Game Developer

JANUARY 29, 2024

WB wants to further embrace the live-service game model, but Suicide Squad's launch bugs are putting a wrench in those plans.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where receiving WebSocket messages on Android when switching to the background or covered by other activities caused JNI crashes.

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Indie DB

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Taking a look at player experience and overall scope of the game.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Catching 80% of their bugs. One of the main reasons that Splitting Point integrated GameAnalytics was because of our bug-tracking capabilities through our error reporting dashboard. They would be updating their game every week, and finish the changes two hours before the deadline. “We Dive into your own games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2025

The project is Open Source (MIT license) and maintained by W4 Games with sponsorship from Meta. The Godot editor can be configured to launch the Meta XR Simulator when you run your game, and the Godot Meta Toolkit includes a tool to help you with that configuration! Contributions from the community are welcome! and later only.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

There’s the understandable dismay about people losing their jobs, which I, too, believe is detrimental to the long-term health of the video games industry. Rather than taking on temp workers and running them ragged, game makers now absorb higher costs by letting go of regular employees and argue that the cost of development has gone up.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’re currently developing a mini open world local co-op called Bugging Humans. The game could involve many innovations, unless we stuff it up by avoiding player discomfort. This means best practices, for instance in level design, have to be adapted. It also means blind and low-vision players can play with sighted players.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

rc1 snapshot last week, we decided to make a second release candidate as a few more critical bugs had fixes available to backport. The illustration picture for this article comes from Haulin Oats , a board game about truck driving, the US highways, and oatmeal (?!), See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 9, 2018

It's kind of the whole point of the game (and before the game). It only bugs me when people call the ending lazy. Gameinformer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards. This homage to older adventure games pokes fun at the genre as well as embraces it. It was very purposeful and anything but lazy.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 8, 2018

It’s kind of the whole point of the game (and before the game). It only bugs me when people call the ending lazy. Gameinformer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards Best Ending Thimbleweed Park This homage to older adventure games pokes fun at the genre as well as embraces it.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art. The sheer confidence of steering clear of the beaten track and creating something truly original, comes from experience gained outside the world of video game development. This gave the studio a bit of an outsider perspective.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Developed by Nachosama Games , the game was recently released on Steam. Highlights Mute Game toggle Previously, if a developer wished to mute the audio while testing in the editor, they had to either use the operating systems builtin tools for sound or outright pause/close their work. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity. Ascent of Ashes is inspired by other games besides RimWorld as well.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Developed by CaveLiquid ( Bluesky , website ), the game was just released on Steam. Editor: Fix Embedded Game over expanded bottom panel, by resetting expanded bottom panel on Play ( GH-102978 ). Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 4, 2024

Wildermyth developer Worldwalker Games will be on a hiatus for the foreseeable future. The team will continue supporting Wildermyth with bug fixes, and the console port is still on the cards.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on Bluesky and his website. 3D: Add changeable freelook speed in Game Window ( GH-102704 ). Editor: Fix lag when resizing Floating Game Window ( GH-102618 ). Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

As always: with new features comes new bugs (probably), so the sooner we can get feedback and bug reports in, the better. The cover illustration is from Fortune Avenue , a capitalism simulator where you shrewdly extort and outmaneuver your friends in a chaotic, board-game environment. It is developed by Binogure Studio.

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Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Hey everyone, It has been two years since I began rewriting my game engine, and while development has been slow, it has been steady. For those who are unaware, the Untold Engine is a 3D game engine designed for macOS and iOS devices, which I started developing in 2013. What is the Untold Engine? What’s next?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

This release includes fixes to security vulnerabilities in the mbedTLS third-party library, so we strongly recommend updating for any game using networking functionality. Bug reports As a tester, we encourage you to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. See below for a list of the most relevant changes.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 2, 2021

Judith was the lead tester on Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2 as well as a vast number of other Lucasfilm games. She was the one who taught me the importance of testers and how they are a critical gear in the machinery that makes up making a game. D" bugs were design bugs. Testers aren't just unit tests in human form.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 1, 2021

Judith was the lead tester on Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2 as well as a vast number of other Lucasfilm games. She was the one who taught me the importance of testers and how they are a critical gear in the machinery that makes up making a game. “D” bugs were design bugs. It goes on for 5 pages.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Developed by James Dornan, the game was released on Steam in January 2025. Editor: Replace error to info messages for embedded game ( GH-103339 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs. Bug reports As a tester, we encourage you to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The cover illustration is from Stray Path , a roguelike card game where optimization is key to unraveling the mystery of this stray world. Developed by chx games, the game was just released on Steam. Editor: Fix Embedded Game window wrong first startup location and size ( GH-103105 ). in the previous 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

The illustration picture for this article comes from Book Bound , a cozy bookshop simulator game by Bit66 Games, which was recently released on Steam. You can follow the developer on Bluesky , and wishlist their other upcoming game Bots & Mods. See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Porting fixes to Embedded/Floating Window mode The Embedded/Floating game window option added in 4.4 something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. have a look at the highlights for 4.4

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Game Industry News

MARCH 5, 2024

Hey all, I’m back with an important topic for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. Given how many titles ship now with game breaking bugs, that seems to be a really poor way of handling the concerns of players. That’s it for this Video Game Tuesday! It’s all about forums.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 2, 2025

That is, if the GodotSharp package targets net7.0 , your game project needs to target net7.0 Please, make sure to test the pre-releases and let us know if you find some bugs so we can fix them before the stable release. Keep in mind pre-releases are still a work-in-progress so there may be bugs. What took so long?

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 2, 2024

Production makes the final call on bug prioritization, but they take the advisement of the other departments under consideration while making those choices. You are correct that the bugs that stop people from working are the top priority. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

CD Projekt has spent over $120 million on Cyberpunk 2077 since launch, accounting for updates and bug fixes and the development and marketing of its Phantom Liberty DLC. update, which added a variety of improvements such as revamped game systems and UI.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest breakout hits of 2023 was the haunting fishing adventure Dredge by New Zealand-based indie developer Black Salt Games. Much to the delight (and surprise) of the four-person crew, their debut game sold 100.000 copies in the first 24 hours after launch, smashing the goal for the whole year.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 25, 2024

Over the past 3 months, I've reworked and polished most of the game, fixed critical bugs, replaced some textures, improved gameplay, improved sounds, and added a lot of new content.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Multiplayer games are becoming more complex every single day – but so is the challenge of maintaining a stable, high-performance environment. After all, that small amount of time is all it takes to win or lose a game! Critical Hidden Challenges in Scaling Multiplayer Games What kind of troubles should you watch out for?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

In early 2021, Cukia Kimani , co-founder of South Africa’s renowned studio Nyamakop , and a close-knit circle of four friends embarked on an extraordinary challenge that involved making 12 games in 12 months. He recalls booting it up and as soon as he saw the magic within, asking his mum if people create games for a living.

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Half Geek

AUGUST 3, 2022

It was updated often during the first year, fixing bugs, adding features players requested. Google Android 9 & 10 in particular, broke code back compatibility, the game would crash, a pretty major flaw. As expected, to update the game, I am forced to use an ever newer SDK & API. The last major update was in 2019.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

On his company Twitter account Next Game Level , he introduces himself with a great sense of humor. Game developer from Italy! Although his first game Remote Life was quite successful and his next game Crude already amassed thousands of wishlists on Steam, Malagrino admits to sometimes struggle with motivation.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I find it to be a bug since it should work on Editor Preview. console.log appears but the game framerate remains at 60. protected onLoad(): void { game.frameRate = 30 console.log("ON LOAD CALLED!!") } This code doesn’t work on Editor preview but somehow works on Browser preview. Will there be a fix for this?

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