Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Help us continue our work: Make a Donation Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.NET build (marked as mono ) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.NET 8.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by James Dornan, the game was released on Steam in January 2025. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Last week, we released the first of our Release Candidate builds, a state suitable for production settings. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by chx games, the game was just released on Steam.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. Autodesk also offers 3ds Max, a similar 3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on Bluesky and his website. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Woah, another beta build already? If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. AWS for Games has published a reference architecture describing a Unity Build pipeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The illustration picture for this article comes from Book Bound , a cozy bookshop simulator game by Bit66 Games, which was recently released on Steam. Buildsystem: Android: Fix build with disable_3d ( GH-103523 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Most (if not all) technologies that utilize ECS do it at the core engine level, by serving as the base architecture and building everything else (physics, rendering, audio, etc.) Game logic.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

Game backend solutions empower game developers to save time and money while building reliable and engaging games. These solutions especially benefit those who are just starting their game development, as they provide the tech support and infrastructure needed to bring their gaming visions to life.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The cover illustration is from The Roottrees are Dead , a detective game where you piece together a family trees billion-dollar paper trail through the power of a dial-up modem! if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

.” This guide comes in three parts: What’s the core engine of a game? How do I come up with an idea for the core engine for my game? How do I turn the idea into a working game engine? What’s the core engine of a game? Carcassonne : The purpose is to build the best village.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The first thing that any new hire has to do is get the project synced to the latest safe build and get the game running. Without being able to run the game, we can't make or test any of the changes we will inevitably need to make. We'll ignore the administrative stuff and focus on the productivity onboarding.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 3, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.8 Released The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. This release adds several new features including.NET 8/ C#12 support, a new integrated UI building tool and much more. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 It brings lots of great […] The post Flax Engine 1.8

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Cocos

MARCH 15, 2023

Hi, First of all, thanks for the greate game engine Currently, I’m working on a project which is targeting someone uses this webapp via very low download speed network. However, it seems like this method only works on Previews and not works in a web-mobile version build. I recognized it’s not working by browser’s network log.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Estelle Makhoba, the founder of Tiny Baby Crown Games, introduced Kamo to the video games world. She’s been with me every step of the way as I try to build a career in this industry.” It was an 8-week course where she learned about game development using the Unity game engine.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

While this sub-category of gaming is still in its infancy compared to the industry as a whole and therefore has a much smaller market, it has some of the most ambitious ideas and principles driving each and every project. And one of the primary considerations is the game engine and the tools on which the game is built.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“why do you need a custom build of cocos?” Because this is the point being open source game engine. I like this question. Developer has access to develop new features that never made before such as full screen, aspect ratio fitter, 3d audio source and in my case, I wanna improve preview simulator.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.3 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 Released Read More The post Unreal Engine 5.3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

I was completely immersed in rewriting my game engine when I stumbled upon these captivating images. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. In conclusion, I'm glad I got distracted to build a PBR Renderer. I had rendered GOLD.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

This takes time and focus away from what really matters, the specific features that make their games’ online experience unique. Game developers want to get started quickly, while following best practices and building for scale, cost efficiency, and observability. You can extend these API’s with your custom backend features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Navigation: Fix avoidance calculation on NO_THREADS build (e.g. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above). You need to have dotnet CLI or MSBuild installed to use the Mono build. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

We had a first Release Candidate on December 15 , and after fixing one regression and backporting a few other fixes, it's time for a second RC build to validate the update. Navigation: Fix avoidance calculation on NO_THREADS build (e.g. Mono build (C# support + all the above). branch, so it's time to wrap up a new 3.5.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Godot, at its core, is and will always be (by design) a very general purpose game engine. This mean that the tools provided, while certainly capable, are still game neutral. The answer is “it depends”. So, are we not even close?

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

As a result, running with a Debug build of an application may result in less optimal GPU workloads, for instance. Even for a Release build, the driver background optimizations may be turned on and off dynamically from frame to frame. In this mode, the driver turns background optimizations on and off depending on internal heuristics.

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Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.

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Game Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

He dared to take on the likes of Apple and Google, and their appalling mobile games duopoly, and although he hasn’t exactly triumphed in the law courts, he’s been a serious thorn in their sides. Game engines existed before Unreal. None of Epic’s business pillars were fully born of his imagination.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Expose emulated *Unorm4x8 GLSL functions in non-Android builds ( GH-69521 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2023

While this ensures unique player experiences, it can also present game development and hosting complexities. The engineering team must support a broad range of game engines, from Unity to Unreal Engine, and even custom engines and platforms.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you don’t have time or patience to practise, there’re plenty of avenues online to get stuff needed to build games. This includes art, music & sound, programming assets such as character controllers and other resources that’ll help you with your games. You’d think I was talking rubbish, right?

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Compared to his contemporaries and successors, Barragán didn't make a lot of buildings nor design huge cities. He disagreed with Le Corbusier -- he believed homes were not "machines for living.") In the past I've written about video game brutalism. However, building these spiral stairs was a bit annoying.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). XR: Add partial support for Pico 4 ( GH-68023 ). This release is built from commit 0ff874291. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 installed in a standard location.NET 7.0 specifically.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you are planning to develop a mobile game, then it is crucial to understand that a successful game that attracts players and stands out in crowded app stores takes a lot of time, effort and dedication. Selecting the most suitable mobile game engine is one of the crucial decisions that must be taken.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They've been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). This release is built from commit 3c9bf4bc2. specifically.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. As USD already provides the functions needed for building pipelines, such as compositions, asset resolvers, file format plug-ins, and custom schemas, we adapted it to fit our pipeline.

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