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There is a new add-on for creating Metroidvania style games using the Godot Game Engine, MetSys or the Metroidvania System 1.0. This toolkit makes it easy to Metroid and Castlevania style 2D games by providing a new set of map editing tools. This tool requires the most current (beta only …
The Godot Road Generator is a free MIT licensed open source add-on for the Godot game engine for, well… generating roads. The development version is currently for the Godot 3.x branch, but the 1.0 release will be ported to Godot 4.x. Key features include: Key Links Asset Library Version (older) …
Terrain3D was just released, a free and open source terrain engine for the Godot game engine. With the recent release of Godot 4 (and Godot 4.1) on of the most requested missing features is a system for creating and editing terrain. There is a proposed terrain system but that is …
Currently part of the 30 for $30 Unity Mega Bundle Atlas Terrain is an extension for the Unity terrain system that gives you several new abilities. At it’s core it enables you to use multiple terrain height maps like prefabs, quickly stamping out your terrain. Additionally it contains spline based …
Welcome to hopefully what will be a new series, Awesome Godot. This series will shine a focus on some of the most interesting add-ons for the Godot game engine, starting today with Sprite Painter. To qualify for coverage on this list, the add-on must be: Today’s feature, Sprite Painter fits …
Featured in the Unity Hidden Gems Humble Bundle (learn more here) Spark AI is a Unity addon that integrates ChatGPT functionality. This is similar to the experimental Unity ChatGPT integration from a Unity employee that we covered a few months yet different in scope. This is more of a tight …
Cyclops is a new free and open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables rapid level creation. This enables you to rapidly block-in or white box levels in Godot, with tools for block creation, quick texturing, snapping and more. Cyclops is hosted on GitHub and is released under …
MeshSync for Unity is a powerful and free extension that enables you to sync your 3D scene from several popular DCC suites with the Unity game engine. This enables you to edit in Blender, 3DS Max, Maya and other content creation tools and see the results in real-time in the …
The Unity just got an importer for the popular Aseprite pixel editor’s file format, ase. Aseprite is a long running and very popular sprite editing package (we first covered all the way in 2017). It is available for a relatively low price of $20, although it’s possible to get it …
The popular open source drawing/paint application Krita has come a long way over the last few years, but using the add-on Shortcut Composer it can be made so much better. Shortcut Composer is a free and open source source extension for Krita written in Python that make several UI improvements …
