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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

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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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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. If done well.

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Top gamification examples in mobile apps

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While it’s predominantly a VR app , the developers have also created a mobile app version, so users can track their progress and plan their workouts. Reward your users for building good habits and returning to your app daily. Any fitness or health apps are perfect here. Take FitXR as an example. Chuck in streaks.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile).

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

April Towards the end of 2023 we announced a collaboration with Google and The Forge to improve the performance of our Vulkan mobile backend. Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations. Strategize with animals and nature in mind!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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