📰 News & Updates – August 2025
🔥 Godot 4.3 Beta Released
The Godot team has officially released Godot 4.3 Beta, featuring:
- Significant 3D performance improvements with Vulkan
- New NavigationServer optimizations
- Enhanced C# integration with .NET 8
- Usability improvements across the editor
👉 Read the official release notes
🎮 Games Made with Godot
Several exciting new titles created with Godot have recently launched on Steam:
- Until Then – A heartfelt visual novel set in the Philippines
- Cassette Beasts (Modding Tools) – Expanded support for community mods
- Lumencraft – A voxel-based mining & survival game
These releases show how versatile Godot is for both narrative and gameplay-heavy projects.
🏆 Community Highlights
- Godot Wild Jam #70 wrapped up this month, with over 100 submissions!
Theme: “Echoes of the Past” - The open-source plugin Godot Dialogue Manager 2.0 was released, making branching narrative design easier than ever.
📚 Learning Resources
- A new YouTube series “Godot 4 Made Easy” by GDQuest is trending in the community.
- Official docs now include a step-by-step multiplayer tutorial.
Great time to sharpen your skills and explore new workflows!
🌍 What’s Next?
- GodotCon 2025 is scheduled for November in Paris, bringing developers together for talks, showcases, and networking.
- Expect a Godot 4.3 stable release later this year, along with more performance updates and editor quality-of-life features.
✨ That’s it for this month’s roundup!
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