The Nodeletter

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🌷 GodotCon Amsterdam - Save the date!

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The official GodotCon returns to Europe, teaming up with the Dutch Games Association to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

Dates → 23rd and 24th of April
Time → 10:00–18:00
Location → Pathé Amsterdam Noord, Buikslotermeerplein 2003, 1025 XL Amsterdam, Netherlands

Read more about it in the GodotCon website and be sure to check out the blog post for a quick overview!

Foundation News

🏃‍♂️ Inverse Kinematics Returns to Godot 4.6 - In Godot 4.6, IK is back in 3D!

Releases:

🚀 Godot 4.6, All about your flow - With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, the engine has matured enough to enter a new development phase. Godot 4.6 kicks off a period of polish, quality-of-life improvements, tighter integration of industry standards, and doubled-down effort on performance optimization.

📦 Dev Snapshot: Godot v4.7 dev1 - All the colors of the rainbow (and more?)

Community showcase and tutorials

✨ Node FX - Create snappy animations for 3D, 2D, and control nodes with a single line of code using this Godot library.

💡 Lighting in Godot for Beginners - Learn how to light beautiful scenes in this Godot tutorial. By Brackeys!

🎨 Pixelorama - Check out this MIT-licensed pixel art tool, made entirely in Godot!

🗃️ Godot SQLite - A custom SQL wrapper for GDScript intending to provide SQLite3 database support in Godot.

🛣️ Godot Road Generator - Time to hit the road with this road construction plugin, allowing easy editing and traffic pathing!

Indie releases

📋 TR-49 - A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven’s Vault and A Highland Song.

⚔️ Tearscape - As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive.

🖥️ Execute - Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

🌌 A Game About Feeding A Black Hole - A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying asteroids, planets, and stars.

FOSS tools

💥 Ridiculous Coding - Make your coding experience 1000x more ridiculous by adding screenshake and other such effects every time you type.

🔤 ASCII UI Tools - An open source ASCII toolkit for Godot, providing tools to develop ASCII style games in Godot.

🔶 Smart Shape 2D - A simple 2d terrain curve plugin for Godot, allowing the effortless creation of simple textured curved terrain.

🧍Rigidotify - Optimize your Blender to Godot rigging workflow with this helpful open-source plugin.

A reminder from our meme Connoisseur SteinMakesGames:

A comic with two images. One with the caption 'The Artist' saying: Aw man, that game idea has already been made. The second one with the caption 'The Audience' saying: holy shit! two indie games!

See you next time?

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

Bye ✨