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Book Excerpt: Animal Crossing tracks the rise of the original cozy life sim

Game Developer

Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.

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What does the process look like when removing a bug from your game? And how does the team decide which bugs to prioritize fixing?

Ask a Game Dev

The overall process of bug fixing in game dev is done in five steps. In order these are: Identify the bug Prioritize the bug Assign the bug Fix the bug Verify the bug is fixed Each step usually has its own specialists handling that aspect of it. Well go over each of these briefly.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1!

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Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

rc1 snapshot last week, we decided to make a second release candidate as a few more critical bugs had fixes available to backport. Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). After a first 4.4.1-rc1

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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix missing process_state error in blend spaces ( GH-104018 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). Audio: Set interactive music streams as meta streams ( GH-104054 ).

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Major Bugs with the Animation Timeline Tool in 3.8.1

Cocos

Here is what I know, somebody from our team is trying to make an animation. They need to make two animations and the first one worked great. The second one is bugging out really bad. What we did notice, however… was that he was still able to enter animation editing mode from scene edit mode.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Animation: Support hiding functions calls in Method Tracks ( GH-96421 ). Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs. 3D: Fix Camera3D gizmo representation to accurately reflect FOV ( GH-101884 ).

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