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Two Weeks Until GodotCon Boston

GodotCon Boston 2026 starts in just two weeks, and we hope to see you there.

Better Asset Placing and More Accessible Pricing: Xogot 1.6.4

Our latest App Store release brings a wide range of improvements to Xogot on iPad and iPhone. The two biggest changes are expanded regional pricing that makes Xogot significantly more affordable in several markets, and a new Asset Placer that makes building 3D scenes in Xogot much faster. 0:00

Xogot on Mac: Beta 2 is here

A lot has happened since we launched our Xogot for Mac Beta more than a month ago.

Xogot Jam 4 Is Headed Your Way: Build a Game with iPad, iPhone, or Mac!

Xogot Jam 4 starts soon! Join us August 7–16 for two weekends of game-making with Xogot, community collaboration, and prizes from our sponsors.

Xogot 1.6.2 is out

We just published Xogot 1.6.2, a quick follow-up release to our launch of Xogot 1.6, powered by Godot 4.6. With performance improvements, a redesigned MultiMeshInstance3D populate workflow, a much more usable GridMap editor, and early access to the Godot 4.7 shader previewer. Performance We

Xogot 1.6: Powered by Godot 4.6 with New Videos, Tutorials and Starter Kits

Xogot 1.6 is now available on the App Store for iPad and iPhone. This release brings Xogot forward to Godot 4.6 and adds new Learning Center content, including 2D and 3D tutorials and three new Kenney Starter Kits.

Xogot on Mac.

We are bringing Xogot, our styled version of Godot, to the Mac. The Xogot for Mac beta is open. If you want to try it, you can: Download Xogot Beta Xogot was born as a native user interface shell on top of the Godot game engine for iPad devices, and

Introducing the Asset Browser: Finding Your Stuff, Faster

One of the things that was cumbersome when using Xogot on the iPad was finding and placing your assets on the screen. The way that this works in Godot is that you find your image, 3D model and you drag and drop it into the editor. Or you can drop

Xogot Is Moving to Godot 4.6

Xogot builds based on Godot 4.6.1 are already available in XogotBeta. Learn what’s new, test your projects, and help us prepare the update for TestFlight and the App Store.

Meet the Xogot Team at GodotCon Amsterdam 2026

We’re excited to be heading to GodotCon Amsterdam 2026, happening this Thursday and Friday. This will be our fourth GodotCon, and we’re looking forward to reconnecting with the community, seeing what other developers are building with Godot, and taking part in the broader conversation around the engine. Xogot

Announcing the Winners of Xogot Jam 3

Xogot Jam 3 invited developers to build games around the theme Wrapped, and the results were creative, playful, and full of personality. We loved seeing the different ways developers interpreted the theme and the wide range of ideas they brought to building games with Xogot. Thank you to everyone who

Boston GameDev Week + Godot at PAX East 2026

PAX East kicks off this Thursday, but if you’re a game developer in Boston, the real action has already begun. This week is Boston GameDev Week (BGW). A full slate of events organized by the Boston GameDev community. If you’re in town for PAX or live nearby, it’

Everything We Added This Year to Help You Learn Xogot

Over the past several months, we’ve been picking up momentum in publishing documentation, tutorials, and instructional content designed to help people get started with Xogot and deepen their understanding of how to make games with Godot on iPad and iPhone.

Xogot Jam 3 Theme Reveal: "Wrapped"

Xogot Jam 3 is officially underway. To mark the start of the jam, and the beginning of the holiday season, we are excited to reveal this round’s theme: Wrapped Wrapped is a theme about layers, presentation, and what is revealed when something is opened up. You can interpret the

Xogot Is Moving to Godot 4.5 — Beta Builds Available Now

We’re excited to share that Xogot now has builds based on Godot 4.5.1 available for testing.

Xogot Jam 3 Is Coming + Jam 2 Winners

Xogot Jam 3 is happening in just under a month! Join us for just over 2 weeks of holiday tinkering, small side projects, and creative exploration on iPad or iPhone.

Introducing Xogot Connect — Remote Debugging for Godot on iPhone and iPad

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Xogot Connect, a new Godot extension available in the Godot Asset Library. Xogot Connnect bridges your desktop Godot editor to Xogot on iOS enabling you to run and debug your games on iPhone or iPad over Wi-Fi. With Xogot Connect,

Xogot to Xogot: Remote Debugging

Xogot, our port of Godot to iOS is gaining a new feature: remote debugging. You can now pair two iOS devices (two iPads, two iPhone, or an iPhone and an iPad) to use one as your development environment, where you design, make changes and write code, and the other to

Xogot's Documentation Repo Is Public and Open for Contributions

We're excited to share that the XogotDocs repository is now public and open for contributions! Great documentation makes great tools even better. By opening XogotDocs to the public, we’re making it easier for anyone to help improve the learning experience for Xogot users.

Xogot's New Command Palette

Inspired by macOS Spotlight and the Command Palette in VSCode, Xogot's new Command Palette offers a better way to navigate and search your projects and makes using Xogot faster, smoother, and more powerful than ever.

We're hiring!

We’re opening a few entry‑level, remote roles to help us support creators, grow our community, and teach more people how to build games on iPhone and iPad. We’ve launched a new Jobs page with all the details. Roles are remote, entry‑level, and can be part‑time

Xogot Jam 2 Theme Reveal: “Liquid Glass”

Xogot Jam 2 starts today! And with such perfect timing, how could the theme be anything other than “Liquid Glass”?

Announcing Xogot Jam 2: Build a Game with Godot on iPad or iPhone!

Join us for just over two weeks (three weekends!) of building, experimenting, and creating games entirely on iPad or iPhone with Xogot.

Make Games Anywhere: Introducing Godot for iPhone and Xogot Lite

Since the beginning of time, or at least since the launch of Xogot for iPad, developers have asked: “But can you put Godot on the iPhone?”

Xogot for Godot Contributors and OSS Maintainers

If you're a contributor to the Godot engine, or you maintain an open source Godot add-on or asset, we’d love to support you with a free Xogot license.

Blissful UI Development with SwiftUI and Godot.

Xogot is a SwiftUI interface built on top of the Godot engine. To speed up development, we needed a way to build large portions of the user interface without having to compile and deploy the entire project every time. A full build of the app in Godot takes a couple

Xogot for Students

Starting today, we’re offering 1-year Xogot subscriptions to any currently enrolled student free for personal use.

Winners of the First Xogot Jam!

The results are in! Our very first Xogot Game Jam has wrapped up, and we were blown away by the creativity and experimentation from everyone who participated.

Xogot Jam #1 Theme Reveal: “You’re holding it wrong”

We’re excited to kick off the very first Xogot Game Jam — and the theme is: "You’re holding it wrong" Whether you choose to interpret it literally, metaphorically, or ironically, we can’t wait to see what you come up with. Games can explore orientation, misunderstanding, user

Announcing: Our First Xogot Game Jam

Build a game with Godot — on your iPad! We’re excited to announce our first-ever Xogot Game Jam! Ten days where creators can explore what’s possible with Godot on iPad. Whether you’re a seasoned Godot developer interested in trying a project out on a mobile device or

Export to Itch: Downloadable Exports Now Available

When we launched Xogot last month, one of our favorite features was giving you the ability to share your game directly to the web with a single tap. No export targets, no hosting setup, no extra configuration. Your game is instantly playable in any modern browser with an easy to

Xogot Pricing Update: Free Trial, Lower Prices, and Lifetime Unlock

It’s been just over two weeks since we launched Xogot, bringing the ability to edit and run Godot projects natively on iPad to the Apple App Store. Thousands of developers have downloaded Xogot in that time, and the app has ranked consistently among the top downloads in the App

Xogot at PAX East

After an exciting first half of the week at GodotCon Boston, Miguel, James, and I are out at PAX East this weekend showing off Xogot — our native port of the Godot game engine for iPad. If you want to see just how powerful and intuitive Godot development on iPad can

Xogot: Godot for iPad - Available on the App Store

We’re thrilled to announce that Xogot, our native port of the Godot game engine for iPad, is now available on the Apple App Store! Xogot brings the full power of Godot 4.4 to a touch-first, iPad-native experience - complete with an integrated code editor, 2D and 3D

Godot 4.4 Xogot in TestFlight

Our Xogot builds in TestFlight are now based on Godot 4.4.1, bringing several major improvements to the experience of developing your projects on the iPad.  Godot 4.4 delivers many great features and improvements, but Xogot developers will find these features particularly impactful: Metal Rendering Backend Historically, Godot

Giving users some Quick Wins

When I first started using Godot as a casual observer, I could tell it was a very powerful system, but I also struggled to get some basic things in place. While certainly following tutorials, reading forums, and participating online would bring clarity, I felt that there were parts of Godot

Share Your Work

On Surveys, most Godot users do not target mobile. Part of the problem is the extra steps that people have to take to target the platform.  We think we can change that with Xogot.

Xogot: Animations Tab

Let me start by apologizing for not posting updates more frequently. I am sure a better engineer would have found the time to use an AI bot to write this, but instead, I have decided to expand my list of unmarketable skills and write this update on my own - with

Xogot Preview Update

One month ago, we began publishing TestFlight previews of Xogot to those who signed up for our private preview.   If you’re not already in the preview program, you can sign up to join the Xogot TestFlight here. I had been dragging my feet on publishing this release to squeeze

Xogot: Godot on iPad Preview

We are now ready for folks interested in testing it and finding places where we fall short of the expectations of iPadOS users and aspiring game developers to take it for a spin and help us identify the bumps in the road.

Godot on iPad: Summer Update

This is a long-due update on porting Godot to the iPad.  Shortly after my last blog post covering the development work on May 29th, Apple held its WWDC 2024 conference.   I went into the conference with gusto, expecting to fully embrace all the iOS 18 APIs. I already knew

Godot on iPad, Part 8: Code Editing

This post continues the series on creating an iPad-native UI for Godot using SwiftUI. Today, I will discuss how I replaced the text editing experience in Godot for iPad with a native user experience. The Godot editor is written as a Godot application, and the text editor for authoring

Part 7: Project Settings

This post continues the series on creating an iPad-native UI for Godot using SwiftUI. Once Godot's main user interface elements were rewritten into SwiftUI, I looked for the next high-traffic target and landed on the Project Settings dialog. My original intent was to ship Godot on

Part 6: It's time for some Menu Game Theory.

The next victim on my quest to iPad-ificate Godot was the top-level menu. Despite having a slender menu in an industry dominated by uncontrolled menu bloat, on the iPad, this menu still looks like ordering a burrito at a French restaurant. I am not a UI designer, so

Part 5: Making Godot Viable on iPadOS: Development Loop

Before I embarked on pouring my heart and soul into making a native iPadOS user experience of Godot, I needed to make sure that I would end up with a viable version of Godot. Building Godot to run on iPad is straightforward. The command line to do this is quite

Part 4: Godot with SwiftUI

At my talk in November, I talked about my work on the Swift bindings for Godot - allowing Swift developers to write Godot games using Swift and accessing the API that Godot exposes to developers. I also proposed rewriting chunks of Godot's own Game Editor using Swift. I have

Part 3: iGodot: ScenePad

In the previous post, I discussed the role of the Split View on iGodot. In this post, I will discuss the ScenePad, which sits at the top of the sidebar on the left: The ScenePad plays an essential role in developing your game. It provides a way of managing the

iGodot: Split View

This is part of the "iGodot" series of blog posts where I discuss the design and engineering decisions for adapting Godot to be a bonafide iPad application. You will find some familiar elements when you first launch the Godot Editor on a desktop.  The UI is divided into

Xogot - Godot on iPad (was: iGodot)

Last fall, I realized you could compile the Godot game engine to run on the iPad. This presented exciting possibilities, combining two of my loves: the Godot open-source project, and the iPad operating system. And while Godot can run on the iPad with minimal effort, it remains essentially a

Simpler Terminal Input

Command line users are known to spend inordinate sums of money on custom keyboards with special sounds to set their mood and achieve flow. Using a terminal on iPhones or iPads can interrupt this flow as you are you are forced to peck your way around an on-screen keyboard,

El Cubo: La Terminal Enters the Third Dimension

We launched La Terminal just over a year ago with a vision of pushing the boundaries of what the command line experience could be in this mobile-first era, and today we are excited to announce the launch of El Cubo, which will take your terminal experience beyond the two-

El Comandante: Leading your files to victory

We are thrilled to announce the release of La Terminal 1.4 - our most impressive update yet! Packed with new features and important improvements, this version caters to the needs of all La Terminal users. These features are so bold in nature, that we updated our icon to accentuate the

Network Monitoring and iPad Windowing

La Terminal's March release is out, and it is packed with new features: New network monitoring visualization, split windows and multiple screen support on the iPad, drag and drop for uploading files and much more. Network Monitoring Resource monitors now include a network traffic visualization that plots data

More Powerful Visualizations in La Terminal

We just pushed a shiny new La Terminal to the App Store, featuring new and improved navigation, exciting new resource visualizations, and an integrated learning path to help you get the most out of your La Terminal sessions. In a move hailed by industry experts as "bold", "

El Preservador: SSHing Responsibly on iOS

With La Terminal, we strive to offer an SSH client that just works on iOS. With this in mind, I set out to make design decisions on behalf of users that would provide an experience that works out of the box while providing the best terminal emulator experience they deserve.

Introducing El Copiloto: The AI Assistant for La Terminal

Today, we are introducing El Copiloto - an AI assistant to help you craft commands when connected to a remote system using La Terminal. With El Copiloto, you no longer have to struggle with remembering complex commands or scouring the internet for solutions to your terminal problems. Simply tap the brain

Welcome to La Terminal

Towards Better Terminal Emulators In 1992, I fell in love with Unix and Linux, and I set this as my new home. I was coming from the world of DOS and Windows. While DOS was a limited operating system, there was a tremendous amount of innovation in text user interfaces.