Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We just announced that we'll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 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.

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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.

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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. What's new. 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. 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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. 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.

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

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 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We have been in feature freeze since mid-August and have been focused on fixing workflow breaking bugs since then (well, we have accepted some small features and enhancements on occasion). branch into our main development branch and other contributors joined in to add features and fix bugs. prior to release is in full swing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

The reasoning behind this late feature addition is that, now that we released 3.0 alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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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

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 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 99

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 ).

Beta 110

Beta Dev Render Collision 110

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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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.

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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.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Game Developer Game Development Development Engineering 100

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

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

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io 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.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Of course, if you are working on a game there is a lot more things going on. 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. It's much, much simpler and the reason people use game engines in the first place :).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. alpha is around the corner now (we have been pushing pre-alpha builds recently), so looking forward to a release soon!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

We have listened to and worked with our awesome community to make Godot one of the easiest game development environments to use. There are countless new features in this version (see the full changelog, chronological or listed by contributor ). One of the most requested features is finally here! New AnimatedSprite features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We used Fracteed's demo to showcase the engine, along with Zylann's Wallrider. Enthusiasts, hobbyists, and even some Unity users looking for an alterative to their game engine! More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. We met a lot of friendly people interested in Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). Core: Print every file exported with PCKPacker.flush() 's verbose parameter ( GH-58520 ). API documentation updates.

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. no longer works in 3.2.3

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. beta 1 and RC 1.

Collision 52

Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. A very long-since requested feature has finally made it to Godot. Decals are now supported in the engine. As you can see, a lot of cool new features were added this month!

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