After several months of waiting (obligatory joke) and more importantly of development, the web frontend to Godot’s Asset Library finally reached the beta status!
What does it mean? That the Asset Lib frontend is now officially public and that the commu…

About shaders
For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. In reality, shaders are quite simple by default and just get more complex the more you add to them.
To explai…

A while ago, we had a Kickstarter for The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy®, and during the campaign we1 promised to release the framework we had made to develop the game as a standalone package. It took a while to finish the game …

October 1st, Hacktoberfest starts now and will last for the whole month!
What’s Hacktoberfest? The purpose of this event (run by DigitalOcean and GitHub) is to encourage people to contribute to open source projects by making pull requests. The incentiv…

Servers and RIDs
Architecture
If you ever lurked in Godot source code, and tried to follow the flow of the logic, you most likely noticed that most code related to scene, formats, etc. always ends up in a giant server class. These really large classes,…

Image
Godot has many built-in types. Built-in types are used for non-pointer API arguments, where you need to pass around information fast and you don’t really care much about keeping a reference.
One of the early built-in types in Godot is Image, whic…

High level please!
Up to now, Godot networking was only limited to UDP, TCP and some high level protocols such as SSL and HTTP.
However, for games themselves, the key is how to synchronize state between games. Having to do this manually with low level …

Why more languages, isn’t GDScript enough?
There is a common misundertanding about us in the industry: Godot devs, always trying to reinvent the wheel because we like it. This could not be further away from the truth.
The reality is that we are extreme…

Godot 2.1 stable is here!
After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvellous Godot Engine 2.1. Just like 2.0, this version focuses almost exclusively on further improving usability and the editor interface.
This release …