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The sequel to the smash hit indie deck building game Slay the Spire was just announced at the Triple-I showcase. The reason why this is relevant to game developers is MegaCrit are one of the many developers that spoke out after the Unity runtime pricing change releasing the following statement: […]
Smash Indie Hit Sequel Slay the Spire 2 Made with Godot Read More
This is a casual, slightly unstructured tutorial covering the task of lighting in the Godot 4.x (Godot 4.2 specifically in this example) game engine. We cover topics including lighting and shadows, world environment, emissive textures, global illumination and more. The tutorial is video only and uses assets from the GameMasters
Godot 4.x 3D Tutorial: Lighting, Shadows and Global Illumination Read More
The GameMasters Toolkit Humble Bundle is a collection of assets, environments and tutorials for the Unreal, Unity and Godot game engines. It’s from Leartes Studios and is redeemed on their new Cosmos store. As with most Humble Bundles, this one is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier Unreal Engine Create Auto
GameMasters Toolkit Unreal, Unity & Godot Engine Humble Bundle Read More
The Mirror, a game engine first announced the end of 2022 have just made a big announcement at GDC 2024. They are going entirely open source, releasing both their networking backend and the custom fork of Godot Engine they use as a front end, under the MIT open source license.
The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source Read More
One of the major missing features of the Godot game engine compared to it’s peers is the complete lack of a Terrain system. Thankfully there are several add-ons and extension to address this shortcoming. Today we are looking at TerraBrush, a heightmap based terrain system for Godot 4.x created using
TerraBrush C# Based Terrain Add-On For Godot Read More
With the release of Godot 4 the built in FBX importer was removed and replaced with FBX2glTF. This gave better results than Godot 3.x FBX importing but was a pain to work with. Thankfully with the release of Godot 4.3 (starting with Godot 4.3 Dev 4) we have a new
Godot 4.3 Has a New FBX Importer Read More
W4 Games, a company formed by several key Godot developers to create a commercial ecosystem around the Godot game engine, just launched their second product (the first being W4 Console) W4 Cloud. W4 Cloud is a complete multiplayer stack for the Godot game engine providing the following features: The project
W4 Games Launch W4 Cloud Complete Godot Multiplayer Solution Read More
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle is a collection of low polygon asset packs from Synty Studios. While many of these assets have been featured in previous Humble Bundles, there are 4 completely new to
Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle Read More
Today we are checking out Sprite Fusion, a free to use browser based Tilemap editor. Sprite Fusion has integrated export for Unity and Godot, as well as GB Studio, PNG and JSON. Key features of Sprite Fusion include: Key Links Sprite Fusion Homepage Discord Server Editor App Link Alternative 2D
Sprite Fusion – Easy to Use Map Editor with Godot and Unity Support Read More
The Godot game engine removed it’s built-in Visual Scripting language with the release of Godot 4.0. Thanks however to the extensive (pun intended) extension system GDExtensions, it is possible for a tightly integrated replacement to be created. That is exactly what Orchestrator is, a drop in GDExtension based Visual Scripting
Orchestrator – Visual Scripting For Godot Read More
