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Helge Maus is a Senior Trainer & Mentor // www.pixeltrain.net | 3d | animation | game art | game dev // Blender for Production | Godot Game Development for Indies Excited about 3d, animation, vfx, games, comics, manga, anime, art, music ...

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Image with text, spotlighting a talk or workshop for GodotFest 2025

Oh, that UI looks dope —wish it wasn’t so hard to read tho
Learn what makes text work on screen and how Godot’s typography features can shape how players experience your game.
Henni

Buy your ticket today: GodotFest.com

Image with text, spotlighting a talk or workshop for GodotFest 2025 Oh, that UI looks dope —wish it wasn’t so hard to read tho Learn what makes text work on screen and how Godot’s typography features can shape how players experience your game. Henni Buy your ticket today: GodotFest.com

The best-looking UI means nothing if your players can’t read it. In her workshop at #GodotFest, Henni (itsjustletters.de) will show how Godot’s font tools help designers build accessible interfaces: starting from the basics all the way to advanced OpenType features and more!

07.11.2025 11:56 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Image with text, spotlighting a talk or workshop for GodotFest 2025

Keeper to Keepers: Adding Multiplayer 
to Dome Keeper
How to approach multiplayer integration in existing Godot projects: insights from Dome Keeper.
Chris Ridenour
KAR Games

Buy your ticket today: GodotFest.com

Image with text, spotlighting a talk or workshop for GodotFest 2025 Keeper to Keepers: Adding Multiplayer to Dome Keeper How to approach multiplayer integration in existing Godot projects: insights from Dome Keeper. Chris Ridenour KAR Games Buy your ticket today: GodotFest.com

The age-old wisdom for adding multiplayer to a complex single player game is: Don't. But the team of Dome Keeper did it anyway! Chris Ridenour will talk about how they did it at #GodotFest

05.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Richard Stallman as a visionary prophet of digital freedom while simultaneously abandoning every principle he fought for? The contradiction runs deeper than you...

The Stallman Paradox. Food for thought about free/open source:
paragraph.com/@holonic-hor...

03.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 1

It’s time to update your Blender! Two new releases are available today. 🚀

🔶 Blender 4.5.4 LTS addresses 63 issues since 4.5.3
🔹 Blender 4.2.15 LTS addresses 13 issues since 4.2.14

📖 Download and read what's changed: www.blender.org/download/lts/

#b3d #DevFund

29.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 113    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks a lot Miguel. Didn't know that you watched my stuff. With Java ☕ a very long time ago :-)

Hope we will meet in person on a Godot meeting in the future.

24.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Folks! I’m looking for an illustrator to do some in-game artwork for an unannounced project on a contract basis in November.

Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!

Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟

24.10.2025 10:43 — 👍 214    🔁 210    💬 19    📌 5
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Godot Einführungskurs • Visualisierungs-Akademie Godot Einführungskurs: Dein Start in die Game-Entwicklung für 2D & 3D

Next #Godot beginner's online course (German) is coming up 🔥

Would you like to learn how to implement your first game ideas
how to develop 2D & 3D games, how to program player interactions with GDScript, and have a lot of fun while doing it 🎮 ?

👉 visualisierungs-akademie.ch/de/kurs/godo...

24.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Image with a message from the PlayStation team:

If you are interested in learning more 
about releasing your game on PlayStation, 
we’d love to meet you!
We will be sharing general information about our consoles, development tools, and the technical onboarding process.
To schedule a meeting with us during GodotFest, please email siegtp.engage@sony.com by the 31st of October 2025 to arrange a time to chat.

Image with a message from the PlayStation team: If you are interested in learning more about releasing your game on PlayStation, we’d love to meet you! We will be sharing general information about our consoles, development tools, and the technical onboarding process. To schedule a meeting with us during GodotFest, please email siegtp.engage@sony.com by the 31st of October 2025 to arrange a time to chat.

Did we mention the PlayStation team is going to be at #GodotFest? And you can meet them too!

23.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
An image with the Polygon Treehouse logo and the message "Join us on Discord".

The background consists of three slices, one for our debut indie game Röki, one for our second indie game Mythwrecked, and one mysterious one marked with a "?" for our next indie game.

An image with the Polygon Treehouse logo and the message "Join us on Discord". The background consists of three slices, one for our debut indie game Röki, one for our second indie game Mythwrecked, and one mysterious one marked with a "?" for our next indie game.

Hey everyone!

I'd like to invite you to the @polygontreehouse.bsky.social Discord server.

Whether you're a fan of our games, indie games in general, or are an indie dev yourself, you'd be more than welcome.

👉 discord.gg/polygontreehouse

23.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0

This was a really fun project for our team! The Switch 2 unlocked a lot of optimizations opportunities in the rendering backend (which we naturally took advantage of). We are looking forward to seeing how far people can push Godot games on the Switch 2!!

21.10.2025 03:47 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 2 – Godot Engine Open the floodgates!

The floodgates have opened, with over 300 improvements in its wake 🌊

The second development snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.6 arrives! Building the engine as a library, a dedicated ObjectDB profiler, and more detailed below:

godotengine.org/article/dev-...

20.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 362    🔁 44    💬 4    📌 2
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Yea! Our Adventure game 'Elroy and the Aliens' runs great on #SteamDeck🎯 Steam said so.

#indiegame

21.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Hm, würde gerne, aber von hier aus (IT) ist es eine ziemliche Strecke. Mal sehen ...

20.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I made an update to the @godotfest.com website and you can now favourite the talks you want to see and create your own schedule.

godotfest.com/schedule

#godotengine #godotfest

19.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
A preview image of the Deluxe Edition of Mythwrecked for the PS5. It includes a slip cover and some bookmarks.

A preview image of the Deluxe Edition of Mythwrecked for the PS5. It includes a slip cover and some bookmarks.

I'm a BIG fan of physical media, so it's safe to say I'm SUPER STOKED that our multi-awarding winning indie game Mythwrecked will be getting a physical release!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Snag your copy below & signal boosts are most welcome folks.

🏝️ bit.ly/mythwrecked

17.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 220    🔁 66    💬 20    📌 5

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

03.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 4001    🔁 2431    💬 41    📌 145
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TerraBrush running in Godot 4.5 WITHOUT C# 🙈!
All features are ready now, I'm just doing the final tests!

Wanna help me test it?

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

05.10.2025 04:36 — 👍 71    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
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Material Maker 1.4 Material Maker 1.4 is now available for download... I would like to apologize for all the time it took, I seriously underestimated the effort needed to port everything to Godot 4 and the temptation to...

#MaterialMaker 1.4 (#GodotEngine based PBR material authoring and 3D model texturing tool) is now available on @itchio .
It is based on Godot 4, had a huge UI redesign and has quite a few new nodes.
rodzilla.itch.io/material-mak...

05.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 149    🔁 45    💬 7    📌 1
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Hunting orphan nodes in Godot | rp.wtf My experience of finding and fixing some memory leaks in our Godot game.

Spent an evening trying to track down orphan nodes in our godot project.

rp.wtf/articles/hun...

#godotengine #godot

25.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

mobile is in such an unjustifiably terrible place right now. find me a single indie dev that doesn’t have an existing audience and isn’t using a gross business model on mobile to survive. just one! i don’t know any success stories like that over the last few years.

25.09.2025 00:32 — 👍 81    🔁 11    💬 16    📌 4
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📯📯📯ANNOUNCEMENT📯📯📯
Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders
🗓️ Launching Sep 4th 2025

🔍 Search clues and quiz suspects
🔀 Draw your own conclusions
🔪 Choices affect multiple endings
⛪️ Explore late 19thC pixel-art Leipzig
🇩🇪 Authentic German voicing

Wishlist on Steam!
👉👉 s.team/a/1841190

07.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 122    🔁 49    💬 10    📌 16
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German Adventure Casebook 1899 – The Leipzig Murders launched the same day as Silksong. In his article, dev Gregor Müller @homonarransstudio.bsky.social is looking back at the launch, the condition of a uniquely German-voiced game and crowdfunding as a tool.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/games-and...

18.09.2025 10:39 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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#GodotEngine 4.5 may have just been released, but there's no rest for the wicked: here comes animation length resizing via dragging! 🎞️

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/110623

17.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 79    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0
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Another Godot 4.5 feature not so many would notice but will be incredibly useful (and perfectly integrated with Godot localization system) is the localization preview! 🤩

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #Godot

16.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 79    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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Godot 4.5 is out!

Here are my favorite features 👇
youtu.be/vPcYsAWLEj4

15.09.2025 21:11 — 👍 43    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉

With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!

godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

15.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 1395    🔁 418    💬 30    📌 70
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Today I published the second DevLog about my journey from a VFX focused senior trainer to indie game development on my (free) Patreon:

👉 www.patreon.com/posts/indieg...

#IndieGameDevelopment #GameDev #GameDesign #Devlog #Solodev #Godot #GodotEngine #pixeltrain #HelgeMaus

12.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2025 A game jam from 2025-09-08 to 2025-09-22 hosted by Godot XR Community & Bastiaan Olij. Welcome to the fourth Godot XR Game jam This game jam is organized by the Godot XR Community and offers a fun opp...

Just a reminder, we just entered the weekend portion of the Godot XR Community Game Jam, that's the final stretch and hopefully a few people will join in who aren't able to participate during the week.

itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

12.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Holy smokes! I think I know where the Godot console support comes from 😏

The Chasing Carrots devs did an amazing porting work on HoT, which IMO benefited both the game and @w4games.com's middleware which was well tested and improved for everyone.

12.09.2025 09:27 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Release candidate: Godot 4.5 RC 2 – Godot Engine One more for the road, again!

#GodotEngine 4.5's second release candidate has arrived!

This is your last chance to find and report critical regressions before the stable release:

godotengine.org/article/rele...

10.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 343    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 3

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