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Foundation News

📦 Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1

Godot 4.5 has entered beta and is now feature-complete. Find some of the new features coming up in the next stable release!

🥨 A new convention to look forward to: GodotFest

Introducing the second annual Godot convention: GodotFest 25 - GodotCon Europe! 11th, 12th of November in Munich, Germany.

🌐 Upcoming (serious) Web performance boost

Adam wrote about a performance boost coming to web exports:

🤖 What's New in Android & XR

Fredia shares some numbers, the status of the Android and the XR editors, hybrid apps, Android APIs integrations and more!

📈Optimizing 3D scenes in Godot on Arm GPUs

Clay John, our rendering lead, wrote a post sharing some insights into the optimization process for mobile devices using Arm Performance Studio

Community showcase and tutorials

🏜️ Dune | A Godot Environment

A recreation of a scene from Dune (2021) in Godot by Lander Van Regenmortel

👾 3D PixelArt Tutorial

Eduardo Shildt shares his technique making 3D scenes look like crispy pixel art. Project files included!

📺 Complete Godot 4.4 Course for Beginners

A new several hours long complete introduction to Godot by Daniel Buckley.

⚙️ Setting up pixel art graphics in Godot 4

Setting up pixel art graphics is pretty easy in Godot but it's not always easy to know where to look.

Indie releases

🎒 Backpack Battles

A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.

🎴 Crown Gambit

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil.

🧙 Tower Wizard

Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

🛠️ CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator

CraftCraft is a story-based RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting! Create a pretty necklace for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood!

FOSS tools

Made with/for Godot

🐧 Godot addons from Cozy Cube Games

Zi, the developer behind Penguin Festival, keeps publishing amazing tools for all Godot devs out there.

🌱 SimpleGrassTextured

A plugin for Godot 4 that allows you to add grass and plants to your scene in a simple way by IcterusGames.

⚡ GodAmp

A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in Godot, with full cross-platform support.

We would like to welcome Player2 as a Corporate Gold sponsor on the Godot Development Fund. Player2 is an AI-powered gaming platform that enables players and indie developers to build, play, and share AI-driven NPC mods and games. They are running a game jam at itch.io with up to $1000 in prizes and they made a blog post showing how to use their NPC tools in Godot if you want to participate.

🙏 Thank you Player2 for supporting the development of Godot!

Palate Cleanser

I Understand It Now

I'm brand new to Godot but have some experience with C++ and Rust. This was me about 20 minutes ago.

Using the astronauts looking at earth meme template: - Wait, they're all just classes. - Always have been.

User UpstairsPrudent7898 shared on reddit

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