yet, like in many other countries all around the world. I got the chance to present it to indie developers in Tokyo and in Kyoto. Here's a quick report and an example of how you can help raise awareness about the engine where you are.

Juan Linietsky  - 23 November 2018

Godot Patreon and goals updated, help us hire Pedro Estébanez

It has been a year since we started actively asking for donations. Thanks to that, I could work paid for an entire year so far (which has resultend in dozens of new features and helping a huge amount of contributors).

Juan Linietsky  - 19 November 2018

Will your contribution be merged? Here's how to tell

The pull request workflow is great, because it allows proposing changes to the codebase in a way where they can be evaluated, reviewed (with feedback) and eventually merged or rejected. Despite this, a large amount of pull requests get rejected for reasons that are often unclear to new contributors, so this article aims at clarifying the process and underlying motives for PR reviewers' decisions.

Nathan GDQuest  -  5 November 2018

Open ARPG and JRPG demos on GDquest

Join our Open Projects on GDquest! Moving forward, we want to code great game demos together, have fun, learn, and produce better educational resources for the entire community.

Nathan GDQuest  -  5 October 2018

Godot Slides: gamified slideshows made in Godot

Build 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 2018

Become a Godot contributor for Hacktoberfest 2018

Hacktoberfest 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 2018

Welcoming our new gold sponsor: ImageCampus

Godot 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.

Juan Linietsky  -  8 September 2018

Hero wanted! (3.1 version)

Looking 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!

Bastiaan Olij  - 19 June 2018

Godot Leap Motion Support

Leap Motion hand tracking support arrives with Godot 3.0.3

HP van Braam  -  7 June 2018

Godot 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 2018

Importing 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.

Juan Linietsky  - 25 May 2018

Fixing 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 2018

Ben 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.

Rémi Verschelde  - 17 April 2018

Godot's documentation is now open for translation

Godot has been around for over 4 years, and localized documentation in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Russian and many other languages has always been a very requested feature. After a lot of documentation work to ensure that we have a good original English content to translate from, and some more work on setting up a convenient infrastructure for translating and keeping translations up to date, we are now ready to welcome contributions!

Rémi Verschelde  - 27 March 2018

Godot project management 101

As we just reached our third goal on Patreon, we are now able to hire Rémi Verschelde (Akien) as full-time project manager and representative! In this article, he gives some insights on what brought him to Godot, how he helped organize the teamwork and became the de facto project manager, as well as plans for the future.

Pedro J. Estébanez  - 20 March 2018

Sketchfab integrates with Godot

Sketchfab is a well-known site where you can browse a big library of 3D models and download them for use in your own projects. Many of them are free, covered by open licenses. They have just announced their download API, which allows third-parties to integrate with it, giving any application access to hundreds of thousands of models in glTF, a standard format that many tools, Godot included, understand. They have integrations for other famous game engines, like Unity and Unreal and have decided to provide an official plugin for Godot!

Juan Linietsky  - 26 February 2018

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

The rationale for the OpenGL ES 3 renderer was having a single codebase for targeting all platforms. This sounds really good in theory and we could say it *almost* works, but...

Juan Linietsky  -  8 January 2018

Next Patreon goal: Help us hire Rémi Verschelde (Akien) full time!

So far we have been a few months on Patreon and the net result has been overwhelmingly positive, as we get enough funds each month to hire our lead developer and an intern! Still, it's time to start thinking about our next hire to continue speeding up Godot's development as well as its visibility and relevance in the gamedev industry.

Pedro J. Estébanez  -  9 December 2017

Let people touch Godot!

Maybe you have already seen an AdPod around. They are three-sided giant multitouch capable screens. The company behind them customizes them for very important customers for promotion campaings for things like movies (Disney, Universal). They "skin" the device cosmetically for the targeted product and develop interactive apps that run on them. People walking by can interact with them, something which creates great product awareness and also entertains. Now they have decided to use Godot for such development work! The switch from the well-known non-free engine they were using formerly has been a wise decision.

Juan Linietsky  -  6 December 2017

Hero Wanted campaign for fixing final bugs launches!

We are all working hard on fixing the remaining issues for delivering a stable Godot 3.0 as soon as possible, but we definitely need a hand to speed up the work!