Image from „Horripilant - A game by Pas Game“
5. March 2026

Godot Engine 4.7 Dev 2

5. March 2026 By admin

Only recently, at the end of January 2026, the new stable version Godot 4.6 was released.

With this release and the first bugfix patch shortly afterwards in mid-February, the development of Godot 4.7 is now progressing in great strides.

Today the second Godot 4.7 Dev2 was released.

So if you want to look into the future and directly dive into some new features, you can find builds for the various platforms here:

👉 https://godotengine.org/download/archive/4.7-dev2/

Some of the highlights so far:

  • Add support for copy/paste of section/category properties
  • Use monospaced font for code names in UI
  • Collapse groups in animation track editor
  • Support HDR output for Apple
  • Add a scene painter tool for 2D
  • Bult-in VirtualJoystick for mobile games (Joypad controls)
  • Drawable Textures
  • Enable Path3D collider snapping
  • and much more

Image from „Horripilant – A game by Pas Game“

Godot Game Development courses with Helge Maus / pixeltrain
2. March 2026

Game Development courses with Godot Engine

2. March 2026 By admin

My next 🇩🇪 German-language online trainings (2-days, small groups, live) for Game Development with the free and open-source Godot Engine are online. Again in collaboration with the Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz GmbH.

I will accompany you from the first steps in Godot Engine to the expert level 🧑‍🎓 :

Godot Grundlagen (Godot Fundamentals)
📅 23. + 24. April 2026

Godot Einführung in 3D Games (Godot Advanced)
📅 18. + 19. Juni 2026

Entwickeln in Godot mit C# (Godot Expertkurs C#)
📅 26. + 27. März 2026
📅 16. + 17. Juli 2026

More information:
👉 https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/de/kurse?software=b5127f5b-7ff2-429e-8559-954209ea4a50

I’m looking forward to seeing you 🤓

PS: If you are looking for the same topics in 🇬🇧 English, please write me a DM to info(at)pixeltrain.net for getting the next dates.

#GameDevelopment #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

Road to Vostok - Game made with Godot Engine
1. February 2026

Road to Vostok – Early Access Trailer is out!

1. February 2026 By admin

In July 2024, I first wrote about the game “Road to Vostok,” which was in development at the time, on my Patreon page.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/godot-engine-to-107308034?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

What’s special about this game for me isn’t necessarily the survival thriller genre, but rather its origins as a Unity game and its subsequent transition to the Godot Engine. The developer log, which is very well documented, demonstrates that even projects of this size can be handled by the free and open-source Godot engine.

Starting in April 2007, this game will be available as Early Access on Steam (a demo for Windows is already available there):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/

Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan, and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Congratulations to the developers!

Here’s the link to the trailer: https://youtu.be/OTFgTRsz43Q?si=UT_cw2eYJytTQXg6

Projects like this motivate me to create my own worlds in Godot, in 2d or 3d. For beginners and advanced programmers.

If you’d like to learn more about Godot and Game Development, you can find my German-language online courses here: https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/

I offer also English-language courses through the pixeltrain Academy: https://www.pixeltrain.net/pixeltrains-academy/

I look forward to seeing you there!

Helge

Material Maker 1.5
19. January 2026

Material Maker 1.5 has been released

19. January 2026 By admin

The new release of Material Maker 1.5 has been released and is available for download:

👉 https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1312764/material-maker-15

Anyone looking for a free open-source solution for procedurally creating materials, textures, sprite sheets, etc. should definitely check out Material Maker.

More info like that on my Patreon:
👉 https://kurzlinks.de/3p4w

Have fun!

Helge

9. January 2026

Let’s talk about 2026

9. January 2026 By admin

Hi folks,
Today is my first work day in the new year, so it’s time to write my traditional years review on my (free) Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-talk-about-147466572?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

I wish you all a healthy, successful and creative year 2026.
The world needs more real (indie) artists and art than ever.

Ci vediamo, Helge Maus

P.S. For my upcoming Blender and Godot trainings, please look at pixeltrain Academy | Blender for Production | Godot Game Development for Indies

Krita 5.2.14 was released!
11. December 2025

Krita 5.2.14 release!

11. December 2025 By admin

Good news for all you digital painters: Krita 5.2.14 has been released.

Krita is for me the best digital painting application on the desktop and it’s free and open-source! I use if for making game assets, drafts and also animated characters for games.

This version is (almost) entirely a bug fix release and concludes the Krita 5.2 series.
The focus now shifts towards Krita versions 5.3 and 6.0 in the next year 🙂

As mentioned, this version primarily focuses on bug fixes, but the color picker has also been improved. Nice!

More information can be found here:
https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.14-released/

Have fun!

Helge

P.S. You can also read me Post on my (free) Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/krita-5-2-14-145607603?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Helge Maus - Senior Trainer & Mentor 3d | animation | game art | game dev
5. December 2025

Blender Modeling Course in December 2025

5. December 2025 By admin

The year is slowly coming to an end, and with it, our Blender training calendar for this year.

My last Blender Modeling course (2 days) in collaboration with Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz will take place online on December 18th and 19th. This is a german course.

Here’s the link to the course:
👉 https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/de/kurs/blender-modelingkurs/ff1b0321-e948-41c1-bca6-1c23651e75ea

If you’d like to learn Blender or Godot online in English, check out the pixeltrain Academy website:
👉 https://www.pixeltrain.net/pixeltrains-academy/

Have a amazing weekend! 🙂

Helge

Godot Engine 4.6 dev 5 is available!
3. December 2025

Godot Engine 4.6 dev 5 is available!

3. December 2025 By admin

A new development version of Godot, Godot 4.6 dev 5, has been available since yesterday.

It appears that the feature freeze for Godot 4.6 is planned for December 3rd, meaning that (almost) all new features have now been integrated.

This development version also includes several new features and improvements.

More information can be found in the blog post:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-dev-5/

And for those who want to try it out right away, test builds are available as always:
https://godotengine.org/download/archive/4.6-dev5/

Have fun,

Helge

P.S. If you are looking for Godot Engine Game Development trainings with Senior 3D & GameDev trainer Helge Maus you can contact me under http://www.pixeltrain.net/

BlackmagicDesign Fusion Tutorials by Helge Maus / pixeltrain
1. December 2025

Reworking my DaVinci Resolve & Fusion tutorials collection

1. December 2025 By admin

Hi folks,
At the moment I’m reworking the DaVinci Resolve & Fusion tutorials collection on my pixeltrain Patreon. So you now can watch all my tutorials there without YouTube’s advertising bombardment.

https://www.patreon.com/collection/533543

The introductory tutorials for BlackmagicDesign Fusion and Fusion in BlackmagicDesign DaVinci Resolve are now relinked and therefore available to all Patreons.

This software package is simply fantastic for anyone who wants to edit videos, composite animations and renderings, and create HUDs. I hope you enjoy it.

Let me know if you’d like to delve deeper into BlackmagicDesign Fusion.
Then we can plan more for the future.

Cheers,
Helge

19. November 2025

Blender 5.0 has arrived!

19. November 2025 By admin

A new era for Blender has begun – Blender 5.0 is a major step forward.

Many new features are included in this version, but unfortunately, this also means that many artists with older hardware will now have to remain on Blender 4.5 LTS. Some platforms and hardware configurations are no longer supported! I will be taking this into account in my training courses.

Many areas have undergone a massive overhaul:
ACES Colorspace, color management in general, adaptive subdivision, multi-resolution baking, shader nodes improvements, NanoVDB, Compositor improvments, VSE, and of course, numerous improvements to Geometry Nodes.
I love specially the Drag & Drop compositor setups and the ability to save out node-setups for the use in other files.

Again the Blender team made a wonderful overview page for all the features:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

Here’s the usual feature overview as a video, this time over 50 minutes long:
https://youtu.be/4wEqD-jK0DU?si=Ah2WbuMHIp2OixY2

The Story Tools have also been integrated now:
https://youtu.be/4wEqD-jK0DU?si=Ah2WbuMHIp2OixY2

Here is also a nice overview for the Grease Pencil features:
https://youtu.be/WYZY4n3fRM0?si=mLoz83gI6VMXA-6I

And here for the Blender 5.0 Animations & Rigging updates:
https://youtu.be/s3kcPME65ic?si=SCA6NiqO_3-ZPb_0

Overall, a very large update. I’m curious to see how these features are received in practice by the community.