Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With a prebaked lighting setup, you can incorporate thousands of baked lights without impacting performance, except for the bake time. There’s a significant concern regarding artistic freedom when working with a fully dynamic GI system.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing. Toggle ray tracing on and off between reflections, shadows and translucency to see the impact these features have on NVIDIA’s Attic demo and what they could bring to your project.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’m not ready to say what exactly is left to make all the remastered maps and models work really well with the NVIDIA RTX renderer at this time, but I guess there’s some content work to be done, such as authoring PBR materials. Do you believe that path tracing will ultimately be the standard for lighting and rendering in games? Use RTX Remix!

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

And NVIDIA Reflex is now a standard feature in Unreal Engine 4.27. UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Details for each product are below. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed not being able to get input content in time for an input box on Android. EDITOR Features ● Support for manually inputting iOS developer accounts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Before we move on to the next light actor, let us quickly explain one really nice feature Directional light has. Well, Unreal Engine has 2 different lighting methods: baked (static) lighting and dynamic lighting. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Rather than having just three cumulative stages, Bake-Off has a full-blown reward path with clear thresholds players must reach to unlock various items.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. has also been released, which includes all of the new features listed. NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 The new NVIDIA UE4.26 An updated build of NVIDIA RTX UE4.25

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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. We are are approaching a point where artists can change jobs seamlessly across all industries and the only thing that matters is the type of content we want to work with. Scott Knapp. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds. It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. The bulk of a game’s content package is made up of resources that naturally target the GPU: textures, materials, and geometry data.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). We released Godot 3.5 So this 3.5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. This makes sense; in context, why change a formula that works if you don’t need to?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Game developers looking to push the boundaries of what is possible in their games will find that Unreal Engine 5 offers a suite of powerful tools and features to help them achieve their vision. Features The Unreal Engine, which was written in C++, is highly portable and supports a variety of systems.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). We released Godot 3.5 So this 3.5.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

Waiting for Vulkan, waiting for WebAssembly, waiting for C#, waiting for advanced 3D editor features. It won't just happen that hundreds of lines of class descriptions are written by the core devs; their time is much better spent developing the great features we are all so fond of waiting for. waiting for Godot! Current status.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTX Direct Illumination lets artists add millions of dynamic lights to game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints, in real time.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Fink shared that the team plans to host open development talks every Saturday on Twitch, where they would discuss new features and gain valuable player input. “We go back and forth with our community until we find a feature that they would like, and we would like, so we have the perfect middle ground of what we want to do.”

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

Our most important storytelling tool is not the written word: We use the game’s feature set to tell its story. We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. That’s why we have to understand the feature set. How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? Organization.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. It combines strategy with smaller tasks, features and rewards to keep you engaged.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Next, Nick created two variants for all four of the vendor signs that will be featured in the Nasahara Ruins level, then finished up a couple pieces for the Clocktower Park - an area within Nasahara that, as its name suggests, serves as a cheeky little homage to the studio name.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0. GPU particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it. This wonderful feature needs to be included in Godot!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

is that it's not officially supported by Autodesk software, which many use for content creation in the game industry. We have already added proper support for complex features like Segment Scale Compensation, which e.g. Unity currently does not support directly into the engine. But a caveat of glTF 2.0 Research & development.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

again I've just heard that it's possible for Aleksis to escape if this is a real feature, I guess it would feel really bad if his escape kept ruining the end of a golden loop run the weapon jamming stuff is to make Far Cry 2 nerds happy but it never really comes up COMBAT DESIGN Fast paced modern shooter feel. Loadout is 3 guns.

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