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Godot Foundation welcomes JetBrains as Platinum Sponsor – Godot Engine The Godot Foundation is thrilled to welcome JetBrains as a Platinum Sponsor! We’re very grateful for the support, and hope you’ll give them a warm welcome too.

JetBrains is sponsoring the work we do for all of you! If you are working in GDScript or C#, you should give Godot + Rider a go.

We would like to thank them for becoming a Platinum Sponsor of the project!

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We're happy to welcome Scorewarrior as our newest Patron sponsor on the Godot Development Fund 🎉 fund.godotengine.org

Scorewarrior takes the crown as the top donator this year! Thank you for supporting open-source and helping us keep building Godot for everyone.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 4 – Godot Engine More critical fixes coming your way!

Critical bugs: squashed! Beta snapshot: live! Blog post: below!

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Godot Showcase - Dogwalk – Godot Engine Julien and Simon from Blender Studio tell us about their experience working on Dogwalk.

A new game to showcase! @julienkaspart.bsky.social and @simonthommes.bsky.social tell us about their experience working on DOGWALK 🐶, @studio.blender.org ’s open-project made with Godot and Blender.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 3 – Godot Engine Gotta go fast!

Godot 4.5 beta 3 already? But it's only been a week!

Indeed, we have entered the phase of development where snapshots will become much more frequent. Want to make the process even faster? Testing the new release is the easiest way to do so:

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Save 60% on Xion Leak on Steam Xion Leak is a fast-paced, two-player, cooperative platformer. Get in sync and set the fastest times to win trophies! Run fast, work together, and avoid the countless dangers that the mysterious Forem...

Game featured: Xion Leak by @gentlebeastsstudio.bsky.social

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 2 – Godot Engine The cow goes

Time for #godotengine 4.5 beta 2!

Even though we’re now in feature freeze, you might recall us mentioning a handful of pre-approved exceptions. One of them being SDL3 input made it in! 🕹️ 🎮

Help us test this release 👇

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Godot Community Poll 2025 – Godot Engine We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

The 2025 Godot Community Poll is live! Help us understand our community better and shape the engine's future. Takes just 5-10 minutes:

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CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator on Steam CraftCraft is a story-based RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting! Create a pretty necklace for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood! Be a Moth or an Elf or a Cat and express your creativity in...

Featured game by @placeholder.games, made with Godot 3:
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Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.1 – Godot Engine Godot 3.6 was released in September last year, and it has been mostly stable, although there have been a few more important bugs which warrant a maintenance

Godot 4.5 beta just sailed out with features galore, but what's up in the tranquil waters of good ol' Godot 3? ⛵

Our Godot 3.x maintainer lawnjelly just wrapped up the 3.6.1 patch release to address a few issues in that branch:

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What's New in Android & XR – Godot Engine Recap of the Android & XR updates during GodotCon 2025

An update from the team behind the Android and XR side of the project 📱

Fredia shares some numbers, the status of the Android and the XR editors, hybrid apps, Android APIs integrations and more!

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Rift Riff on Steam Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.

Featured game:
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1 – Godot Engine Godot 4.5 has entered beta and is now feature-complete!

Here we go: #GodotEngine 4.5 is ready for wider testing with its first beta snapshot! 🤖 🧪

As usual, it's feature-packed so we wrote a wordy blog post showcasing the main highlights in this new version.

Please report any issue you encounter while testing on GitHub!
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A new convention to look forward to: GodotFest - Save the Date! – Godot Engine Introducing the second annual Godot convention: GodotFest 25 - GodotCon Europe!

🇪🇺 A new Godot event: GodotFest!

GodotFest is a new independently organized, annual Godot convention happening in Munich, Germany on Nov 11–12.

🎟️ Tickets are available now and discounted throughout June.

Read more about it in our blog:
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Optimizing 3D scenes in Godot on Arm GPUs In part 1 of this series, learn how we utilized Arm Performance Studio to identify and resolve major performance issues in Godot’s Vulkan-based mobile renderer.

If you are interested in low-level development, our rendering lead @clayjohn.bsky.social wrote a post sharing some insights into the optimization process for mobile devices using Arm Performance Studio 👇

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Upcoming (serious) Web performance boost – Godot Engine Compiling the Godot Engine with WASM SIMD support truly is a game changer.

Godot web exports just got a serious performance boost! Starting in 4.5 dev 5, builds use WASM SIMD by default, meaning better performance with no changes needed on your end.

Details and benchmarks: godotengine.org/article/upco...

Replicube on Steam Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects.  Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game comm...

Featured game: Replicube by @walaber.com
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 5 – Godot Engine The cool chill of the feature freeze approaches…

Brrr… 🧊 Do you feel that? That’s the cold front of the #GodotEngine 4.5 feature freeze (beta) just around the corner.

We still have some days to wrap up new features, and this new dev snapshot is fire 🔥

visionOS support, shader baker, WebAssembly SIMD, and more!
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Ambidextro on Steam A multi-player game for a single player. Learn to control 2 characters at the same time, one with each hand. Achieve ambidexterity and rescue both the prince and the princess at the same time.

Featured game: Ambidextro, on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox!
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 4 – Godot Engine One post-GodotCon snapshot coming up!

Back from #GodotCon in Boston with a new dev snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.5, hot off the press!

macOS game window embedding (finally!), improvements to 3D physics interpolation, specular occlusion from ambient light, and more goodies to test!

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Live from GodotCon Boston: Web .NET prototype – Godot Engine We managed to do the impossible: we created a Godot-based prototype for the Web that runs .NET! Come and try it!

The .NET team managed to create a prototype running C# on the Web. There’s still a lot of work and testing to do, but we are getting there! #godotengine
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Godot Showcase - Somar – Godot Engine We interviewed Frederic Plourde from Collabora and Daniel Castellanos from Decasis about the Somar project.

We interviewed Frederic Plourde and Daniel Castellanos who used Godot to create an educational XR experience for SOMAR, a non-profit association focusing on the conservation of marine life 🐬

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Cornerpond on Steam A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!

Featured game:
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 3 – Godot Engine Access the engine like never before!

New #GodotEngine 4.5 dev snapshot just dropped‒a proverbial Friday release with all the hiccups you'd expect...

But it's also a HUGE one with the first integration of AccessKit to provide screen reader support! 🗣️

Script backtraces should also be a welcome change 📜

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Save 40% on Fortune Avenue on Steam A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver riv...

Featured game:
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 2 – Godot Engine This is where the fun begins

Development is progressing rapidly on our next feature milestone, #GodotEngine 4.5, now with a second dev snapshot.

Dedicated 2D navigation server, better shader editor UI, fragment density maps, Wayland native sub-windows, and more!
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