Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. What's new. Known issues.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. What's new. Known issues.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Render Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Straight out of the Godot Sprint in Barcelona, here's another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha 7 which should work fine.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. alpha builds. Jump to the Downloads section.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Terrain Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0 What's new.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 , alpha 3 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Render Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0

Beta 85

Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Terrain Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. This first alpha build comes relatively late in our planned release schedule, mostly because of work done on our official build infrastructure to adapt to 3.2 release, we are now happy to release Godot 3.2

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

beta 1 two weeks ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here's beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Between biweekly 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Like with 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. The previous beta 3 introduced a brand new Android editor port! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

beta 1 two weeks ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here’s beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). Like with 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As those of you following the beta posts know, the work to finalize Godot 4.0 Naturally, this exposed bugs that we did not catch during betas or release candidates. Rest assured, we plan to publish bugfix releases quickly and regularly (as we have with the Alphas and Betas). Still, we intend to quickly follow 4.0

Beta 95

Beta Bug Quality Assurance Feature 95

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3 please file an issue on GitHub.

Render 52

Render Alpha Shaders Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As those of you following the beta posts know, the work to finalize Godot 4.0 Naturally, this exposed bugs that we did not catch during betas or release candidates. Rest assured, we plan to publish bugfix releases quickly and regularly (as we have with the Alphas and Betas). Still, we intend to quickly follow 4.0

Beta 40

Beta Bug Quality Assurance Feature 40

Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For independent studios, creative marketing strategies like crowdfunding and early-access Beta releases play a crucial role. It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution.

Game Developer 52

Game Developer Game Development Development Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

As the alpha of Godot 4.0 This hardware does not posses enough video memory to run a modern game engine, anyway. Another important way to support Godot 4, other than donating , is to try out the alpha builds as soon as they are out and report all the issues that you encounter. Hello fellow developers! Will Godot 4.0

Render 52

Render Alpha Mobile Mobile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

Beta 91

Beta Dev Render Alpha 91

Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Testing: Each feature, as well as the mechanics of the game, need to be tested for quality control. Only after endless hours of testing and iterating, the game is considered ready for a late-Alpha or even a Beta release, on the basis of how polished the in-game features are.

Game Developer 100

Game Developer Game Development Development Cross platform 100

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2 release , so we're getting ready to release Godot 3.4.3, if something that worked fine in earlier 3.4.x

Render 52

Render Texture Agent Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! beta 1 and RC 1. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES2: Batching - Fix FORCE_REPEAT not being set properly on npot hardware ( GH-40410 ).

Collision 52

Collision Mesh Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued in the two months since the 3.4.2 we're now ready to release Godot 3.4.3-stable

Render 52

Render Texture Scripting Agent 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2 release , so we're getting ready to release Godot 3.4.3, Jump to the Downloads section.

Render 52

Render Texture Bug Scripting 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52