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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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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

Beta 52
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Molyneux on media mistakes, and creativity

Game Daily

The badly botched launches of Kickstarter game Godus, and mobile game Curiosity further damaged his reputation. He got his start in game development when Commodore approached him to create a piece of software, believing his company to be a software house and not, in fact, a baked bean distributor.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

Beta 52
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.2.4

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. before focusing on rendering optimization for mobile Vulkan in the 4.0