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 (and Xogot) have relied on MoltenVK to provide a Vulkan-API compatible backend to Godot’s Forward+ and Mobile renderers.   With the new Metal backend, Godot no longer needs to render through a Vulkan abstraction layer and can now render directly to iOS Metal.  Using Metal directly provides a significant performance improvement in Xogot for projects using Forward+ or Mobile renderers.  

Basing Xogot on Godot 4.4 also makes it possible for us to support projects that are configured to use OpenGL, addressing a challenge many TestFlight users encountered when trying to open projects that were primarily targeting web.

Jolt Physics

Nearly a quarter of developers who have signed up for our TestFlight indicated that they use the Godot Jolt Extension for 3D Physics, so we’re very excited to announce that Xogot now ships with the Jolt physics engine - no native extension required.

To enable Jolt in your project, you can select “Jolt Physics” as your Physics Engine in the Physics..3D section in Project Settings in Xogot, and re-open your project.

Embedded Game Player

Godot 4.4 popularized running the game in an editor tab, and we have brought that functionality to the iPad, along with the debugging aids that come with it.   

Similar to its desktop counterpart, running your project inside the game view allows you to interact with the editor, including selecting and inspecting nodes in the scene, while running the game.

Asset Library

Our latest releases also feature a new native UI to access Godot Assets in the Asset Library.  

For now, we’re only surfacing a few of the most popular assets that we expect to work well with Xogot, but if there is a Godot Asset you would like to see in the Asset Library, please let us know!

Xogot TestFlight

We still have room in TestFlight for anyone interested in trying out our latest builds.  Sign up at xogot.com!