Godot Weekly #9

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GODOT NEWS

The Penultimate 4.2 dev snapshot includes several enhancements. These improvements primarily focus on the Android plugin API and the Tilemap editor, but also extend to nearly all other areas of the software. As a result, the snapshot is expected to be ready for beta testing by next month.

MISCELLANEOUS

Comparing Performance of Godot vs Unity Game Engines

Juan Linietsky on why does GDScript exist

Godot protip: ALT+Rightclick onto an object in the scene to jump to any node in the scene tree!

Alfred Baudisch challenges the misconception: "do everything in the editor, visually & use GDScript and dozens of scattered small scripts".

Another pro tip: how to check our scene state at runtime

And another pro tip: how to mess with the game while it's running

(Article) Godot is not the new Unity - The anatomy of a Godot API call

Someone already benchmarked Godot for us and compared C# and GDScript

SHOWCASE

5 Games Made in Godot To UNIFY You

The StayAtHomeDev channel brings us regular highlights of games made in Godot. I'd like to show you games to inspire and awe you. I'm glad someone is making so much to curate a list like that already :-) Enjoy!

RESOURCES

You can use this GitHub Action to automatically create builds for all your favorite platforms within seconds every time you push a new change!

GodotEnv: A CLI tool written for managing Godot versions and addons

ASSETS

Kenney's Starter Kit 3D Platformer is a basic template for a 3D platformer game in Godot 4.1.1.stable.official

This Kenney pack has a bunch of game assets for use while prototyping any type of game

PLUGINS

Here's a list of essential addons and plugins for Godot

Import .unitypackage and other assets designed for Unity Engine as a Godot Addon

AssetPlacer is a plugin that makes 3D level design a breeze by allowing you to organize and group your assets effectively, place and align them fast, on a grid, on surfaces, or terrain. A must for a level designers and environment artists!

Ink (open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative) integration for Godot Engine.

Here's another list of essential Godot addons/plugins

Visualizing Signals in Godot... with a plugin

TUTORIALS

What you need to know about your Basic Project Settings. Do THIS Before You Publish Your Godot Game!

Do you want to make the perfect UI app in Godot?! Watch this tutorial!

What to do if you are working with pixel art and the Sprite looks blurry?

Godot Beginner Setup Tips and Quality of Life Tricks

Make Sure To Check These Two Settings in Godot Before Exporting To iOS

How to Export Project as Windows Executable File

How to export 3D models from Blender

How to do cloth simulation

How To Make A Top Down Shooter In Godot 4

Adding a Gravity Area for Easy Player Item Pickup Gathering

How we can get our own custom warnings in the node tree

How To Export To WebGL in Godot

How to Setup C# + Godot 4 + Visual Studio Code

What are Reources in Godot?

Do you need a roadmap on how to learn Godot as quick as possible?

The Checkbox We Searched FOR HOURS (10 Godot Engine Tricks We Wish We Knew Earlier)

Before we say goodbye!

I gotta say, I had more items curated than ever before. Did not manage to fit them all here... Maybe I should change the newsletter service. Do you have any suggestions?

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~~ GODOT NEWS ~~

~~ MISCELLANEOUS ~~

~~ SHOWCASE ~~

~~ RESOURCES ~~

~~ ASSETS ~~

~~ PLUGINS ~~

~~ TUTORIALS ~~