Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 is a huge release that requires a lot of work, and because we're committed to providing dev snapshots frequently so that pre-release testers can quickly access the new features and bug fixes. alpha builds. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha 7 which should work fine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Bug reports. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Straight out of the Godot Sprint in Barcelona, here's another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Movie Maker run mode to record in-game footage for trailers/movies. Fix GDScript bug causing return values to be reset in release builds. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section.

Alpha 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. We got lots of bug reports and many have been fixed already in these two weeks! alpha 2 with a great deal of fixes and new features!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. All editor builds for this alpha have been updated with a hotfix. All editor builds for this alpha have been updated with a hotfix. alpha builds. Bug reports. So here we go with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition.

Alpha 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 Bug reports. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. alpha builds. for instructions. Known issues.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But no matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. with bug fix releases as we are dedicated to ensuring a stable experience as soon as possible. branch into our main development branch and other contributors joined in to add features and fix bugs. Countless bugs.

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Bug Beta Quality Assurance Feature 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

Beta 110

Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

Beta 98

Beta Dev Render Bug 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

Beta 85

Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Bug reports.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a great opportunity to discover Godot if you're not familiar with it yet, get some more experience if you know it already, or get to know some of the other awesome free and open source game engines or frameworks out there such as Phaser , LÖVE or LibGDX. currently at the alpha stage. currently at the alpha stage.

Alpha 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.4 Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. API documentation updates.

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

As the alpha of Godot 4.0 has so much new code (the engine was rewritten significantly), it will also require a large amount of time dedicated to bug-fixing and stabilization even after stable. This hardware does not posses enough video memory to run a modern game engine, anyway. Hello fellow developers!

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Collision 52

Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug 52

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This stage turns ideas into tangible game elements. Every aspect of the game undergoes examination. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. It’s a critical phase to identify and fix flaws before the game reaches the public.

Game Developer 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Jump to the Downloads section. if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.3 branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2

Render 52

Render Texture Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Bug reports.

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. Finally, if you think that you hit a bug in the engine, please report it on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix buffer upload size bugs affecting blendshapes ( GH-58085 ). Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.3

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! If you notice any mapping issue, please file a bug report. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

Bug 52

Bug Build Collision Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But no matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. with bug fix releases as we are dedicated to ensuring a stable experience as soon as possible. branch into our main development branch and other contributors joined in to add features and fix bugs. Countless bugs.

Bug 40

Bug Beta Quality Assurance Feature 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. Bug reports.

Beta 52

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