Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Fix GDScript bug causing return values to be reset in release builds. Note: There was a change in the internal format that PNG files get imported to, which you might experience as projects from earlier alphas reporting broken dependencies.

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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. Known issues. Bug reports.

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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 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 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 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. NET 6 support no longer requires libnethost, makes it easier to build( GH-65438 ). NET 6 support no longer requires libnethost, makes it easier to build( GH-65438 ). alpha builds. for instructions. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 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 , alpha 2 , alpha 3 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 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 , alpha 2 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

An ambitious game that combines medieval city building and kingdom defense with ARPG combat and monster hunting. “So, I then had enough time to focus on game dev, so I made the decision to start changing careers. I knew plenty of software devs, even some that were making games, but they worked for game companies. Definitely.

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Dev Development Build Game Developer 145

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. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 The new official buildsystem that our contributor Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart ( hpvb ) set up for us is now quite efficient, so we can roll out builds fast and easily.

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Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 24, 2019

alpha 3 as our next iteration, fixing various issues from the last build. As a reminder, the alpha stage corresponds for us to a feature freeze, as announced on GitHub at the end of August , which means that we will no longer consider pull requests with new features for merge in the master branch, and that until Godot 3.2

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. This first alpha build comes relatively late in our planned release schedule, mostly because of work done on our official build infrastructure to adapt to 3.2 Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 1, 2019

alpha 4 10 days ago, and it's now time for another alpha build, 3.1 This is the last alpha build before the beta stage, where we only merge critical bug fixes until the branch is stable enough for the final release. This last alpha mainly focuses on the build and release system. development build.

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Alpha Dev Bug Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2018

alpha 3 last week, and it's now time for another alpha build, 3.1 We plan to have a last alpha build within one week, and then we should be ready to move into the beta stage, where we only merge critical bug fixes until the branch is stable enough for the final release. development build. is released.

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Alpha Dev Bug Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Already more than a month since our previous alpha , yet we haven't been idle in the meantime. The alpha stage corresponds for us to a feature freeze (see announcement on GitHub ), which means that we will no longer consider pull requests with new features for merge in the master branch, and that until Godot 3.1 for this alpha (5.14

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Alpha Dev Bug Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Two months after our previous alpha , we are pleased to release Godot 3.1 alpha 2 , a new development snapshot of the master branch, moving slowly but steadily towards the beta status. IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1

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Alpha Dev Bug Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 31, 2018

alpha 1 is our first milestone towards the stable release of Godot 3.1, The alpha stage corresponds for us to a feature freeze , as announced on GitHub a few days ago, which means that we will no longer consider pull requests with new features for merge in the master branch, and that until Godot 3.1 for this alpha. is released.

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Alpha Dev Bug Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2017

alpha 2 is out, ready for your testing! It's also the first build to include the long awaited support for the C# programming language using Mono ! IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 A little treat (or is it a trick?)

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Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They've been building upon Godot 4.0 since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). What's new.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 101

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Beta Dev Collision Render 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). What’s new.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 78

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 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Bug 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Beta Dev Collision Render 81

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 ). We released Godot 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

After three well-tested and quite stable alpha builds, we're now ready to enter the beta stage for the upcoming Godot 3.2 beta 1 as our next iteration, fixing various issues from previous builds. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2

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Beta Dev Alpha Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions).

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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. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ).

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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. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Hello, and welcome back to another issue of the Kristala game dev blog! If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! 3D Asset Design. Check it out! Programming.

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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 ). We released Godot 4.0 Known issues.

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Mono build (C# support + all the above).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above). You need to have dotnet CLI or MSBuild installed to use the Mono build.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In previous years I’ve opened the review with a collage of dev images of varying themes and content, but approaching the end of this year we have one major theme that stands out, and that I’ll be writing more about below, so let’s hear it for the interface mockups! Numbers go up.

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Beta Alpha Mechanics Build 105

Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Stay tuned for updates in future Kristala dev blog issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. Moonwards is the experience of building a world together. Our three lovely devs can explain - Karim, Yael, and Zach. Components are encapsulated, self-sufficient building blocks.

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