This explainer video by @walaber.com is extremely good game dev inspiration, for both designers and programmers. Check it! youtu.be/wOAAitKoV9M #gamedev

And who set that system up 🪿

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

Godot went through the exact “sponsor is bad, so money is bad” discourse a few months ago, and… nothing of note changed — other than more people were paid to fix your bug reports and improve the engine for everyone. This page was created, too:

pnpm v11.0.0 is released! The "latest" dist-tag still points to v10, so install it via "pnpm self-update latest-11" github.com/orgs/pnpm/di...

Excited to announce our Steam Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT. Learn more and wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/sale/steamco... @steampowered.com

It's been a while, so here's a little, low-effort article about "set_process()" and the like 😄 rp.wtf/articles/con... #godot #godotengine

AI now writes 127% of my code. Here's what I learned.

we were really hoping to be at #GodotCon26, but couldn't this year! But we have a small bit Yarn Spinner for #Godot news, just for you! 👀 We'll try to get to the next #GodotCon! www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/godotco...

write something terrible, is my advice. like genuinely, just write something god awful. commit to it. you can then spend time making the terrible thing better having already done the hard part of actually writing anything at all.

I'm in awe of the Rockstar workers who've continuously fought back against their unjust firings by Rockstar. @nershly.bsky.social did an incredibly good job capturing what the past couple of months have been like for her and what we should all learn from it. scottishleftreview.scot/the-rockstar...

✂️ Knip v6.6.0 is out A few neat feats and another 8 dependencies removed. Along with v6.5.0 introducing tinyglobby, this tidy graph wouldn't have happened without the @e18e.dev community ❤️ Changelog: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... Knip: knip.dev

Two incredible PRs might make it across the finish line in time for #godot 4.7 beta. They've just been approved by core contributors and so they get a chance to be integrated right before the freeze. What a thriller!

New asset store (store.godotengine.org) coming to godot 4.7! github.com/godotengine/...

There's some impressive work going on with 3rd party oxc powered coverage instrumentation that can replace Babel based istanbul-lib-instrument 👀 > 8-11x faster than babel-plugin-istanbul, 13-15x faster than swc-plugin-coverage-instrument (Rust/WASM), 25-30x faster than istanbul-lib-instrument.

Recently I released an addon for Godot that merges all selected MeshInstance3D's into a single mesh instance. It's ideal for creating meshes that can be easily used in a MultiMeshInstance3D for example. Search in AssetLib: "mesh merge" or github.com/rikh42/meshm... #godot #indiedev #gamedev

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Another banger coming to godot 4.7: Inline text shader previews github.com/godotengine/...

One of those pull requests that will make Godot even greater than it is already. Texture streaming with quality texture levels: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/113429 #godotengine

@pnpm.io's experimental global virtual store is brilliant. The install performance gains are a game-changer for git flows. You get near-zero per-worktree overhead and instant installs for new worktrees as packages are already in the global store. @kochan.io can't stop making pnpm better 🤌

We would like to thank @megacrit.com for another year of sponsorship. This time, upgrading to Corporate Platinum! We were supposed to post this earlier but we were all busy playing Slay the Spire 2 🫡 fund.godotengine.org

I made a game tonight, so addictive, i don't dare release it. So amazing, so fun, so insightful, IT WILL DESTROY THE INDUSTRY!! I DO NOT DARE RELEASE IT! But if you pay me $1m you can play it... (I am learning marketing from Anthropic.)

New #gameassets ✨ I've created 150+ light cookies/masks compatible with all game engines that support this feature. Includes white on black, black on white and white on transparent backgrounds for each. CC0, public domain, all free! kenney.nl/assets/light...

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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Jolt Physics just hit 10K GitHub stars! What started in 2014 as a CPU vs GPU ray casting experiment became a full physics engine in 2021. Seeing what you’re building with it is amazing. Thank you!

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Wish you could toggle gizmo visibility for a Godot node type directly from the inspector like in Unity? I updated my Gizmo Presets addon to include this little quality-of-life feature. Grab it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

switch to trustPolicy: no-downgrade now.

Today's recommended website is chiptube.app. If you love chiptune music/SFX then head over for a huge slice of nostalgia. A massive catalogue of SID, NES, SNES, N64, GENESIS music awaits, plus lots more. Volume up to 11. chiptune.app/browse

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The N64RecompLauncher is a fantastic program that can help keep track of and install all of the current native PC ports of retro and classic games on the #SteamDeck:

My free #Godot cheatsheet viewer plugin along with all +14 free cheatsheets are now available!! You can optionally buy the Ready-To-Go collection to support me and download all free cheatsheets in one go! qaqelol.itch.io/cheatsheet-v... #GameDev #Indie #GodotEngine #Free #Addon

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

Here's #GodotEngine 4.7-dev3, and it's feature-packed with great workflow improvements! 🧃 Control transform offset 🔎 PopupMenu search bar 🧲 3D editor vertex snapping 🖼️ Android Picture-in-Picture 📚 MeshLibrary editor 📸 Linux Wayland HDR ✨ And a lot more! godotengine.org/article/dev-...

if giving up and letting AI corpo slop infest an entire creative medium is to "man up" then ig I'll continue to woman down this is a choice, just don't use it, it's literally that easy www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

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Nothing smart to say here frankly, just fascinating and lovely to see study on post-game depression. www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...

It's just three weeks to go until Multiplayer - who's been gathering up their friends for 13 April? 🙌🙌

Unfortunately, @itch.io is overrun by slop. The assets are slop, the tools are 'vibecoded'. It's an endless stream of spam which takes away visibility from great human-made creations. It's honestly just a sad state, anything you can do - itch?

Check out Rapier for the #GodotEngine It's not only a drop in 2D and 3D physics engine, it's also a full fluids simulation for Godot! It's also free & #opensource. gamefromscratch.com/godot-rapier... #gamedev #indiedev

Yeah, I've advocated for "it's just a number" regarding open issues too: fvsch.com/stale-bots