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Supercell's Record Year: Crushing It, But At What Cost?

Deconstructor of Fun

Watch the short clip below from our weekly podcast show where we break down the wins, risks, and big unanswered questions behind Supercells biggest year yet. Supercell CEO was asked about this in the local Finnish podcast and he replied that Supercell is a fully autonomous company that pays all it taxes to Finland and hosts its data here.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss. Porting: Implement get_length() for pipes ( GH-102365 ).

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How do developers handle the removal of softlocking (I.E. the player places themselves in an inescapable position where they cannot progress in the game or backtrack to escape their situation)? Is the removal of softlocks treated the same way as glitches for developers or are they treated differently?

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invalid asset data). #2: Maybe thats because the world geometry has put them into a perpetually-falling state so they dont have any control, or because theyve somehow clipped into a part of the level that should not be accessible. This means that theyll be trapped in the level somewhere and be unable to move.

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Where Do Geogames Go After Niantic’s $3.5B Exit

Deconstructor of Fun

Posting spontaneous, often chaotic clips isn’t just a trend – it’s a new kind of performance. Fusing all this data together makes multiplayer gaming in physical spaces possible for the first time with mobile devices alone, and it creates an experience that’s as dynamic and fast as online multiplayer shooters. Apps like TikTok, BeReal.,

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Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Fix label clipping when ascent/descent are fractional ( GH-103192 ). Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss. Export: Fix cross-platform configuration of rendering driver settings (narrower approach) ( GH-103197 ).

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Modulate scales ToxMod AI voice chat moderation tool with AWS

AWS Games

ToxMod records every problematic chat instance and generates a transcript, analysis, and audio clip of it, so if a banned community member files an appeal, there’s a record of the offense on file. To minimize overhead, it batches audio clips to create queues for processing.

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Programmatically change animationClip properties at runtime

Cocos

I don’t think animation clip data is modifiable in runtime, but you can try to use Animation Frame Event to trigger your custom script, so that you can control any property during the animation process.