Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. build templates. build templates. Fixed Mat4.getRotation getRotation issue.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO! Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This approach enables our games to efficiently eliminate unseen static objects during rendering, reducing the rendering load and enhancing game performance. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The essence of offline culling is: pre-baking scene visibility and quickly culling unseen models during rendering.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Game studios today face a growing challenge: delivering visually compelling, platform-agnostic gameplay without sacrificing responsiveness or stretching production timelines. Unity, once synonymous with indie development, now stands as a serious contender for console-quality game builds. Its the foundation.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. stable: Android: Remove -fno-integrated-as , it can break arm64v8 build ( GH-48851 ). HTML5: Fix GDNative build with Emscripten 2.0.19+ ( GH-48831 ). API documentation updates.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Game Genre. An addictive, fast-paced and time management cooking gaming app that keeps entertained for hours. An addictive, fast-paced and time management cooking gaming app that keeps entertained for hours. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. Entertainment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. He was immediately drawn to the team’s ambition to create a game that could provide the same exhilarating experiences as larger games, but with the capacity to run on low-end hardware.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Mebratu: Ultimately, I wanted to explore the potential future of real-time lighting for the next generation of games and real-time graphics. Most current and upcoming games still need to rely on a prebaked global illumination system to some extent. This enabled me to focus on the aesthetics and not worry about technical limitations.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. In the previous lesson, we added some UI to our game for the first time while creating this main menu of sorts.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Unreal Engine RTXGI plugin has been updated, making it easy to add the latest version of this global illumination SDK (1.1.40) to your game. will shorten your development cycles and help make your games look even more stunning. To get started adding NVIDIA Reflex to your game, check out our easy step by step integration guide.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. And this is just a first beta, there's more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.102.

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

An updated build of NVIDIA RTX UE4.25 NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 NVIDIA DLSS is a deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games. Enjoy great scaling across all RTX GPUs and resolutions, and the new ultra performance mode for 8K gaming. Both branches can be found here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha builds. Core: Remove argument name strings from release builds ( GH-59932 ). Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). Jump to the Downloads section. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. The only big change is that the classical build for macOS is now a universal binary, with both x86_64 and arm64 architectures included (to support the new ARM-based Apple M1 chip natively).

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. With my mentors’ help, I eventually resolved all of these issues and got going with building out the set properly. Building out the space station in Unreal Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! Moreover, there have been many fixes to features introduced in previous betas, so make sure to test this build and ensure that everything works as you'd want it. Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Watch the Releases page for upcoming testing builds of the Git plugin to use with 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds (new in 3.2.4 And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ). Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In particular, this build adds optional GDNative support to the HTML5 target , on top of the pre-existing optional multithreading support. Note: Threads enabled and GDNative enabled templates are only available for standard builds for now, as there are other issues to solve to make them work with Mono. Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

So here's a first Release Candidate to get broader testing of everything that has been iterated upon in the past 6 beta builds. Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only classical build for now). WebXR support for VR games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games. Tune in to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast where Laura co-hosts the notorious This Week in Games (TWIG) segment and make sure to read Laura’s previous analysis: Royal Match - The New King from Turkey?

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Game supports fixed step updates ● Support for Taobao Mini Games ● [XR] Added HEADTRACKING & PASSTHROUGH to XR build template ● [XR] Support for EYE RENDER END callback Fixes ● Fixed frame rate settings issue for high-refresh devices on the Web and optimized the stability of FPS using RAF.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And that's just as well, since a lot of work continues to be done every day to fix issues in the master branch and improve usability, and Juan even took the time to sneak in a couple past-deadline but very requested features, like a lightmapper for static light baking (to provide an alternative to the real-time but resource-heavy GIProbe).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects.

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