Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2024

Some cut content never goes beyond existence in documents, let alone a prototype. Most gets a few iterations on a prototype before the plug gets pulled, often because we can't find the fun in the idea within the time we've allotted to it. Generally, we leave stuff there unless there's a good reason to remove it.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Worlds with Generative AI New generative AI technologies on NVIDIA Omniverse enhance 3D asset creation in virtual environments. Offering a huge boost in AI performance over the prior generation, it is compatible with all NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and NX modules for prototyping edge AI products.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2018

He is collaborating with Yann Burrett and Ben Tristem on their upcoming Godot course on Udemy , and offered to share a tutorial on how to import 3D assets from Blender using Godot's "Better" Collada exporter. Importing 3D assets. So you want to import 3D assets into Godot? Let's do it! Copy Images. Optimize Keyframes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2019

Great 3d prototyping assets to help you develop games faster. A Free video tutorial series covering the new features in Godot 3.1 , for the official docs. Professional 3d character and modular level prototyping kit. A modular level-design kit to efficiently design and prototype 3d gameplay. new features tutorials.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

The OpenXR plugin for Godot now has an official release that can be found in the asset library. We had to go through a few iterations as we're now directly pulling the asset from the releases build by Githubs CI. Any feature that requires reading adjacent pixels requires a pass to be finished. Godot 4 OpenVR prototype plugin.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

To ensure compatibility, you should identify the features and tools essential for your chosen genre. The software should have features that match the goals of your project, regardless of how big or little your production is. Choose software with robust asset management tools to streamline the development process.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This includes making the sound effects and music, planning the levels, implementing the game mechanics, and producing the game’s assets. Prototyping Prototyping is not integral to the mobile game development process but has advantages. The team will also conduct routine game testing to find and address any bugs.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Simply input parameters like genre, target audience, and desired features, and Ludo AI will suggest potential game ideas. Dimensions: This platform focuses on AI-powered 3D asset creation. While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. Through prototyping, you can identify possible issues early. Teams collaborate to code and create the multiplayer game’s art assets, levels, and audio. Development This stage is where the actual game creation occurs.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

Among other features, it has a vast marketplace of either free or paid prebuilt art and code assets. Unity is a perfect tool for mobile game development because of its robust feature set and use cases. Wide range of templates and prefabs that enable quick prototyping. What features do Android video games have?

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s understand the array of features that create such next-level user experiences. The game is based on AMC’s popular television show and what made it such a great hit was the use of Unreal Engine to naturally develop exceptional replicas of assets from the show - such as the variety of weapons, characters, buildings, and environments.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Over time, a number of situations are highly likely to arise: Assets are OK, but gameplay sucks. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? Making a prototype.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 29, 2019

released and new plugins being uploaded to the asset library, an update on the state of things is long overdue. One of the more interesting projects to come out of this is Torch , an AR prototyping tool worth checking out. features Apple added in. With Godot 3.1 release, but we are planning improvements for 3.2.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Standardization process: Standardizing new schemas involves prototyping, formalization, internal reviews, whitepaper publication, and broad industry review, leading to adoption as a USD standard. Custom schemas in USD open up numerous pathways for crafting more complex virtual worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. update to the 3.2

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Following the shuttering of “Paragon,” Epic Games released all “Paragon’s” assets for free use in Unreal Engine. We’re aiming to continue this momentum and have a bunch of big new features and game modes in the works.” This is the largest that our population has ever been, and it’s still growing, which is incredibly exciting.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Each engine has its specific set of features and, therefore, can perform a specific set of tasks. Due to its extensive asset store, versatility, and a multitude of tutorials and online courses, Unity has become the most popular 2D and 3D development platform in the world. But is there an ultimate winner?

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This article is the third in a series that features the most up-to-date best practices and recommendations focusing on automation , measurement , creative and conversion schema optimization, which will help you to boost the performance of your app install campaigns. Unearthing the creatives that drive meaningful results begins with testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2021

along with keeping you hyped with some of the new features planned or in the work. One of the emergent feature of Godot that users have discovered and really started to like is its ability to run on a headless Linux machine and act as game server. See other articles in this Godot 4.0 On servers, RSETs and state updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Paweł and I are teaching classes on simulations and game dev that are heavily based on Godot Engine mostly due to Godot being perfect for fast prototyping. When you want to create a new feature for your game it might just take a few hours to see it will work. Which features would you like to see in future versions of Godot?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Even if we did not manage to finish the tutorial in two hours, all participants left with a serious playable prototype, with a moving player and enemies. It covers some of Godot 3's new features and talks about what sets Godot apart from other engines : its design principles and its health as an open source project.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. now and read on to learn more about its history , our support plans and the many new features in this update. Download Godot 3.2 March 2019).

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

This article will discuss the new feature of Cocos Creator, Custom Render Pipeline(CRP), and demonstrate how to apply the custom render pipeline already written in Cocos Cyberpunk to your own project. The most important feature here is the Custom Render Pipeline, CRP. Ok, without further ado, let’s get started.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Those experiences were great but they all fell a bit short in terms of ease of use or features or productivity. I needed something to speed up my workflow and make it less cumbersome to quickly prototype ideas. It has all the features I need for the games I want to make. Modifying assets is seamless. Yes, absolutely.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

Toward that end, I will remove the old SoloHeroSystem and then add features to aid in constructing a full hero party. Even in our prototype it will already be useful to make sure the heroes populate on the board in a consistent pattern. Get(this); } set { IPartyOrderSystem.Resolve().Set(this, Give it a try!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

I enjoy contributing to new features and bringing new possibilities to the broader community. We hope that this makes our lives better with asset pipelines for 3D. For example, creating a blockout or prototyping within Godot, then exporting as glTF to further edit in Blender, and finally bringing the geometry back into Godot.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

And if you're making the typical aspirational photorealistic action game, you'll probably want UE's gameplay architecture and free photoscan assets too. But if you want high-end then UE5 Nanite / Lumen is light years beyond Unity HDRP anyway? Most recently, respected developer Ethan Lee has weighed in.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

However, the way that Unity has developed Cinemachine makes it streamlined, with a quick learning curve, and robust features that make it worth the investment. Importing assets is not just accurate, it is quick. While subsequent versions of Unity are incorporating more artist-friendly features, it is still, at its heart, a game engine.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

Opening level.ts , we can see that the message is listened for in its init function: Msg.on('level_do', this.do.bind(this)); The prototype of the do function in level.ts Opening level.ts , we can see that the message is listened for in its init function: Msg.on('level_do', this.do.bind(this)); The prototype of the do function in level.ts

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

We don't aim to compare them by functionality, because each platform prioritizes certain features or may complement each other. Script summary feature will not let you lose any key information. Our magic Scheduling feature is not revolutionary but presents a solid and stable performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This work involved adding support for the FBX 3D asset exchange format to Godot. The first version of our FBX importer was added in Godot 3.2 , and relied on the Open Asset Importer library ( Assimp ). Maya is one of the most used 3D assets creation tools in the game industry, and IMVU needed good support for its FBX files.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

After graduating (around summer 2020), I decided to search for a game engine that was easier to use and still just as feature rich. Not because it's necessarily harder to program or harder to make assets for, but it's much, much harder to debug. The first prototype of FNFVR was made in around two weeks if I remember correctly.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I probably left them in by mistake from one of my previous prototype passes. Combatant Assets As part of helping illustrate how you could use physics to select targeted GameObjects, I decided I would put the Warrior and Rat prefabs in the "Hero" Layer. Go ahead and open the script and delete them.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

It is great for Unity beginners, or for small jams / prototypes with light dialogue requirements. Dialogue System is an all-in-one node-based visual editor in Unity asset with ready-made samples for Mass Effect / Skyrim style dialogues. try Fungus have money to spare + lots of other Unity assets you need to hook into?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. Restricting this feature to dedicated GPUs is not suitable as it leaves our user base in a lurch. Okay, how about we restrict this to dedicated GPUs only?

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

A single shot or asset will often travel through numerous artists and multiple departments before being finalized. As an asset takes shape, it must be presented in a turntable so its look can be properly inspected and approved or given notes by relevant supervisors or clients. So, where do you fit into the production pipeline?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. The PSVR2 includes features such as gaze-based tracking and advanced haptics, as well as increased graphical fidelity.

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