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Juan Linietsky  - 18 September 2017

Patreon: First goal achieved!

A little bit over a month ago we launched a Patreon campaign to improve our funding. The first goal, which is allowing our lead developer Juan Linietsky to work full time on the project, has been just met, which is amazing!! Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed!

Juan Linietsky  - 31 August 2017

We need your help to improve our documentation system!

Godot has grown a lot and, nowadays, and new users expect us to have quality documentation comparable to commercial offerings. For this, the documentation system we currently have needs tweaks and improvements. As we, game engine developers, are not experienced in the web side of the programming world, everything seems daunting to us (please don't laugh), so any help with the following items would be hugely appreciated!

Rémi Verschelde  - 26 August 2017

80% funded! Celebrating with a Patreon rewards upgrade

The first two weeks of our new Patreon campaign have been astounding, with more than $2,400/month pledged by the community to enable us to hire Juan full-time to work on Godot's development. We are 80% of the way up to that goal, and with your help to spread the news we might be able to reach our target $3,000 within a few days! To celebrate this huge progress, we upgraded our Patreon rewards to make them more accessible. We also took this opportunity to satisfy some legal requirements of being a non-profit charity, ensuring that no reward could be interpreted as a taxable business income.

Juan Linietsky  - 24 August 2017

A small defense of glTF 2.0 on its comparison against OpenGEX

This is a short article clarifying some on my views of why I believe glTF to be a great asset pipeline format, contrarily to the claims of Eric Lengyel's feature comparison of OpenGEX and glTF.

Juan Linietsky  - 11 August 2017

How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Many devs asked me to write about this for a long time, so sharing my experience for this process.

Juan Linietsky  -  9 August 2017

Support Godot on Patreon! Let's make the best game engine ever, together!

We are launching a Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/godotengine) to help fund Godot development. Help us develop Godot better and faster by becoming our Patron!

Juan Linietsky  -  3 August 2017

Why we should all support glTF 2.0 as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines

Khronos, with glTF 2.0, has given us a fantastic open standard for asset exchange format between 3D modelling software and game engines. Here's why we must make it succeed...

Rémi Verschelde  - 12 July 2017

Beta release for Python support

Emmanuel Leblond (touilleMan) just released the first beta of his Python for Godot interface, which will allow developers to use Python 3 and its complete ecosystem as a scripting language in Godot 3.0.

Nathan GDQuest  - 20 June 2017

Make 2d games with Godot, last day on Kickstarter

There are but a few days left on the Kickstarter campaign. It's been an enormous success, with over 4 times the initial goal! The backers unlocked every stretch goal, including 4 contributions to the official documentation. Here's what will improve in the coming year.

Nathan GDQuest  - 22 May 2017

Make Professional 2d Games with Godot: Kickstarter LIVE

Do you want to become a better game developer with Godot? GDquest, who makes game creation tutorials with open source tools, is on Kickstarter, with our full support!

Rémi Verschelde  - 15 May 2017

Godot course on Kickstarter next Monday!

GDquest, content creator and gamedev teacher of Krita and Godot fame, will soon start a Kickstarter campaign for a professional quality game creation course targeting the upcoming Godot 3! Among Godot developers, we are all thrilled about the project and want it to be a huge success, so mark the date and be sure to support the campaign!

Rémi Verschelde  - 16 February 2017

Only two buttons, but dozens of games!

Godot's Dec 2016 - Jan 2017 Community Game Jam ended with 41 entries, including some very interesting games! Check the jam winners in this post: Astrid - The Meow Night Shadow, 2 and 3, Two Taps Racer!

Juan Linietsky  -  2 January 2017

WARNING: HEAD is going unstable!

Starting now, and only for the upcoming 3.0 release, HEAD will break compatibility completely. Projects from Godot 1.x and 2.x **will not work** and this is expected.

Rémi Verschelde  - 31 October 2016

The Asset Library web frontend reaches beta

After several months of development, the web frontend to Godot's Asset Library finally reached the beta status!

Ariel Manzur  -  1 October 2016

Our point'n'click framework is finally out!

The long-awaited framework to create point & click adventure games, initially promised during the Kickstarter for The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizzaboy®, is finally available. It is of course open source, and comes with a great manual written by Ariel Manzur and the FLOSS Manuals FR team.

Juan Linietsky  - 10 August 2016

More programming languages in Godot, want to help?

There is a common misundertanding in the industry about us, Godot devs, trying to reinvent the wheel because we like it. This could not be further away from the truth.

Rémi Verschelde  - 14 July 2016

Help us complete Godot's API reference!

The class reference has seen a lot of work over the last 3 months, and could still use more hands to help document all the classes, methods, constants, member variables and signals for the complete Godot API! With a handful of contributors it's a huge job, but with the help of the community we can make it pretty fast!

Rémi Verschelde  - 27 June 2016

Showcase your Godot game on our website!

We added a Showcase page to the website, to show the world that yes, Godot is a great engine used to make creative and good looking games!

Juan Linietsky  - 22 June 2016

Mozilla awards Godot Engine as part of the MOSS “Mission Partners” program

Mozilla awards Godot Engine USD 20,000 as part of the MOSS “Mission Partners” program, to support the development of Godot's WebAssembly and WebGL 2 integration.

Rémi Verschelde  - 27 April 2016

Fill in the blank in the class reference

Godot's API reference is far from complete, but it's an effort to which every member of the community can partake! We organise a class reference writing campaign to aim towards 100% completion for Godot 2.1!

Rémi Verschelde  -  4 April 2016

The community forum is back!

Some members of the community have set up a new Godot Developers forum, with the contents from the old forum as well as many new features to showcase games and share content. We also set up an official YouTube channel for Godot and uploaded a showcase video of some very nice games developed with Godot!

Juan Linietsky  -  1 April 2016

Godot aims for mainstream

APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE! -- The most important feedback we got at GDC is that Godot is different from the most popular game engines, and thus confusing and quite badly known in the industry. So in order to become more popular we decided to make Godot more like the other mainstream engines, by taking some radical decisions.

Rémi Verschelde  - 21 February 2016

Home, sweet home

Godot Engine has a new home! A new website was designed from the ground up with a modular design, so that it can easily be extended and customized to fit our needs. You'll now find a Q&A section where the community can share its knowledge, and a new documentation system that can be contributed to directly via pull requests!

Juan Linietsky  - 14 February 2016

Open source Godot gets two years old!

On a day like today, two years ago Godot was open sourced.