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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2025

Contributors are encouraged to focus exclusively on fixing regressions , as we are now in feature-freeze and will not be merging new features at this stage of development (aside from a couple pre-approved exceptions scheduled for beta 2). You can follow the developers on Bluesky: Adriaan , Sim , Franz , Matthijs , Panda.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. Often developers need to implement rendering techniques, post processing effects, etc. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0

AAA

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Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Developer Epic Games fires 830 people this year. The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. ’ source: videogamelayoffs.com Overhead is generally the largest expense on the books of any development outfit or publisher. Top image: Fortnite.

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Platformer Games Culling Entertainment

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It's fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). It is not yet usable in production. Known issues.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. 6、scene-development This folder is used to store scenes for testing purpose, such as character controller, bullet, IK, raycast and so on.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). What's new.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

To do that we will edit the spaceship sprite by clicking on it in the project window. So we need to edit those as well. So we need to edit those as well. Select the player object and edit the collider so it is now 0.2 This time we will edit the enemy prefab. Which is double the previous value of 0.1.

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Texture Render Alpha Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Currently, development is done under Linux using the MESA driver , which has full OpenGL ES 3.0

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Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. This feature was originally developed for Godot 4.0 both small and large.

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Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Editor: Improved Inspector sub-resource editing ( GH-45907 ). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Editor: Improved Inspector sub-resource editing ( GH-45907 ). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Editor: Improved Inspector sub-resource editing ( GH-45907 ). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Major changes. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 milestone.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Major changes. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 milestone.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). It is not yet usable in production. Known issues.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! with a new project to test out exciting new features and provide valuable feedback to the development team before 4.0 It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is set in stone.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It was mostly developed by karroffel , and it's truly amazing. The GDNative ARVR framework is tightly knit and allows support for other VR platforms to be developed independently of the core game engine.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 13, 2025

With that now behind us, we can go full-steam ahead on our next development snapshot: 4.5 It is developed by Majorariatto ( Twitter ). There are too many exciting changes to list them all here, but heres a curated selection: Core: Add Node.get_orphan_node_ids , edit Node.print_orphan_nodes ( GH-83757 ). dev 2 , and 4.5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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