fave-godot-addons

A (hopefully well-maintained) list of Godot Addons that I love to add on. Amirite? add on?!

Apologies for that lame pun.

Not too much yet - this post will grow! I intend to be able to point folks here as a sort of personal ‘awesome-godot-addons’ list.

Right now these are sorted alphabetically.

Note there is a bit of bias - some of these are addons I’ve created.

• Aseprite Wizard
• Bones
• GDUnit
• Input Helper
• Log.gd
• MetSys
• Pandora
• Phantom Camera
• Sound Manager

• github.com/viniciusgerevini/godot-aseprite-wizard
• docs

Out of the box time-savings with this one! You can drag+drop an aseprite file onto an AnimatedSprite2D, and it’ll create the sprite frames for you using your your tags from Aseprite.

• github.com/russmatney/bones

A suite of addons that I pulled out of Dino. Should perhaps be broken down further at some point - but I’m letting these tools evolve a bit first.

• github.com/MikeSchulze/gdUnit4
• GDUnit docs
• https://github.com/MikeSchulze/gdUnit4-action

A super solid Godot unit test framework - includes a companion github action workflow!

There is also GUT, but I’ve found I prefer GDUnit’s handling of certain crash-situations.

• github.com/nathanhoad/godot_input_helper
• docs

Mics Input Handling boilerplate for managing changing controllers, detecting inputs, etc. Quite useful, and something you’d probably end up writing yourself anyway!

• github.com/russmatney/log.gd
• docs

A print() replacement that adds colors to Godot’s output window. Includes a prefix with the script and line number that made the call.

• github.com/KoBeWi/Metroidvania-System
• docs

A solid set of building blocks for creating Metroidvanias in Godot. Check it out!

• github.com/bitbrain/pandora
• docs

I adopted Pandora before fully understanding Godot’s Custom Resources - so lately I try to go as far as I can with those before bringing in the full-Pandora experience.

Pandora provides some excellent UX improvements to Custom Resources, with the added bonus of managing entities and derived instances of those entities. It’s quite nice!

• github.com/ramokz/phantom-camera
• docs

All kinds of camera features that you’ll want, available out of the box, and quite customizable. Check it out!

• github.com/nathanhoad/godot_sound_manager
• docs

Sound managing boilerplate that you’d probably have to write anyway! Much thanks to Nathan Hoad for another great addon.