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Devcom Speaker Survey 2025: Majority of respondents claim traditional platform exclusives will go extinct

Game Developer

Others suggested those tools should only be deployed in areas where they work best, with 32 percent of respondents claiming they could help streamline code and production efforts. Discussing the value of AI tools in production, 33 percent of respondents said they would prefer to see "minimal" uptake.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. 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. This was added by Macksaur in GH-96290.

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Certification QA for Console Games: Console Compliance Testing Without Delays 

iXie gaming

How to Bake Certification into QA Cycles Certification isn’t something you “tack on” post-feature-freeze. Impact : Last-minute code rewrites, additional QA cycles, and missed release windows. Hold Weekly QA-Dev-Pub Syncs Especially near code freeze, make sure everyone stays aligned on blockers and timelines.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

The utilization of Baked Lighting for static region precomputation results in enhanced runtime performance. Using the Profiler allows developers to detect memory-intensive code sections which they should optimize. The practice of object pooling allows for repeated object use instead of continuous allocation and deallocation.

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Key Algorithmic Tricks for Match 3 Game Development

Logic Simplified

Underneath all those colourful tiles is a stack of code that needs to pull serious weight - fast match checking, smooth tile drops, and a difficulty curve that keeps people playing “just one more level”. Your code needs to sweep the board again and again until the dust settles - ideally, fast enough that the player never feels the lag.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

By the end of the campaign, almost 4,000 cuddly coding companions were headed towards new homes. To those of you who contribute to the engine by code, donations, or growing the community through content creation. In a collaboration with Makeship, we finally proved our infamous logos worth.

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Exploring How Coding Concepts Can Be Applied to Real-Life Situations

Real Programming

Likewise, learning how to write code can help kids in several unexpected ways. Let’s check out some ways that content from our coding classes can be applied in real-life situations. In other words, parents want their children to have healthy habits of mind which learning to code promotes.