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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

We have reached the first beta release for the 4.4 in around a month, but as usual, this timeline will depend on how quickly we are able to fix the outstanding bugs and what new bugs are identified in the beta process. New in Beta 1! Since this is brand new in Beta 1, please test it carefully and report any issues.

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The Mobile Games Moving Away From Gacha

Game Refinery

Mobile games and gacha mechanics have been closely aligned for a significant time. Regardless of the genre, most gamers playing titles on a mobile device will inevitably encounter gacha mechanics in some shape or form, whether that’s a box gacha, sugoroku gacha, timed gacha, or one of many others.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

As such, you can expect this to be our final beta release of the 4.4 beta 1 , which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 3 and beta 4. This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 3 snapshot , which are largely regression fixes. beta3 snapshot.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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New social media app Dusk plans to "reimagine social multiplayer gaming for the mobile generation"

GamesIndustry.biz

The app – which is currently available in beta form – already boasts 50 games of various genres, and its users have clocked up "over 50m minutes" of in-app voice chats so far.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. 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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