At long last, Godot 2.1.5 is ready and comes packed with new features and bug fixes! It’s the result of 11 months of work (since 2.1.4) from many contributors who care about supporting our previous stable branch (the current one and main focus being Go…

As some of you probably noticed a lot of PRs on the backlog now need a rebase because of PR 20137. This post is to explain why.
Godot has a copy on write or ‘CoW’ feature for a lot of its data structures. What this means in practice is basically that:
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For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). We have five students working on some great projects to add new features to the engine, either via C++ modules, GDNative plugins or external plugins. See our previous…

Introduction
After all the light types are implemented, the next step is to implement shadow mapping, with all its frustrating implementation details 😉
Roadmap
Done June 2018

finish lights
implement shadow atlas
depth rendering for shadow mapping
spo…

While GDScript is made with the ease-of-use in mind, many people wanted to add type information into their scripts. This helps avoiding potential bugs and also allows a better code completion. We’re now introducing an additional syntax to add type hint…

Here it is a new version of raylib ! In raylib 2.0 the full API has been carefully reviewed for better consistency, some new functionality has been added and the overall raylib experience has been gr…

Yes, you read correctly: Godot 2.1.5 is still being worked on, four months after the previous release candidate and close to one year after the 2.1.4 stable release!
I planned to release it much sooner, but 3.0 and its subsequent maintenance releases h…

KinematicBody
One of the features that make Godot stand out is how easy it is to use the physics engine for non-physics games.
KinematicBody allows controlling a character entity around with a single function (move_and_slide). Simply pass a linear velo…

After some weeks of work, the new visual shader editor is ready for testing!
What is a visual shader editor?
This editor allows creating shaders using nodes and connections, instead of typing code. It provides a simple and fool-proof way for those not …