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

Looking for stunning 3D product renders for your ecommerce website? This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. Get 20-min free consultation on how Unreal can change your game idea.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 25, 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 Cornerpond , a fishing game that takes place entirely in the corner of your desktop. You can get the game on Steam and follow the developer on Twitter. It is developed by foolsroom.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 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 Haulin Oats , a board game about truck driving, the US highways, and oatmeal (?!), Rendering: Vulkan: Disable layers in editor deemed buggy by RenderDoc ( GH-104154 ).

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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. Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 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 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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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.” You can just build.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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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. Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). beta3 snapshot.

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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: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Unreal Engine Here’s an overview of these two dynamic mechanisms that will help you understand what they are, how they work, and the merits they offer to Android programmers: Unity It is a popular game engine renowned for its cross-platform compatibility and intuitive user interface that supports both 2D & 3D game development.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

There are a few known regressions which we’ll aim to address in a later build ( GH-71891 , GH-71913 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Linux: Include headers for dynamically loaded libraries to simplify build dependencies ( GH-71263 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. This may change in the future, though.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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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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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. In its update, 2022.2.11, HDRP/Nature/SpeedTree8.shadergraph

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

During the AMA, the editors offered some valuable guidance and tips on how to successfully integrate real-time rendering. Are there some rules of thumb one should follow when adding ray tracing (RT) applications like translucency, reflections, shadows, GI, or diffuse illumination to games? This works today.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 ("Compatibility") projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. Rendering: Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Godot uses plenty of data-oriented optimizations for physics, rendering, audio, etc. Game logic. Still (while, by far, not the majority) some types of games will see a performance benefit when using ECS in the game logic side.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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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. Continue to render frames until wantMoreFrames is returned as false.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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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 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

we introduced the ability to compile the engine with double precision floats instead so that all these calculations happen with much higher precision. Let’s switch to a doubles build and see what happens to our scene. In Godot 4.0 Despite all our calculations using fancy double-precision floats, this looks the exact same.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Buildsystem: Fix feature build profile being parsed too late (and rename the option to build_profile ) ( GH-71508 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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