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Foundation News

📦 Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 7 - Will this be the last beta for the Godot 4.5 release cycle? Help us find every bug!

🎥 Our 2025 showreel is open for submissions - Submit videos of your Godot games, tools, and projects and have them voted on by development fund members and godot maintainers alike. Submissions close on October 1st.

✨ Jetbrains joins as a Platinum Sponsor of the Godot foundation - Jetbrains makes developer tools and fully featured IDEs, such as Rider, which supports godot out of the box and is free for non-commercial use.

🐶 Godot Showcase - Dogwalk - Julien Kaspar and Simon Thommes from Blender Studio tell us about their experience developing their first ever game “Dogwalk”.

📈 Community Poll results - The 2025 community poll is over! You can check the results to learn more about the Godot community.

🥽 Godot OpenXR Vendors Plugin v4 - What’s new in the latest release of the Godot OpenXR Vendors plugin?

📺 GodotCon Boston playlist - If you were not able to attend the GodotCon 2025 in Boston, you can watch all the talks in the Godot YouTube channel.

Community showcase and tutorials

🕹️ The GMTK Game jam for 2025 - With the tiny amount of 9,606 games made for the jam, 39% of them were made in godot! (https://bsky.app/profile/gamemakerstoolkit.com/post/3lvkrymak5s26)

🪖 Battlefield’s Portal Using Godot - During a livestream, EA shared news about the return of modding tools using Godot as the main editor.

🪟 Procedural Stained Glass - In this devblog RachelfTech forked Godot to enable projector based volumetric lighting for stained glass.

💾 3 Ways I Manage Game Data in Godot - Aarimous goes over some strategies to manage data based on his experience making Godot games.

Indie releases

🧩 Strange Jigsaws - A game of strange jigsaws.

🎸 Kill The Music - Kill The Music is a Rhythm Action Roguelite about defeating hordes of enemies with musical instruments.

⚰️ Draftula - One of the winners of the GMTK Game Jam! Build up the castle by placing rooms strategically to get bonuses. Spend Gems between centuries to get new rooms and build your home ever higher.

🌏 Planetary Life - Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

🎴 The Royal Writ - Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy.

Good luck to all the games coming out in September! (Yes. This is about Silksong 🥲)

FOSS tools

Made with/for Godot

🪐 Godot Gravity Fields - Mario Galaxy like gravity fields in Godot

🔊 Oscillody - Oscillody is a free, real-time, oscilloscope-based audio visualizer. You can import up to 4 stems, customize the visualizer, and export the result as a video.

🐝 Beehave - Beehave is a powerful addon for Godot Engine that enables you to create robust AI systems using behavior trees.

🖼️ Shapeify - Recreate your images with simple shapes

Hung directly over my PC, so I’ll never have to look it up again

User SteelLunpara shared on reddit

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This newsletter was written by Emi with help from Kai Koehler and WinnerWind.

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