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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 8

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. and binutils 2.37. Known issues.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Movie Maker run mode to record in-game footage for trailers/movies. Fix GDScript bug causing return values to be reset in release builds. What's new.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 Bug reports. What's new.

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Alpha Dev Beta Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. alpha builds.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

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 Edit: Or not, there's a regression for the web editor in this build ( GH-57592 ). GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). Bug reports.

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GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. currently at the alpha stage.

Alpha

Alpha Demo Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Collision Mesh Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

Edit 2020-07-30: We found that 3.2.3 would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Bug reports. A new 3.2.3

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

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 GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix buffer upload size bugs affecting blendshapes ( GH-58085 ). Bug reports.

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Bug reports.

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Bug reports.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Bug reports.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Windows: DirectInput: Use correct joypad ID ( GH-40927 ).

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Bug Collision Build Texture

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

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Concepts Demo Engine Engineering

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

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 GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix buffer upload size bugs affecting blendshapes ( GH-58085 ).

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Render Texture Scripting Agent

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 3

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.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

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. Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

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. Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

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 goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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Beta Engine Engineering Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

release, we decided to take the chance to look at our long list of features and bug fixes that could not be implemented because it involved breaking compatibility. The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. and that we'd better focus fully on 3.0

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