While we’re busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 and 3.4 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 beta 5 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 branch regularly for maintenance releases (see our release policy).
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In the past month, the team has been hard at work introducing the new native extensions system for Godot 4.0. GDExtension is a new implementation of the GDNative layer that allows the creation of compiled plugins for the engine. At its core, GDExtensio…

Enjoy much faster PNG loading on Android now, as the libpng library is automatically packaged with your applications. Various measurements, like this one, or testing “The Unholy Society” UI loading time confirm that the speedup is huge, even more than 10x compared to previous FpImage that we used on Android. In general, there’s no need …

Our FMOD sound backend, that integrates CGE with the FMOD sound system, supports now 3D (spatial) sounds. This means that sound position in 3D is reflected in your ears — things that are closer are louder, things that are on your right are mostly in your right speakers etc. The improvements outlined here make our …

Howdy Godotters! Time for another update on Godot 4.0’s multiplayer networking.
We have been really busy working on the foundation of the networking and multiplayer classes lately, and there are quite a few new features to talk about. In this post, we’…

We have a new shiny API to play sounds in Castle Game Engine! I think it’s a major improvement over the previous API (that revolved around TSoundBuffer and TSound classes). The new API is easier to use: It hides some internal constraints (a limited internal number of sounds that can be mixed simultaneously, or impossibility …

Here comes a new progress report about the Tiles editor rework. This is most likely the last progress report before the 4.0 alpha. The previous blog post can be found here.
Tile atlas editing
Some improvements were made to the tile atlas editor.
I fir…