News : Release candidates: Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & 4.2.2 RC 3

On April 12, 2024, the team development announces on the official blog the new release of the Godot game engine.

Here’s the final round of release candidates for Godot 4.1.4 and 4.2.2, which I aim to release as stable in a few days.

The previous RC 2 builds were already fairly solid, but GDC 2024 and Easter holidays delayed the stable release a bit. And since a few more important bug fixes were merged in the meantime, I decided to do a final batch of cherry-picks and thus a third release candidate to validate them.

I used the dev version of godot game engine, and the RC - Release Candidate version version is more stable and comes with a significant milestone in the software development lifecycle.

Godot : Making a map using autotiles! Grand Strategy Game DevLog #2 | Godot.

... this is second video tutorial from Good Solution Interactive to create a real 2D map ...

You can see some videos on this official youtube channel.

Godot 4: Warped plasma shader (tutorial) from FencerDevLog.

News : Godot Engine - 2023 Showreel ...

News : Godot free nintendo switch support !

Seams the Godot will get free support from Nintendo Switch, see more on the Gamefromscratch YouTube channel.

Godot : 25 (more) advanced tips and tricks | Godot 4

... do you know this YouTube channel named Octodemy? Let's see this video intro tutorial:

News : From Shadertoy to Godot 4: Learn to convert the shader code (tutorial) !

... this is not current news, but it is informative and, you can see more on youtube channel named FencerDevLog.

Godot : Simulating 100K Boids with Compute Shaders in Godot - Part 1 from niceeffort1.

This confirms the Godot team's effort to implement new features and users are increasingly interested in the development area.

Check out this video tutorial from niceeffort1.

GodotOS - The Godot Powered Operating System! from Gamefromscratch.

While a "fun" project, it's also an interesting learning opportunity for people looking to learn how to use the Godot game engine to create non-gaming applications. You can also write and contribute your own "GodotOS" powered apps to the operating system.

News : Released snapshot of Godot 4.3!

The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.

You can find this release on the official webpage.

NOTE: this snapshot will solve android with NET ...

To export to Android, .NET 7.0 or later is required. To export to iOS, .NET 8.0 is required. Make sure to set the target framework in the .csproj file.

News : Godot 4.2 arrives in style!

Earlier this year we stepped into the future of Godot with the release of Godot 4.0, and 4 months later we followed it up with Godot 4.1 which was full of new features and improvements. Today we are proud to announce the release of Godot 4.2, our latest and greatest offering to game developers looking for a free and open engine that inspires joy and creativity!

Over the course of the last 5 months 359 contributors submitted more than 1800 improvements for this release, and we cannot thank each of them enough for their dedication and relentless spirit, their trust in the project, and their generosity. We also must express our love for everyone reporting issues during the testing period and helping us make sure that thousands of Godot users get the best version of the engine we can collectively create.

You can read more on this stable version on the official website.

Godot : 5 Godot 4 Add-ons You Should REALLY Try.

Some addons from ... Mustache Tutorials youtube channel!

Godot : I got A JOB in the GAMES INDUSTRY! from GameDev Journey.

See more on the GameDev Journey youtube channel :

... the author say make the demo based on this download from wrobot.itch.io:

News : Godot new beta release version 4.2-beta5.

The new beta release of the Godot game engine can be downloaded from the official website.

Personalized note :

I tested this in the last three months and it is very impressive in terms of fast development.

If you want to have a fast development for your game then you need to make a break.

The changes from the last versions 4. x, 4.1, and 4.2 are huge in A.P.I. and GDScripts and GDShaders the changes in the documentation are not fully updated.

However, if you have experience and have used Godot before, then I do not recommend to losing it.

A simple game without the special effects of tic-tok or ping pong for Android is made in a few tens of minutes.

For more complicated tasks involving project management, it might block you. Without taking into account the part of building the graphic elements.

Another important element is that the transparency of this game engine is ensured by the project displayed in the GitHub repo.

Godot : How can I use the remote transform to move along a path in Godot 4?

Another video from GDQuest Q&A.

Godot : LIDAR effect in game.

This is good idea to add LIDAR effect into your game, by Phantasy Dev youtube channel.

How I Made 10.000 unique Characters! by Lukky.

A good video from the Lukky YouTube video channel about Godot features.

News : 5 games from StayAtHomeDev.

You can find more on this channel named StayAtHomeDev.

About Flax vs Godot - Physics Comparison [PhysX vs Godot Physics vs Godot Jolt]

You can see a comparison between Flax engine and Godot engine in BerryDev's youtube channel.

About the Flax engine you can find it on this official website.

News : New shaders for my game.

As you know, I had some problems with Unity 3D and the game project North. The reason was the non-activation of the Windows OS operating system and some network problems. That's how we continued from the beginning with the Godot game engine that switched to the C# language. At this moment I worked on some shaders. The new version I'm working on is 4.1.2 and it's still not very well documented for the custom implementation of Godot shaders with gdshader type files.

Here are some new examples:

Halo sun shader

Smoke sphere shader

Basic fire shader