Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some big changes in this beta: Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). GDScript: Loads of follow-up improvements to recent fixes in beta 5 and 6. C#: Tons of improvements!

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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. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 25, 2023

Another beta build for Godot 3.6, implementing important bug fixes and some new features for existing games in production.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we'll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What's new.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 9, 2023

Beta Released Three months after the release of Godot 4 yesterday the first beta of Godot 4.1 There are a combination of refinements to the Godot 4 release, your usual bug fixes and improvements as well as some exciting new features. New Features Include: This release contains dozens of other … Godot 4.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Add support for Unicode identifiers in GDScript and Expression ( GH-71676 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 13, 2024

This beta represents feature freeze for 3.6. We will now concentrate on bug fixing until we reach stable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2023

It's time to start testing the next feature release of Godot 3, packed with over 500 fixes and enhancements which don't require any compatibility breaking changes!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What’s new.

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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. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

To achieve this, we need to shift the focus from implementing new and exciting features towards stabilizing the existing functionality and fixing bugs. The road to Beta 1. With that in mind, effective August 3rd we're entering a feature freeze stage, and no changes to the roadmap for Godot 4.0 Beta phase considerations.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What’s new.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 13, 2024

Anecdotally, we also heard that by day two it had already earned enough to recoup the casting costs of its star-studded live action trailer, which featured Chris Hemsworth, Christina Ricci, Ken Jeong and more. The game generated $1.1

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iXie gaming

MARCH 24, 2024

Beta testing is a critical game quality assurance (QA) process. You can think of beta testing as a pre-release measure to identify performance and gameplay issues before the actual launch. You can think of beta testing as a pre-release measure to identify performance and gameplay issues before the actual launch.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2023

dev snapshot before we enter the beta phase, and it's absolutely feature-packed!

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Game From Scratch

MAY 3, 2023

GameFromScratch.com GameMaker 2023 Development Roadmap GameMaker Studio just announced their 2023 development roadmap (learn more about GameMaker here).

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iXie gaming

JULY 12, 2024

Running an effective closed beta test is crucial to ensuring smooth and user-friendly game releases. This article explores key strategies for executing a successful closed beta test to optimize your game’s quality. What is Closed Beta Testing? Closed beta testing comes after alpha testing. The outcome?

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Game From Scratch

MAY 17, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GameMaker in 2024 GameMaker just outlined new features coming to the seminal game engine GameMaker in 2024 and there are some pretty massive changes on the horizon. Highlight new features coming to GameMaker include: New Code Editor This is actually already available in the GameMaker beta (check it out in action here).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

beta 1 two weeks ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. So here's beta 2! This beta 2 is not only bugfixes though! We released Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Moreover, there have been many fixes to features introduced in previous betas, so make sure to test this build and ensure that everything works as you'd want it. Highlights.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 9, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GameMaker Gets a New Code Editor In the just released GameMaker Beta 2024.400 a major new feature is the addition of Code Editor 2.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Additionally, beta 4 adds support for MP3 loading and playback ! and included in this beta are: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. beta 4). Highlights. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

release is going to be packed with many new features. With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New CPU lightmapper (new in beta 6). beta 6).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 20, 2023

Beta 12 has released, and that means it’s once again time to examine player-submitted stats from the previous major release! Overview The data we’re examining spans the Beta 11~11.2 Wins Beta 11 added new toys and mechanics, but also some significant new challenges (Heavies! in Beta 10, but not quite up to the 5.7%

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see

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