The theme for this #DevSnapshot is speed 🚂💨
Experience rendering, editor startup, filesystem operations, and more becoming faster than in previous Godot versions.
But that's not all! Read the #ReleaseNotes for more cards up our sleeve 🃏
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-dev-3/
Did somebody say "Typed Dictionaries"? 📖
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-dev-2/
Those should make taking inventory much easier, because who doesn't love a backpack full of loot? 🎒
Additionally, you may notice an absence of errors on first imports 👀
You'd think we take a break after our major 4.3 release, but since we closed the merge window back in May we already had >200 PRs ripe for the picking 🥕🥔🍆
Read more about Godot 4.4 dev 1:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-dev-1/
Highlights:
* Metal renderer for Apple devices
* 3D physics interpolation
* bicubic sampling for lightmaps
* many performance optimizations
In the meantime, make yourself at home in the adorable veggie-town of #Gourdlets by @auntygames 👵
Sometimes you better make another #beta!
This one is more stable and fixes many regressions, so give take it out for a spin and tell us about your experience 🚕
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-beta-2/
Speaking of cars, the featured game #StuntExpress might or might not mirror your testing experience 🚧
To counter the cold from our recent #FeatureFreeze, we have started a campfire to keep us warm on the #RoadToVostok 🔥
Before anyone pulls out a guitar and effectively stops all conversation, let us tell you about the #Beta for 4.3:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-beta-1
Testers needed! 🎸
Beta late than never! 🏁
Feature complete and optimized for performance, you can now give #DevSnapshot 3.6 a spin 🚗
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-6-beta-5/
Don't forget to pack you bags before you take off, though! 🎒 With the help of "Backpack Battles" ⬇️
Guess who is finally feature complete? Yes, #godotengine 4.3 is near!
It's becoming even beefier with 650 commits in this particular #DevSnapshot 🥩
Note for those who saw a certain tutorial: TileMap layers are now also nodes 😬
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-6/
Play mayor with @BippinBits ⬇️
Suprise! Another one 🍺
This time it's the last pre-GDC #DevSnapshot - containing a range of things from interactive music to GDScript upgrades.
Featuring "Béton Sanglant" by @mreliptik 🧱
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-5/
Smile please! It's #DevSnapshot time 📸
Speaking of pretty things, this one contains theme improvements, which is handy for all of you whose names aren't the reverse to activemoon ✨
Also, #TanksOfFreedomII, which should seem familar to some 👀
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-3/
Some of you must have gotten a different brief about what the word "holidays" means, because back at work we were greeted by literal piles of pull requests 📚
Read our new #DevSnapshot⬇️ to hear more about the ones we managed to merge already.
