Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 3, 2025

This works with animals. Most examples of something cute based off of something scary use body proportions closer to a child's body (or the animal equivalent) than an adult's. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on BlueSky Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it. The post Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development Not as chaotic as Unity appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 13, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Bleak Faith: Forsaken developer Archangel Studios has rejected accusations of stealing Elden Ring animations. Read more

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Animation Animation Dev Studios 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! Jump to the Downloads section. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 101

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Later, at Pixar, he worked on animated classics like Toy Story 3 and Brave that went on to win three Oscars. Now its an independent studio of 30 developers, animators, storytellers and artists. To make sense of all the information that players gather during their adventure, the dev team came up with the evidence board system.

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Pixel Games Asset Animation 104

PreMortem.Games

MAY 6, 2024

French solo dev Matthieu Houllier , operating under the name Brute Force , has been making games by himself for five years. I was lucky enough to release my first game Crumble as a solo-dev, it did way above what I anticipated and allowed me to live off of gamedev.” In that time he has released the 3D platform game Crumble. “It

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the game now announced for a 2024-release, the part time solo dev is motivated to finish the game. There have been times in my work at Blizzard where I’ve made an animation or edited a PSD file or a 3D model to iterate more quickly on a design and the designers on those teams have let me know how much they appreciate it.”

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

Chinese developer and publisher Nuverse is using AI for all NPC speech and animation in games. For its upcoming science fiction survival title Earth: Revival the development team used a system to generate speech and compute full body animations for NPCs, without any manual intervention. It even helps writing the lines.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Working in Mixed Reality, I met many ex game devs and artists, who I learned from and was greatly inspired by. Although we weren’t making games, the tech for Mixed Reality was identical to making games, so I picked up a lot of technical ability with Unity, game dev, shaders and more.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Animation: Allow AnimationStateMachine / AnimationNode to restart when transitioning to the same state ( GH-71418 ). XR: Get OpenXR with OpenGL working on SteamVR ( GH-71708 ).

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Animation 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tokage greatly optimized the animation blend tree process, which should give a nice performance boost on complex animations ( GH-68593 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ). GH-68805 ). Jump to the Downloads section. specifically.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 98

GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

According to another message sent to staff and seen by GLHF, writers, engineers, artists, production, IT, and animation were also listed as being at risk of redundancy. Read more

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Dev Animation Animation Engine 120

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. Animation: Transition progress display in Animation State Machine Editor ( GH-71284 ). Animation: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

at full speed (with a first dev snapshot released last week!), 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 ).

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Render Shaders Bug Animation 86

PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s when I started researching some more “exotic” animals and came across the raccoon. The post Solo dev Diego Ras of Raccoo Venture “Everything starts with paper and pencil” appeared first on PreMortem Games. When I started the project I had in mind that the main character should be a cute mascot.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Plus, a smaller indie dev team should be able to handle the scope. Thats why we choose a stylised abstract art style, similar to what could be found in an animated kids show. We want it to be fun and engaging for the primary target group of 10/12 year olds and show Arabic and islamic history and culture in an authentic and mindful way.

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Educational Education Development Games 118

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details. GH-68870 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features. This decision allows us to better focus efforts of the Animation team on stabilizing other features. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Reset animation on playback stop ( GH-33733 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I like variety in my work (art, coding, animation, marketing); it keeps things interesting and I also love seeing my own progress over the weeks, months and years.” The post Solo dev Rohan Nowell of Doggy Don’t Care “Just start building and ideas will come” appeared first on PreMortem Games. And the biggest pitfalls?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). XR: Add partial support for Pico 4 ( GH-68023 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 98

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

The animation studio, founded in 2014 in Cape Town and currently employing ten people, made its first foray into game development in 2023 and hasn't shipped a commercial game yet. Studio Bolland on the other hand, represents the new wave. Read more

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! Jump to the Downloads section. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Intricate mechanics The dev team faced two major challenges when translating the physical act of climbing to gameplay mechanics: replicating the intricate mechanics of grip, support, weight, and motion, and ensuring user-friendliness. . It is great to see that it’s working out so far.” Release date for New Heights is July 2023.

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Raph Koster

MARCH 3, 2025

This also unlocked our third stretch goal, the Hyugon playable species that you see animating over here. We also have done sneak peeks of upcoming features, sessions with other devs on the team, and more. And sometimes you get a good result! Last night we hit the $500k mark on the Stars Reach Kickstarter. But that’s far from all.

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Playtesting Content Animation Animation 102

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

at full speed (with a first dev snapshot released yesterday!), Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). We released Godot 4.4 If you havent seen the 4.4 release page , its well worth a read!

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2024

Annual sports titles absolutely do not have the same scope as AAA games with multi-year dev cycles, but they do absolutely have significant breadth and depth of scope each year beyond "minor tweaks and roster changes". Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 3, 2024

a large number of animation features have been reworked since 4.0, so it's time to migrate your animations. In Godot 4.3,

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Motion/Performance capture usually happens fairly early during development, because animators need time to take the captured data and turn it into actual performances. Much of what animators do during production is this performance capture cleanup and modification/adjustment.

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Content Animation Animation Development 104

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The overall process of bug fixing in game dev is done in five steps. Usually it starts by observing some kind of unexpected behavior in the game - a move does too much or too little damage, the game crashes, the wrong animation plays, etc. Well go over each of these briefly.

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Bug Dev Games Animation 52

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it. The post Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development “Not as chaotic as Unity” appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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Dev Development Feature Prototyping 118

Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

At one point, the animation system pulled a very specific hard-coded string from the string table (the repository used to hold all of the pieces of text in the game for translating and such) and cast it to animation data (i.e. The animation programmer didn’t understand it either. it declared “Whatever it was, we don’t care.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

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Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, we probably don't want a fireball spell to generate a fireball specifically when the player presses the cast button - we want the character to perform a casting animation that ends with a specific pointing animation, and then we want the fireball to appear from the character's hand when the character points.

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