# ziva.sh

> AI-optimized mirror of ziva.sh containing 51 pages totalling 35,274 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://ziva.sh/. Last updated: 2026-06-13T19:44:24.576Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Homepage

- [Build Godot Games2x Faster](/content/site-root.html): AI plugin for Godot 4. Reads your scene tree, edits nodes from chat, generates GDScript, debugs editor errors. Free to start on Win/Mac/Linux. (1,339 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [blogs/vibe-coding-games/index.html](/content/blogs/vibe-coding-games/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/solo-game-development/index.html](/content/blogs/solo-game-development/index.html) (1 words)
- [Slay the Spire 2 on Godot: A $108M Vindication](/content/blogs/slay-the-spire-2-godot/index.html): Mega Crit scrapped two years of Unity work and rebuilt Slay the Spire 2 on Godot. It earned $108M in March 2026. Why the bet paid off. (1,574 words)
- [How to Use AI with Godot Game Engine: Complete Tutorial](/content/blogs/how-to-use-ai-with-godot-game-engine/index.html): Learn how to integrate AI tools into your Godot workflow. Step-by-step guide to using AI for code generation, scene creation, and game development in Godot 4. (1,563 words)
- [Ziva Release: The Best AI Godot Plugin Upgrades to Free GPT Mini](/content/blogs/ziva-release-free-gpt-mini-undo-button/index.html): Ziva's latest update brings GPT Mini to the free tier, an Undo button for every file change, message queuing, in-editor Godot docs search, and dozens of stability fixes. The best AI Godot plugin just got better. (1,594 words)
- [Pixel Art for Games: A Practical Guide for Developers Who Cannot Draw](/content/blogs/pixel-art-tutorial/index.html): You do not need to be an artist to make pixel art for your game. Here are the tools, techniques, and AI workflows that shipped indie games actually use. (1,336 words)
- [How Much Do Indie Games Actually Make on Steam?](/content/blogs/indie-game-revenue/index.html): Indie games generated $4.4 billion on Steam in 2025. The median game earned $249. Here is where the money actually goes, broken down by data from Valve, VG Insights, and Alinea Analytics. (1,036 words)
- [How LLMs Recommend Godot AI Tools (70-Probe Study)](/content/blogs/how-llms-recommend-godot-ai-tools/index.html): We ran 70 search queries across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Kimi to see which Godot AI tools they recommend. Results, citation chains, and gaps. (1,027 words)
- [Unity vs Godot 2026: Which Wins with AI Coding Tools](/content/blogs/unity-vs-godot-2026-ai/index.html): Unity has Muse and ML-Agents. Godot has Ziva, Godot AI MCP, and a text-first architecture. Which engine pairs better with AI coding assistants in 2026? (997 words)
- [Install Ziva](/content/download/index.html): Download the best AI plugin for Godot 4.2+. Free AI-powered code generator and assistant. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux. Install in minutes. (170 words)
- [Ziva 2.4: Smarter Scenes, Better Testing, New Models](/content/blogs/ziva-2-4-release/index.html): Ziva 2.4 ships reworked scene editing tools scoring 30% higher on our benchmark suite at 20% lower cost, plus GPT 5.3 Codex and Linux auto-updates. (923 words)
- [16 days, 4 channels, no AWS Bedrock quota fix](/content/blogs/no-aws-bedrock-quota-fix/index.html): AWS Bedrock denied our quota increase on May 1. 16 days, 4 escalation channels, and no fix. Full timeline of what happened and what we tried. (825 words)
- [How to Make a Video Game in 2026: A Practical Guide With Real Numbers](/content/blogs/how-to-make-a-video-game/index.html): 5,400 people search this every month. Most guides give you vague steps. This one gives you real timelines, real costs, and a clear engine recommendation backed by data. (1,578 words)
- [Claude Opus 4.6-Level Performance Will Cost as Much as Claude 3.5 Haiku in 12 Months](/content/blogs/llm-pricing-decline-analysis/index.html): Claude Opus 4.6 currently costs $15/$75 per million tokens. Based on HumanEval benchmark trends, Opus 4.6-level performance hits $1.50-$2 in 12 months. (294 words)
- [MiniMax M2.5 is Very Good](/content/blogs/minimax-m25-very-good/index.html): We benchmarked MiniMax M2.5 against Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3 Flash on a real game-building task. MiniMax completed everything at half the cost. (450 words)
- [Package Upgrades Feel Like Russian Roulette](/content/blogs/npm-supply-chain-roulette/index.html): Axios just got compromised. 83M weekly downloads. A RAT on every machine. Here's what shipping desktop software taught us about npm supply chain risk. (409 words)
- [blogs/steam-next-fest-2026/index.html](/content/blogs/steam-next-fest-2026/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-state-machine/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-state-machine/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-vs-gamemaker/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-vs-gamemaker/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-tilemap/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-tilemap/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-procedural-generation/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-procedural-generation/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-shaders/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-shaders/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-community-poll-2025/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-community-poll-2025/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-mobile/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-mobile/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/godot-3d/index.html](/content/blogs/godot-3d/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/game-development-cost/index.html](/content/blogs/game-development-cost/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/game-design-document/index.html](/content/blogs/game-design-document/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/claude-godot/index.html](/content/blogs/claude-godot/index.html) (1 words)
- [blogs/best-ai-tools-for-godot-game-engine/index.html](/content/blogs/best-ai-tools-for-godot-game-engine/index.html) (1 words)
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- [Godot Ray Tracing: The NVIDIA RTX Fork](/content/blogs/godot-ray-tracing/index.html): NVIDIA shipped a path tracing fork of Godot at GDC 2026. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and why it matters for the engine's future. (1,593 words)
- [Godot 4.7 Beta: HDR, AreaLight3D, and 1,265 Fixes](/content/blogs/godot-4-7/index.html): Godot 4.7 beta 1 shipped April 24, 2026 with HDR output, AreaLight3D, VirtualJoystick, and 1,265 fixes. Stable release ~late June. Full changelog inside. (2,027 words)
- [Godot vs Unity in 2026: An Honest, Data-Backed Comparison](/content/blogs/godot-vs-unity/index.html): Godot is catching Unity in adoption and beats it on cost. Unity still wins on 3D tooling, console support, and asset ecosystem. Here's the sourced data to help you decide. (1,137 words)
- [Game Development Costs Are Rising 8% Per Year](/content/blogs/game-development-cost-trend/index.html): Using the same studio-level build-up methodology from our $50B estimate, we work backwards through 2022–2026 to show how game development costs have grown from $37B to $50B — a 35% increase in four years. (1,049 words)
- [GDScript vs C# in Godot: Which Should You Pick?](/content/blogs/gdscript-vs-csharp/index.html): 84% of Godot devs use GDScript. Here's when C# is actually worth it, with real benchmarks, shipped game data, and a decision framework. (1,376 words)
- [Best Game Engine for Beginners in 2026](/content/blogs/best-engine-beginners/index.html): Godot is the best engine for most beginners: free, 50 MB download, and Python-like scripting. Here's how it compares to Unity, Unreal, and GameMaker. (1,070 words)
- [Godot vs Unreal Engine in 2026](/content/blogs/godot-vs-unreal/index.html): Godot is best for 2D and stylized 3D indie games. Unreal dominates photorealistic AAA. Here's data, costs, and a real migration story. (990 words)
- [Godot Multiplayer in 2026: What Actually Works](/content/blogs/godot-multiplayer/index.html): Godot 4 multiplayer: ENet, WebRTC, MultiplayerSpawner, third-party netcode. Concurrent-player benchmarks, what Dome Keeper shipped, what's still missing. (966 words)
- [Generative AI in Game Development: Data Shows Productivity Dominates, Creative Replacement Doesn't](/content/blogs/gdc-2026-generative-ai-game-development-data/index.html): Analysis of three years of GDC State of the Game Industry reports (2024-2026) on generative AI adoption in game development. Data shows AI usage concentrates in productivity workflows while creative replacement remains low. (917 words)
- [AI coding tools and code privacy](/content/blogs/ai-coding-tools-and-code-privacy/index.html): A technical deep-dive into Ziva's privacy architecture for Godot: what we store, what we don't, and what we send to LLM providers. Your code stays private. (438 words)
- [You Can't Prompt Your Way Past Incompetence](/content/blogs/ai-cant-replace-taste/index.html): AI tools amplify expertise, they don't replace it. Data from GDC 2026, a CHI study, and real developer stories show why domain knowledge still decides quality. (1,058 words)
- [Where Does Your $70 Go When You Buy a Video Game?](/content/blogs/game-price-breakdown/index.html): For every $70 you spend on a major game, roughly $21 goes to the platform, $3.50 to the engine, $15–$25 to marketing, $8–$20 to development, and $0–$15 is profit. Most AAA games need 5–10 million copies just to break even. (744 words)
- [The Best Game Engines for 2D Games in 2026](/content/blogs/best-2d-game-engines/index.html): For most 2D games in 2026, Godot is the best choice. It is free, open source, has no royalties, and treats 2D as a first-class citizen. Here is the data, the tradeoffs, and a recommendation for each use case. (1,100 words)
- [Godot Growth Stats](/content/blogs/godot-growth-stats/index.html): Godot grew from 19% to 39% of GMTK Jam entries, hit 108K GitHub stars, and crossed 5% of Steam 2024 releases. The 2026 adoption data, sourced. (372 words)
- [Claude Code tips for large projects](/content/blogs/claude-code-tips-large-projects/index.html): How we use Claude Code with Skills, VMs, and automated testing to develop Ziva - a GUI plugin for Godot - across multiple parallel development environments. (606 words)
- [Don’t Post on Product Hunt](/content/blogs/dont-post-on-product-hunt/index.html): We posted Ziva on Product Hunt hoping for SEO benefits. Instead, we got an inbox full of spam from people selling us Reddit bots. Here's why it's not worth it. (356 words)
- [Don't Use Google Workspace](/content/blogs/dont-use-google-workspace/index.html): Google Workspace locked out our admin on GrapheneOS and our employee under house arrest in one morning. We regret switching from Zoho Mail. (305 words)
- [Best AI Tools for Godot in 2026: 11 Plugins Compared](/content/blogs/best-ai-tools-for-godot-2026/index.html): We tested 11 Godot AI plugins (Ziva, Godot AI MCP, Summer Engine, GameDev Assistant, more) against 7 LLMs in 2026. Honest picks by use case. (1,139 words)
- [How to Publish a Game on Steam in 2026](/content/blogs/publish-game-steam/index.html): Publishing on Steam costs $100 upfront and 30% of every sale. Here is the step-by-step process, the fee math, and what the data says about your chances. (940 words)
- [Godot VR in 2026: Meta's Bet, Quest Editor, What Ships](/content/blogs/godot-vr/index.html): Godot 4.6 ships OpenXR 1.1, Spatial Entities, frame synthesis. Meta funds W4 for Quest. Here's what Godot VR actually supports in 2026 vs Unity/Unreal. (1,960 words)

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