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A common question I receive is, can I use C++ with the Godot game engine. If you are looking to do live game scripting like in Unreal Engine, the short answer is no, you cannot do that with Godot. You can however develop in Godot using C++ in three different ways.Native DevelopmentThe first option is […]
Godot just got a new feature for the upcoming Godot 4.0 release, SDFGI, or Signed Distance Field Global Illumination. It is described accordingly on the Godot website:SDFGI stands for Signed Distance Field Global Illumination. It means this technique makes heavy use of Signed Distance Fields (an Euclidean distance based representation of the signed distance function […]
The Godot open source game engine just released version 3.2.2. While primarily a maintenance release, there are several great new features including:C# support for the iOS platform2D batching for the GLES2 rendererre-architected Android plugin systemDTLS and ENET integrationUpdated and localized documentationHundreds of bug fixes and improvementsYou can read complete details of the update here, and […]
Godot 3.2.2 Released Read More
Thanks in part to a $50,000 award from the Mozilla foundation, the Godot game engine is gaining the ability to be run in a web browser. You can try it out right here if you have the latest version of a Chrome based browser, or Firefox Nightly.Explanation for the rationale for Godot in a Browser […]
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Today we are talking about Heroic Lab’s Nakama. Nakama is an open source (as well as hosted and managed) solution for the networking side of the game development side of game development. In October of 2019, Heroic Labs became a premium sponsor of the Godot Game Engine. This week Heroic Labs announced they are now […]
Heroic Labs Nakama Sponsor Defold Read More
Concept Graph is perhaps the single most impressive plugin I have seen yet for the Godot game engine. It aims to bring the world of procedural content generation to the Godot game engine and quite frankly, even in an early experimental state, it succeeds. Even in my short hands-on time with Concept Graph, I can […]
Concept Graph–Procedural Content Generation For Godot Read More
Yesterday we talked about Rider for Unreal Engine, but did you also know that Rider can be used to develop Godot games as well?There are a few things you are going to need to get started. First off obviously is JetBrain’s Rider, which is available with in a 30 day free trial. However if you […]
There have been several minor stories in the world of game development. Too small to be covered on their own, but significant enough to be covered in this summary.This week’s game development announcements include:Xenko Game Engine Now Called StrideThe Xenko open source game engine has just been renamed to Stride. This was due to Trademark […]
Godot Reels Released – Corona and Xenko Renamed Read More
There are a trio of recent development updates over on the Godot news website. Today we take a look at the 3 major updates that have been made recently. Keep in mind that Godot 4.0 is heavily under development and in no way should be used for production work! If you do not want to […]
Godot 4 Development Updates Read More
PixelORama is a free, open source (MIT licensed) pixel art application written using the Godot game engine in GDScript. Version 0.5 was just recently released with the following features:Choosing between 6 tools – pencil, eraser, fill bucket, lighten/darken, color picker and rectangle select – and mapping them to both of your left and right mouse […]
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