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Love it or hate it, but NFTs are coming to the world of game development, or at least their money is. Open source game engines Phaser, Godot and Defold as well as Blender have just received a combined total of $300K USD in grants from the NFT themed company OP …
Godot, Blender, Defold and Phaser Receive Funding from NFT Company Read More
While I know many of you are… groan… waiting for Godot 4, today we got a pretty exciting release of the popular open source game engine. Godot 3.4 is here and it actually contains a ton of interesting new features including many back ported from Godot 4 development including improved …
Like Union Bytes Painter that we looked at earlier this week, HeavyPaint is another Godot Game Engine powered application. HeavyPaint is a streamlined painting application available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. The user interface is heavily customizable, it comes with several brushes and the focus is on getting …
Today a major change was made to the way you extend the Godot game engine with the merger of GDExtension code changes which will replace GDNative interface. Right now, GDNative is one of three ways you can extend the Godot game engine using the C or C++ programming languages. The …
A new project was just released for the Godot game engine, the Post Processing Tool. This is a simple project that makes enabling post processing effects extremely easy. Simply add the tools folder to your project and create an instance of PostProcessing_Tool.tscn. This will expose 9 different special effects to …
One of the strengths of the open source Godot Game Engine, is the ability to develop in different programming languages, including the popular Lua scripting language. In the past we looked at the programming language options when working with Godot and today we are going to be looking at a …
Even though development of Godot 4 is well under way, the Godot 3.x branch continues to receive updates, with the most recent full release being Godot 3.3 in April. Today we have the Beta 2 release of the Godot Game Engine with several new features, including one massive new feature, …
The developers behind the upcoming Godot 4 game engine have just announced that Godot 4 will only support the Vulkan graphics API. There was a massive rewrite of the rendering system in Godot 4 to support Vulkan graphics and this has made supporting OpenGL ES more and more difficult. As …
Today we are looking at a powerful 2D open source library for the Godot Game Engine that enables you to dynamically fracture 2D polygons. The Godot Polygon 2D Fracture project is available on Itch.io as well as having the source code hosted on GitHub under the MIT source license. The …
Fracture — 2D Polygon Fracturing Library For Godot Read More
There is a new Bundle of interest to game developers on Humble, the Learn Coding to Build Games 2021 Humble Bundle. This bundle is a collection of courses from Zenva covering a broad swath of game development topics including Godot, Unreal and Unity. As with all Humble Bundles this one …
