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Comprehensive Guide to Game QA: Ensuring Quality from Alpha to Release

iXie gaming

JULY 4, 2025

At this stage, testers focus on: Core gameplay mechanics UI/UX feedback loops System-level stability Blocking bugs and crash diagnostics The goal is to ensure that fundamental gameplay functions work before layering in content or polishing visuals. UX issues don’t always show up as crash reports or error logs.

Alpha

Alpha Quality Assurance Bug UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. GH-94783 ) Change NavigationMesh to also parse collision shapes by default. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). HTML5: PWA, Godot/JavaScript interface, AudioWorklet. Dynamic BVH for Godot Physics 2D.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Physics: Many fixes to one-way collisions. Fixes to KinematicBody collisions. Cylinder collision shape for GodotPhysics. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Coding tools. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Coding tools. Visual Shaders overhaul. Graphics/Rendering improvements.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Note: Breaks compatibility for users of this plugin, but it's easy to adapt your code. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

when running in the editor, or exporting a debug build) will properly handle such situations and, when using the debugger, provide a clear error message so that the user code can be adapted to prevent the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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Comprehensive Guide to Game QA: Ensuring Quality from Alpha to Release

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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