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Catlike Coding Godot adds an optional tiling toggle to its procedural GPU noise work, keeping it off by default. The update also documents the tiling requirements with a multiline shader …
GameFromScratch reports that Godot 4.8 has moved two steps closer with Dev6 and Dev7, likely the last development builds before beta. For teams tracking engine stability, that usually means the …
Godot Engine says 4.8 dev 7 is the last feature snapshot before freeze, shifting the branch to bugfixes and regressions ahead of beta. For teams tracking engine upgrades, this one …
GameFromScratch reports that Gozen, a free and open-source video editor built with Godot, has entered beta on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Developers can build it from source for free, or …
Catlike Coding Godot adds a variant smooth01() helper for value-noise sampling in Godot shaders, letting developers choose linear, smooth, or smoother blending. The practical win is control: use smoother interpolation …
Acerola breaks down how a blur can be pushed to 20,000 FPS, or about 50 microseconds per frame, by treating it as a shader and sampling problem instead of a …
Gamefromscratch reports that Action Game Maker’s Massive 2.0 beta is trying to make the Maker-branded Godot fork feel like a real product, not just a paid wrapper. The June 2025 …
XBox Wire details how solo dev John Pywell spent five years building Fountains, a Metroidvania now launching on Xbox. The game leans hard into mystery, with minimal guidance, Dark Souls-style …
Godot 4.8 dev 6 lands sooner than usual after macOS startup crashes and Android Play Store upload failures were fixed. The snapshot also adds screen-space contact shadows for directional lights, …
Godot has been tightening CPU-side renderer code, and one Polygon2D case showed why that matters: a scene with only about 20 animated characters was spending 15.7 ms in Polygon2D::_notification() and …
Gate is a new high-level language for Godot that aims to be a superset of GDScript, so existing GDScript remains valid while projects can opt into extra structure. For teams …
Godot 4.8 Dev5 brings texture streaming into the engine’s upcoming release, a meaningful step for teams fighting memory pressure on large scenes. The build also cleans up the 2D toolbar, …
Godot 4.8 dev 5 brings mip-level texture streaming, a long-requested fix for open-world VRAM pressure. The snapshot also adds alpha-preserving mip handling, a cleaner 2D toolbar, and a handful of …
Catlike Coding Godot shows how to turn a 0–1 value range into a 1–0–1 gradient for procedural GPU patterns. The technique doubles the value, then remaps the upper half and …
Godot 4.8 Dev4 is out, pushing the engine another step toward its next stable release. This build is notable because the earlier 4.8 dev drops were relatively light, while Dev4 …
Catlike Coding Godot shows how folding time into a GPU hash makes procedural octaves animate in lockstep, but not smoothly. With temporal lacunarity set to 2, the second octave updates …
Tencent has taken a major new stake in W4 Games, the commercial services and porting company founded by key Godot Engine developers. The move deepens a strategic partnership that could …
Godot 4.8 dev 4 lands a broad set of editor, rendering, export, and workflow upgrades, with Trail3D, shader node groups, and Android SDK automation among the biggest additions. The snapshot …
W4 Games has secured $18 million to grow its international team and push deeper into the Godot ecosystem. The company also signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Tencent, a move …
W4 Games has closed an $18 million Series B led by Tencent, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The Godot services company will use the cash to expand its …