Category: Game Development
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Godot 4 Physics Cable: PinJoint Chain with Direct RigidBody Connections
The Setup Building a ship-driving game in Godot 4.7. The player picks up a power cable plug and drags it toward a relay control panel. The cable needs to feel real — pull the plug, the crate at the other end drags along. Push the crate, the plug follows. The Problem Godot 4 PinJoints connect…
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PSX-Style Retro Shader in Godot 4: Colour Banding, Dithering & Pixel Upscale
How to build a full PSX-style retro rendering stack in Godot 4: colour banding shader, Bayer dithering, scanlines, half-resolution dynamic upscale, camera auto-look tooling, and cinematic fade transitions.
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Dynamic Split-Screen in Godot 4: GPU Shader-Based Approach
Traditional split-screen in local co-op games has always been a compromise. Two players on one screen usually means either a fixed vertical/horizontal divider — permanently sacrificing half the screen per player — or a shared camera that zooms out to keep everyone in frame, shrinking everything t…
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Physics-Based Crate Carrying in Godot 4: A Spring-Damper Approach
In our ship-driving game Runners, players need to haul crates across ship decks, through doorways, around corners. Early prototypes used the standard Godot approach: press F, reparent the crate to the player, done.
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Testing Godot Games at Scale: 73 Integration Tests, CI, and Watch Mode
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Collision Jitter from Thin Objects: Why Your Floor is Bouncing
Understanding how thin collision shapes cause physics jitter and best practices for stable floor placement
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Fix for Player Input Unity Events. Action Methods not appearing.
🚨 Beware of this pitfall when using Unity’s Player Input Component! 🚨 If you’re working on a project in Unity that involves capturing input from a controller, you might be using the Player Input Component to handle input events. This component allows you to easily set up callbacks for various input actions, such as pressing…
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Limiting rotation in Unity easily, using relative direction of game objects
I wanted a way that would allow me to limit the gun rotation based on two game objects. That way different guns on the ship could have different limits so that the player couldn’t shot their own ship 😆 I wanted the limits to be visual, so that they are easy to visualize and adjust.…
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Star Haulers
Inspired by the hit game Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, our game offers a unique local co-op experience that will test your teamwork and communication skills like never before. With a fun and engaging learning curve, this game is perfect for families who want to bond and have fun together. Rally your family and work…
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Unity Get Closest Object 🎮