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Foundation News
🎖️ Battlefield Studios Sponsorship After incorporating the Godot Engine in Battlefield 6’s portal platform, Battlefield Studios has sponsored the Godot Foundation at the Corporate Platinum level.
📱 Creating games entirely on Android! - Since 2023, Godot users could develop their games on Android, but they still needed a PC to perform the final export. Today, we’re happy to announce that GABE, the Godot Android Build Environment, is now stable.
🫙 Godot XR Community Game Jam V - The fifth Godot XR Community Game Jam ran from 16 March 2026 until 23 March 2026. We had 98 participants join, who submitted 23 games. Up from 90 participants and 21 games last jam. There is a definite improvement in the quality of the entries.
🛒 Introducing the Godot Asset Store - The Asset Library has served for many years as the official place to publish and acquire assets, fulfilling a valuable community need. However with the rapid growth of the Godot community and ecosystem, it was time to go back to the drawing board.
🎬 Godotcon Amsterdam Talks - The talks held at this year’s Amsterdam GodotCon have finally been released into the wild, sharing knowledge of all kinds with the community. Check them out on Godot’s official YouTube channel!
Releases:
📦 Godot 4.7 Release - Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. Inject some juice to your UI without breaking a sweat using the new Control offset transforms. Find the plugin that will help push your game even further with the new Asset Store, bask in the ease of creation with standalone Android exporting and publishing, and helm a bevy of new features to eliminate any remaining friction between you and your vision.
📦 Maintainance Release 4.6.5 - Progress on Godot 4.7 has continued without a hitch, but the need for more 4.6 maintenance releases remains ever-present. Our commitment to active support brings us to today’s release of Godot 4.6.3.
Community News
🎊 GodotSteamKit Release - The GodotSteamKit is now finally live for the public. GodotSteam aims to make Godot Engine a little more powerful with the Steamworks SDK.
Community showcase and tutorials
📋 Cheatsheet Viewer - Pin images like cheatsheets on top of each other in the editor! Never forget the pesky syntax again!
🔥 Fire Shader VFX Tutorial - Learn how to create a stunning, stylized 3D fire shader in Godot! In this step-by-step tutorial, we take a simple 3D cylinder and use shader math to transform it into a dynamic, swirling fire effect.
🌹 @icons - A free and open-source library of 500+ vector (SVG) icons, designed to fit with the existing set of editor icons.
Indie releases
🐦 Flock Around - Flock Around is a multiplayer bird watching game. Explore a nature sanctuary with friends, snap pictures of birds, and fill out the guide book!
💿 Wax Heads - Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
🥥 Bravest Coconut - Bravest Coconut is a Point & Click Adventure game without pointing and clicking. Help Coco the cat as her quest to return a library book becomes much more complicated than she thought. Solve story-driven puzzles, fight monsters, and explore the beautiful valley in this retro hand-pixeled adventure.
FOSS tools
⚙ GDUnit4 - GdUnit4 is an embedded unit testing framework designed for testing Gdscript, C#, and scenes in the Godot editor.
🏷 Yard - A Godot 4 plugin for managing and querying collections of resources, with a spreadsheet-like editor and a lightweight runtime API.
🔊 Godot Audio Debugger - Real-time audio debugging tool for Godot 4 projects.
🔧 Godot Bevy - Bring the power of Bevy to your Godot projects.
Upcoming Game Jams
⚙️ GMTK Game Jam 2026 - (July 22nd to July 26th) The GMTK Game Jam is an annual game making marathon, where individuals and teams try to make a game that fits a theme, in a super short time period.
🔶 Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 - (August 23rd to August 30th) The Brackeys Game Jam runs twice a year and is a fun way to try out ideas, meet other devs and talk about your games and their progress.
🍓 Gwueble Jam 2026 - (July 19th to July 27th) A week long game jam hosted by YouTubers Queble and Gwizz.
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This newsletter was written by Emi, Nicholas O., Kai Koehler, Gramps, and WinnerWind.
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