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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Molyneux on media mistakes, and creativity

Game Daily

Image credit: DanielAlexanderSmith / Wikipedia For decades, Peter Molyneux was a regular fixture on the game media outlet interview circuit, his face gracing the cover of magazines or website feature splashes. In 2015, he declared that he would no longer give interviews, and has largely retreated from his previous high media profile.

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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

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Retopology is an essential step in creating 3D models for animation, games, and other interactive media. Texture baking Texture baking allows you to generate 2D texture maps from a 3D model's high polygon count and is a technique used particularly in video games.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

This made it a great fit for cartoons with an adorable style and simple geometry exemplified in Western cartoon media with The Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony. the plot around Tower of Sweet Chaos inspired a lot of discussion on social media). Good Social media strategy Cookie Run: Kingdom has a good social media strategy.

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Sweat and Serendipity – How I Got Into the Board Game Business

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I created both for its own sake and out of a half-baked fantasy that it would make me independently wealthy. Thankfully, I had a very strong social media presence on Twitter and Instagram as well as a strong presence in some Twitch communities. In truth, that had much more to do with my unrealistic expectations and plain old naivete.

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Birth of Byways: A Peek Into My Early Board Game Development Process

Brand Game Development

These emotions have been baked into Highways & Byways. You’re really going to enjoy it when I start posting it on social media! You’re steeped in nostalgia as drift in and out of motels that were built in the Golden Age of Travel in the 1970s and not renovated since. Color TV!).

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

February As part of our social media expansion, we also created an official Godot Engine account on the streaming platform Twitch. Build relationships, play minigames, use social media, and most importantly: solve the mystery at hand. KinitoPET Desktop pets have risen to new popularity in 2024.