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D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

Catnip Games

MARCH 19, 2022

I made a “master sheet” with all the tiles to keep things organized. I implemented a new material system for tiles. In addition to the visible texture, each tile had a lower resolution bitmap which defined the material at a given spot. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier.

Tile

Tile Polygon Baking Texture

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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.

Puzzle

Puzzle Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. On the other hand, parallelizing the traditional data compression algorithms has been challenging, due to fundamental serial assumptions “baked” into their design.

Tile

Tile Data Content Games

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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. IPv6 support.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Level editor allowing players to create their own tracks is one of the main features. Every part must be set accordingly to the tiles, that size is 30x30x10. A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys.

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Art Mesh Prop Racing

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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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Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold.

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Beta Dev Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0,

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? One good reason is to know your inheritance, to reexamine it, to look for ideas which were baked into the very earliest version of the game and see if changing them could transform the experience. Every Twitch stream, you’ll always see a “is this the new Civ?”

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics

The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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Tile Games Point and Click Art

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D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Little Racer – 3D Art

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

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