With our 26th collaboration, the libGDX Jam continues the time-honoured tradition of making awesome games using the best framework out there. We encourage camaraderie, teamwork, and good sportsmanship with a side of well-intentioned buffoonery. The general jam rules can as always be found here. To participate take a look at the official itch.io page of the jam. The humorous jam trailer can be found on YouTube.

Announcing a bunch of engine improvements all across the board 🙂 Examples: New example: examples/animations/split_long_animation. Shows how to play subrange of an animation. Replaces older MD3 demo, which was no longer relevant (because CGE now reads animations from MD3 perfectly). Improved example: examples/tiled/strategy_game_demo. Shows selected unit, more instructions. It’s a fully playable game using Tiled. …

When you change a file loaded into it is now automatically reloaded at design-time. The editor detects changing file by CGE sprite sheet editor, or changing any file by an external application (e.g. updating glTF file by exporting new version from Blender). In the latter case, the model will be reloaded when you switch back …

Join us next week at the Godot booth during gamescom in Cologne from Wednesday the 23rd, to Friday the 25th. Don’t miss the chance to say hello to the Godot team!

Slowly but surely, Godot 3.6 is shaping up to be a great release. This third snapshot adds long awaited 2D physics interpolation, and another great optimization with 2D hierarchical culling.