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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 03/08/2026

Genuinely so happy to hear this. I find myself in a similar boat 😊💜

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 08/06/2026

Here's a new #Godot tutorial on creating a simple third person camera system from scratch. We also add polish to smooth the camera (sensitivity and damping), and (optionally) tweak the player movement code to move and rotate in the camera's direction. #gamedev youtu.be/ZKrBsDmU-l4

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Create a Third Person Camera | Godot 3D

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 19/05/2026

Something a little bit different today... how do we translate our movement with a rotating camera? A short < 3 min (rather shaky, sorry) tutorial, exploring 2D/3D co-ordinate spaces and vector transformations. Also featuring, rubber duck! youtu.be/UlO7cMZkHdI #godot #gamedev

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Move 3D Character Forward with Camera Rotation | Godot

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 17/05/2026

goddamn can't even turn something 45 degrees

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 15/05/2026

Tiny project - some rather humble axis markers made from mugwort branches & twine. I'll use them in upcoming #gamedev videos!

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 13/05/2026

lol literally my entire feed is bunnies and beans

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 22/04/2026

I've just released a Basic 3D Character Controller for #Godot! 🤖 Get a #gamedev project up and running with an animated character who can walk, run, and roll. 🔧 Customise settings eg. speeds, variable jump, acceleration. 🎥 Contains a standalone third person camera. www.patreon.com/posts/basic-...

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 05/04/2026

😭😭😭 I'm terribly embarrassed but I'm glad it wasn't wholly disruptive

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 05/04/2026

(I only just realised that I accidentally recorded audio that is entirely unrelated - a video by Mina Le I was listening to while working 😭 - so sorry to her!)

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 03/04/2026

A little open source delight... a prototype using a single texture from Kenney's prototype assets, the built-in #Godot icon to texture Godotnaut, and Mesh2Motion animations. I'll make this one available on GitHub along with a tutorial so you can code it yourself soon! #gamedev

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 01/04/2026

Here's a new tutorial in my #Godot #gamedev series! We get acquainted with Godot's scripting language (GDScript) and script editor. We (re)examine Node hierarchies and Classes, learn coding basics (variables/properties, functions, and if statements) and input youtu.be/BIW22YSe5nY

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Learn Basic Scripting | Godot 3D

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 25/03/2026

Node inheritance is kinda like biology (a snippet from an upcoming video) #godot #gamedev

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 08/03/2026

Thank you so much Wangle!! ☺️💜

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 07/03/2026

How do we look at another object... a very simple and classic gamedev question. The answer is atan2! youtu.be/qFSAcCwQS0E #godot #gamedev

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Essential gamedev math function: atan2

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 04/03/2026

godotnaut is very WELCOMING!! a little over eager but look they are rather socially anxious... #godot #gamedev

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 01/03/2026

Honestly, same, I reckon that's fair 🥲

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 01/03/2026

That's right haha, the origin is indeed at its feet! The joke is basically that we rarely want the WHOLE model to rotate like this as it looks quite goofy. For a humanoid, we expect/want the body to rotate around the vertical axis only (maybe the head with more motion) -- but yes, constraints NEEDED

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 28/02/2026

Yeah, it's just not as user-friendly as popping in "look_at(node)" (or Vector2/3 instead of node), which might be expected by beginners. The above suggestion results in this: Which is fine! It works! It's just quite wordy. As well, it's interesting to look behind the scenes at the math.

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 28/02/2026

Ah absolutely for 2D, but I have been meaning 3D, like this: bsky.app/profile/frie...

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 28/02/2026

so this is why look_at() is a bit UM wonky in #godot #gamedev

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 28/02/2026

Absolutely, but there are cases eg. in Godot where the built-in user-friendly functions (eg. look_at) are not desired. They result in the below outcome, whereas I might want to just turn the character on one axis. As well, in general, I do like to explain/understand the underlying maths!

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 28/02/2026

Definitely have a look at @freya.bsky.social 's work and tutorials, they are wonderful for grasping concepts like this!

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 27/02/2026

An essential bit of gamedev math - atan2! We often know a target's position and want to face it. But how do we get the angle? angle = atan2(y / x) Or in 3D... angle = atan2(x / z) (We can also see below, what happens if we use atan instead of atan2) #godot #gamedev

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 27/02/2026

I also have a Patreon if you want to support me making more videos like this! There's early access to videos, code repositories, voting on videos, code help, etc. www.patreon.com/c/FriendlyCo...

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 27/02/2026

A new #godot tutorial that tries to answer... What are visual materials? Why are there so many slots for them!? Where do we put shaders and how do we use them? youtu.be/-hhwYgjRFc4

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How to Use Materials & Shaders | Godot 3D

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 26/02/2026

Such a good song 🐰🟰🏇🛰️🚫👀

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 25/02/2026

Aw yay, I hope they've been helpful! Slow and steady absolutely ☺️

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 21/02/2026

A very beginner-focused #gamedev tutorial, with a little bit of #godot as usual - What are materials? youtu.be/l14ryz3OdN8

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What are materials in gamedev?

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 19/02/2026

Binary files are more efficient, but quite impossible for humans to read. Also, a nightmare to deal with in source control. (What changes did you make to the file? How can you tell? How do I go back to when it worked? Oh dear!) So, text-based files are usually preferred!

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 19/02/2026

Similarly, ".scn" and ".tscn" files are scenes - basically, a bunch/tree/hierarchy of Nodes that form a collective Thing (eg. the Player). This Thing is saved as a special type of resource, and can later be instantiated. Again, ".scn" is binary and ".tscn" is text-based.

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 19/02/2026

Ever wondered what the ".res" and ".tres" mean in #Godot? They're res-ource files! Packets of data (eg. a material) that don't do anything on their own, but can be used by Nodes (eg. to render an object). A ".res" file is binary, while ".tres" is t-ext based human readable.

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 16/02/2026

What assets can we use in gamedev? This video covers common licenses (creative commons, MIT, public domain - permissive, restrictive, and open source) and file types of assets (FBX, glTF, OBJ, blend), and their impacts on our creative projects. youtu.be/gPxZzoAM0Vk #godot

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What assets can I actually use? | Importing Assets to Godot 3D

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 14/02/2026

My apologies friends, this week's video about asset pipelines with Godot is a little late - in part because I am (FURIOUSLY) struggling to find texture packs that are not made with AI to recommend using. Likely up tomorrow instead - I am a very grumpy cosmonaut!

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 07/02/2026

Here's a new tutorial - setup basic 3D movement and collisions in #Godot! We discuss the different kinds of physics bodies, revisit node hierarchy, and Godot's built-in CharacterBody movement script youtu.be/S6NeTy9z_rE

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Player Movement & Collisions | Godot 3D

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 31/01/2026

A very gentle start to my Intro to #Godot tutorial series. Covers installing Godot/different versions (stable/beta/dev), basic project setup, Godot's Node architecture, Object Oriented Programming, and uncover a mystery Aussie animal 🦘⁉️ youtu.be/Kdr7sD0-r68

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Intro to Godot - Download & Project Setup

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 30/01/2026

Godot as an organisation takes seriously/purports to be non-prescriptive (also why it doesn't have a built-in Terrain editor among other common feature requests). Still, I have been thinking about this too... the absence of endorsement can be confusing as a user (and especially for beginners!)

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 30/01/2026

Hmm, to add to what @uniw.university posted - I've also observed Github/Git as the default. Godot itself is hosted on GitHub, and most creators from the Godot Asset Library likewise host using Git/GitHub

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 24/01/2026

FINALLY back... thanks Faulty 🌟🐝

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 23/01/2026

If you'd like to support the series, pop over to my Patreon; I'll be posting extra videos, source code, thoughts, polls and demos there - just like this one! www.patreon.com/posts/148925...

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 09/01/2026

emote near a fellow bee and dance together #godot

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Friendly Cosmonaut @friendlycosmonaut.dev · 04/01/2026

this is your friendly reminder to use source control! you don't wanna spend all day working on something only to delete it accidentally and have no way of getting it back!! code, models, writing bits, it all should be backed up!!! we've all been there haha!!!! !!

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