Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 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. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Jump to the Downloads section.

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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 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

A lot of work was done, but almost nothing worked and so many features were unfinished. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing. As a result, 2022 became a year of focus on stabilizing and finishing all major remaining issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

A lot of work was done, but almost nothing worked and so many features were unfinished. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing. As a result, 2022 became a year of focus on stabilizing and finishing all major remaining issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2021

(you are here) GDScript progress report: Feature-complete for 4.0. One of the most requested features of GDScript is now implemented: typed arrays. That allows you to do safe operations with homogeneous arrays and also allow the language to optimize a few more code paths. Typed arrays. You can also rely on type inference.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This can be partially achieved using a bindless resource model where all required resources are available directly from the shader code on GPU without explicit CPU-side bindings. Alpha tested geometry. High-poly geometry, with alpha testing like hair and fur, can be challenging for direct tracing.

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Game Errors

JUNE 14, 2023

If you have played the alpha version of the game, you will probably encounter numerous errors, such as error code 50000. What is Star Citizen error code 50000 and how to fix it is the subject of this article. What is error code 50000 in Star Citizen? How do I fix error code 50000 in Star Citizen? Get DriverFix 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ).

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you’re a complete beginner who never coded a single game in Unity, start with the tutorial in the link below: Getting Started With Unity And C# If however, you know how to create basic games in Unity on your own, then you can follow this tutorial to implement this effect in your game. What Is a Shader?

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AWS Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

It leverages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through HashiCorp Terraform and enables version control, automation, and consistent multi-environment deployments. The Terraform code provided in the solution is based on the Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform. Figure 1: Agones and Open Match deployment on Amazon EKS.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2017

We know Godot has been known for many years to have a relatively stable master/HEAD at Github, so users can try the new features in their projects with very little risk of breaking them. Moreover, starting new projects in the HEAD branch, using the new features and expecting them to work with the upcoming 3.0 Projects from Godot 1.x

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AWS Games

JULY 23, 2024

Already used by 25 percent of alpha testers exploring Krafton ’s UGC metaverse OVERDARE , Kinetix’s personalized AI emote creation tool is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies. Set to launch by the end of 2024, it runs on servers powered by AWS and is currently in an alpha test phase on Android in Southeast Asia.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

I don’t have to ask someone else for their artwork, or their code. Any time off means you delay your game by that much time, or cut features, or reduce quality. I use several different approaches which usually depend on the scope or impact of the feature. Definitely. Would it be better with a great team? Definitely!

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 12, 2017

All core features of Godot are expected to work fine: Builtins (e.g. On top of that, mixing GDScript and Python code inside a project should work fine, have a look at the Pong example to see how you can convert one by one your existing GDScript code to Python fairly easily. alpha (yes, it's a beta based on an alpha.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Let me tell you that this amazing new feature by karroffel and Bojidar Marinov ( bojidar-bg ) is the real deal. Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. Seeing the code. Stay tuned!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

s development officially entered the beta stage last week, which coincides for us with what we name the feature freeze : from now on, no new features will be merged in the master branch, as the focus will be fully on fixing existing issues to stabilize the current feature set. beta 1 , just one month after the previous alpha 2.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Stage 2: Alpha Testing As the game develops, alpha testing becomes a crucial stage where our QA team carefully examines the main parts of gameplay. We carefully check the main functions, controls, and systems.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Download the project source code for free at： [ CocosCyberpunk ] Many articles talk about the differences between Forward Rendering and Deferred Rendering on the Internet. AO : float, range 0.0 ~ 1.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Small demos are great at giving you a sense for how some features work, but they can only take you so far: most games are composed of many systems that interact in complex ways. There's never a single solution on how to structure your code and achieve your creative vision. alpha to cover turn-based combat.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 15, 2021

With features that improve video, audio, and augmented reality, the SDK has the potential to massively improve the output of different types of media, vastly improving the user experience for various use cases. It was as simple as looking at the sample code, putting the relevant code segments in their proper places, and hitting compile.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 16, 2020

Soon we will see if this opportunity space is big enough to support startup creator platforms like Buildbox and Manticore: Buildbox is a no-code platform that uses templates and visual scripting to enable the development of mobile games. Sign up to our newsletter and receive the weekly digest of news like the one you just read. First Name.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

February was spent mostly rewriting the import and export workflow of Godot, so not many pretty visual features were added. This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold. Seeing the code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. while(accum < max_dist) { float d = texture_sdf(at); accum+=d; if (d < 0.01) { break; } at += d * dir; } float alpha = 1.0-min(1.0,accum/max_dist); accum/max_dist); if (accum < fade_margin) { alpha *= max(0.0,accum

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It can be from well-defined feature branches (or in our situation Pull Requests) that are merged into master once ready, or with development work happening directly on this branch. As we do our releases directly from the master branch after a stabilization period (feature freeze, release freeze and then branching off to e.g. 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2016

Reusing existing code and assets is allowed. We see this jam as an opportunity for each community member to share their knowledge with other users, which is why we ask that all games developed for this jam are published with their source code and assets under open source licenses , thus helping build quality examples for new Godot users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. This code no longer runs in the CPU, in fact it runs on the GPU! Vertices have to be transformed in 3D space, and there are many features the engine provides for you such as: Taking care of normals, tangent arrays, etc. Vertex Program.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time. Screenshot of upcoming support for async/await next weeks: AR/VR features. 3D freelook navigation mode.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Streamline is the NVIDIA open-source cross-IHV framework that simplifies the integration of features like DLSS 3. This SDK demonstrates best practices for building a path tracer using the latest versions of the following tools and features: DLSS 3 for super-resolution and frame generation, to multiply performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance).

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2017, the Alpha Zero program from DeepMind made news when it learned to play and conquer chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go using deep reinforcement learning (deep RL.) The Alpha Zero program used an algorithm where an untrained neural network played millions of games against itself, adjusting play based on its outcome.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Most of the internal code in Godot was written over a decade ago, and many design decisions that were taken back then, did not stand the test of time. The result of this work has been mostly a lot of simplification in the internals, resulting in more performance and more readable code. While the 3.0 Internal changes. Better locking.

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