What's Changed

Breaking changes

• Game and Scenes have been merged into GGT autoload
• pre_start() and start() methods are deprecated 43416b4. Instead you can do something like:

func _ready() -> void:
	var scene_data = GGT.get_current_scene_data()
	print("GGT: scene params ", scene_data.params)
        # you can update your game presentation here based on params (transform, materials, ...)
	if GGT.is_changing_scene(): # this will be false if starting the scene with "Run current scene" or F6 shortcut
            await GGT.change_finished
        # you can start your game logic here (AI, physics, ...)

• scenes.gd: get_last_loaded_scene_data() renamed to get_current_scene_data()
• release.sh simplified 02af2a2 : project name is now read automatically from project.godot
• refactored addon input actions and class names to use a GGT_ prefix whenever possibile to avoid name conflicts with game-related logic

New features

• ggt-debug-shortcuts: add frame advance 83de4fd
• ggt-debug-shortcuts: add game speed up 7249147
• automatic fallback to single threaded loading for web exports #103

Full Changelog: 2025.04.0...2026.06.0

Updated project for Godot 4.4.1 (basically only uid changes).

Also:

• CI: updated dependencies
• docs: added Pizza Poison to featured games

What's Changed

• Godot 4.2.1 support
• Project-wide custom theme 35f9134
  Users can now tweak UI from a single theme file (or create new ones when needed).
  A single theme should be ok for most cases: with Variations it's possible to have enough flexibility, see https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/gui_theme_type_variations.html or the original PR godotengine/godot#50169
• fix: exit button now is correctly removed on web platform
• fix: debug shortcuts. by @davcri in #87

Full Changelog: 2023.09.1...2024.01.1

Another refactor release.

• addon names are prefixed with ggt- : this makes it easier to distinguish Godot Game Template addons from other third party addons.
  • EG: ggt-core and ggt-debug-shortcuts
• easier configuration: ggt-core behaviour can be configured from config.tres. Previously users had to manually change values inside the addon scripts.

• added SFX and BGM audio bus
• fix: resource_stage_loaded signal emission 2a2f64b
• renamed Transition -> Transitions

Full Changelog: 2023.09.0...2023.09.1
Read more here

What's Changed

• Godot 4 support by @davcri in #81
• New addon: ggt-debug-shortcuts: P pause, R restart scene, Q quit, F toggles window fullscreen (debug shortcuts are available only in debug builds)
• Don't retain artifacts longer than a day by @idbrii in #78
• Use ResourceLoader cache #77

New Contributors

• @idbrii made their first contribution in #78

Known issues

• push-export.yml: export-mac binary is not runnable #82

Full Changelog: 2022.08.0...2023.09.0

What's Changed

• Godot 3.5 support
• fix enabling ITCH_IO and RELEASE_ANDROID options by @jrassa in #74
• fix: wait for old nodes to be completely removed from tree before starting a new scene by @davcri #72
• feat: call pre_start() and start() when playing a specific scene by @davcri in #73
• fix html5 CI by @davcri in #75
• new changelog system: now using Github autogenerated release notes. Old changelog file will be removed in future releases

New Contributors

• @jrassa made their first contribution in #74

Full Changelog: 2022.04.1...2022.10.0

🟢 Godot 3.4.4 support
🔵 Big refactoring of the template into a separate addon
🔵 Menu.tsnc: reduced the number of files. Smaller scripts and resources have
been merged
🔵 During transitions: scenes are not paused by default anymore. If users
want to pause scenes during transitions, it's possible to do it by setting
pause_scenes_on_transitions = true in Game.gd

🟢 Added Godot 3.4.2 support
🟢 Added Game.restart_scene() and Game.restart_scene_with_params(override_params)
🟢 Added scenes._history to keep track of scenes loading. Currently for internal use only.
History keeps track of the last 5 scenes and keeps track of their parameters.
🔵 gameplay.tscn: use Node as root node instead of Node2D.

Full changelog here

🟢 Added Godot 3.4 support. See #53
🔵 Use GLES3 renderer by default.
Safari 15 supports WebGL2 starting from version 15, this means that
GLES3 should be a safe default right now.

Full changelog here

🟢 Added dispatch export. Thanks to vini-guerrero! #50
⚪ Fixed blurred render on HiDPI devices
⚪ Fixed #49
🔵 Removed resources/ top level folder, closes #12

Full changelog here