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After 7 different Dev releases, including Dev7 with the addition of Jolt Physics, Godot 4.4 Beta 1 has been released. This release adds a few more new features on top of the previous feature-heavy releases and represents the last major additions to the 4.4 branch. Everything else from here until the release candidate should just…
The Company Falco Software Inc. offers the source code of the game “Falco Sky Balance” for free download and use. The game was developed using their Falco Engine. It is a simple 3D game where you guide a ball from the start to the finish along a winding route. A direct link to the archive…
The developers of the GameMaker game builder for IDE users have released a new scrolling shooter template – with it you can make a SHMUP (Shoot ‘Em Up), lift your players into the sky. This is a fully prepared game with full code and clear explanations of how everything works: sprite control, bonuses, enemies, weapons,…
The description Cross ZGB has been added to the database. It is a multi-platform open source game engine that allows you to write your own games in C or ASM programming languages for 8-bit retro platforms: Nintendo Game Boy / Nintendo Game Boy Color, Analogue Pocket, Mega Duck / Coguar Boy, Sega Master System and…
Tokisan Games, the creator of the popular Terrain3D plugin, offers for download and use under the MIT license the Sky3D add-on, which is written entirely in GDScript, for the open-source Godot 4.3+ game engine. Sky3D will make it easy to implement in your game automatically rotating sun, moon and stars; Dynamic clouds and atmosphere changing…
The Passive Star development team has released Godot Minimal Theme 2.0, which makes the interface and windows of the Godot game engine beautiful. Version 2.0 brings several new features, makes the theme easier and more stable to use. Anyone who wants to see a non-standard interface for this engine can download this theme here.
Turánszki János updated and recently posted version 0.71.624 of the Wicked Engine 3D game engine. The new version features texture streaming improvements, improved ray tracing in shadows, improved underwater effects when the camera is partially underwater, and added Lua functions: IsThisEditor(), ReturnToEditor(), IsThisDebugBuild(). HDR calibration value has been added, and various minor fixes and optimizations…
godot-rust is a GDExtension extension (also available as a GDNative implementation for Godot 3.x) that brings the Rust programming language to the open source Godot game engine. Rust is a good alternative to GDScript with various tradeoffs for users. While GDScript allows for fast prototyping and short feedback loops, larger-scale games can benefit from a…
Gaijin Entertainment is pleased to release the full code for one of its multiplayer frameworks, the Dagor Engine, under a permissive license, along with art assets from a sample multiplayer game. The company has also released a set of two demos showing how the same map, created for one of Gaijin’s unannounced games, runs on…
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Are you a parent who loves making games or introducing your kids to game making? Check out the Buildbox for Parents series on the Buildbox game maker blog. It’s full of fun tips and ideas to help you bond and make game projects with your teens. Read here.
