Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It’s also beneficial to create multiple LOD versions of assets, allowing the game engine to choose the appropriate version based on the device’s capabilities. Techniques like pre-computed lighting and baked animations can also reduce the computational load.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New audio engine. GPU particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Throughout the years, the team diversified their skillset, handling everything from art to sounds, most of which were purchased online for licensing. Their journey is a poignant reminder that game development can be both an art form and a journey of continuous learning and growth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

There are many ways to move forward when you have the best in class match-3 switcher engine in the market. Instead of one upping the engine they built, they are looking to expand vertically by redefining competitive social. And while still too early to truly compare, the soft launch RPD data for Royal Kingdom is promising.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. Concept Art. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls. and they're not wrong.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. Lets break down the seven critical phases of the game art pipeline and explore how studios bring stunning, optimized visuals to life.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. x no longer works in this 3.5

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Baked Lighting. Tips for Aspiring Game Artists Whether you’re new to game art or have years of experience, mastering lighting can greatly enhance your creativity and storytelling. Plan for lighting early, from concept art to level design. Look to photography, film, and art for inspiration. Voxel Cone Tracing.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. It’s because the original version was created on Unity’s old engine. And building it on Unity’s new engine means they will be able to continue releasing updates and fixing bugs – something they were blocked from doing for a while.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Once considered a thriving mecca for Anagativan art and entertainment, the Nisargan city of Nasahara was set ablaze during the Great Kota Rebellion, forcing its frightened denizens to flee the city they call home in search of safety and solace. link] Concept Art.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

What does the Art Team need to know about this quest or level? What does the casting agency or sound engineer need to know about this recording session? What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? Localization.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

SYKOMANA CRYSTAL: The Sykomanans are masters in matters of the mind - gifted in the mental arts of both telepathy and telekinesis. Bianca manually did the retopology for the nymph, unwrapped and laid out the maps, baked the details, and started to spend time learning more about texturing in Substance Painter. Concept Art.

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