Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For brand new games, the best we usually do is in-game comments and maybe some auto-documentation because we're writing a lot of new code as we go and time spent documenting is time not spent writing more code. It really depends on the project. For established franchises and lifestyle games (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2020

Today I'm announcing two new extensions for other editors: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The two extensions support debugging of Godot games. They make it easy to launch and debug games from the IDE without the need to tweak any Godot setting. Code completion. This work was kindly sponsored by Microsoft.

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Real Programming

JULY 28, 2022

STEM subjects have always emphasized soft skills like problem-solving and concrete skills, like learning coding skills in the classroom that they’ll need in later grades and while working. Ontario’s curriculum for students in grades 1-8 aims at improving computational thinking, coding, innovation, and scientific and engineering design.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2024

Best Practices for Sharing Code Between Cocos Creator Projects Hello fellow developers, I’m currently exploring efficient ways to share reusable code across different projects in Cocos Creator and would appreciate your insights on two methods I’m considering: Git submodules and NPM packages. Has anyone else faced similar challenges?

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Game Designing

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Discover the intricate role of a game programmer – they are responsible for coding all elements of a game, from player interactions to menu functionality. Nothing happens in the game without the programmer first being the one to code it in. This role is all about solving problems through code.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This week’s Model Monday release features the NVIDIA-optimized code Llama, Kosmos-2, and SeamlessM4T, which you can experience directly from your browser. This week’s Model Monday release features the NVIDIA-optimized code Llama, Kosmos-2, and SeamlessM4T, which you can experience directly from your browser.

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Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

or better : with 3D scenes Origins Two days ago, I saw a fun effect: The article was: Dazzling HTML5 Front End Design Source Code Analysis Notes - Remnant Clothes Effect Example: Tearable Grid It is an effect that I’ve seen before and recently brushed up on. So I researched the code and prepared to port it to Cocos.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. This enables developers to create game logic without extensive coding experience. Minimal Coding Mobile game development is often a code-intensive process.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, gaming and other use cases.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 16, 2023

So after hunting for a solution, I went to the Chinese forums and found that some people suggest that mouseJoint is more of a debug tool. So I decided to attach my own joint to it dynamically in code but for some reason I can not attach a connected body. github cocos/cocos-engine/pull/16299 current version at time of writing is 3.8.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). 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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Student: Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). PR: #50454.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. PRs: #62075 , #62910. Project description.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GDScript series: GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer. GDScript progress report: Writing a new parser. Code generation abstraction. Before I delved into the interpreter, I created another class for abstracting the code generation process in the compiler. Those were measured with a debug build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And of course, Godot being one of the GitHub-hosted projects, you can work on your Hacktoberfest milestones by contributing directly to Godot's source code or documentation. Most of the code is C++, with some bits in Objective-C (iOS/macOS), Java (Android) and JavaScript (HTML5). Getting started. " campaign).

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

The full sample for game server, game client and backend functionalities, including source code and deployment instructions, can be found in the AWS Sample GitHub repository. Once you’ve specified your messages, you can write handlers for them using GameSparks’ Cloud Code functionality. Game client – Unity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

XML is not easy to write manually, and it's easy to make mistakes. To ease on this, it's possible to make an autoloaded scene or script a singleton variable (accessible at global scope) in the project settings: All this, of course, working together perfectly with code completion. New code editor. Improved code completion.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Slang is an open-source language for real-time graphics programming that brings new capabilities for writing and maintaining large-scale, high-performance, cross-platform graphics codebases. With Slang, existing real-time renderers can be made differentiable and learnable without major source code changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold. DAE (and hopefully FBX in the future) files are treated as if they were actual scenes (you load them directly from code). Seeing the code.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Download the project source code for free at： [link] Preface As one of the core skills of a lead programmer in large projects, I recommend those who have not yet mastered it to catch up quickly.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In this post, we introduce several code examples using differentiable Slang to demonstrate the potential use across different rendering applications and the ease of integration. For more information and code examples, see the /shader-slang GitHub repo. By using gradient descent, we don’t need to write the compression code explicitly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2018

Debug "no-perms" template: [link]. Download Godot source code from GitHub. In the export settings for Android, set the custom debug and release APKs generated by Gradle and use those. If you don't add any permission that justifies it, you don't need a privacy policy, but if you do, make sure to write one.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2017

I will write more posts about the internals and how things work in the future but, for this one, I would like to focus on introducing the language and how to write Godot scripts with it. Most people will likely prefer to use an IDE with great tooling or an external editor for writing C# code. Debugging extensions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 12, 2019

Currently, we only use JITed code, with AOT support coming in the future. Rewriting the module's editor code in C#. Excluding the C# bindings, most of the C# module's code is written in C++. This includes the editor code in charge of building the project, opening scripts with external editors/IDEs, and exporting the C# game.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

At the beginning, all my plugins were released in source code, and the creator did not have an anti-piracy mark mechanism in the early days (all understand and do not need to explain), so I hope the plugins can be compressed and confused as much as possible. How to synchronize these compatible codes in time is a little disgusting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). 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 ). GUI: Ensure that the cached layout mode is in sync ( GH-71183 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

We understood that most of the code written for a game is not performance critical, and that the C++ part of the engine already covers most of the critical parts, so we originally went for Lua, and then for Squirrel (while trying Python in the process). Binding code was always large, complex and prone to bugs.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Clone or download the source code from the poco-sdk repo – [link] 2. Remove the folders below from the downloaded poco-sdk source code folder ‘Unity3D’. Tools for writing test scripts using POCO: Once PocoDriver is integrated successfully, we can convert the code in to required builds such as WebGL, Android (.apk),

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s because there will be a read-on-write problem with gl. The key code is as follows: Next is all GrabPass, we need to do the fluctuation of the underwater part and the normal rendering of the water part. Since the web mobile code is all bare bones. Here first we block the debugging of the application.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. It is not possible to control, from user code, the internal steps of rendering.

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Awesome Tuts

MARCH 1, 2022

It will help you become a better game dev and write better code for sure. One of the favorites of many game dev goo-roo’s is debugging. That being said, we can’t even put this in the top 10 things a game dev needs to know. Next up, we have the good old SOLID principles and design patterns. This one is actually important.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Taking inspiration from community experts @gamemcu and @iwae for the ultimate solution, we can use code to directly display the post-processed RT rendered by the camera onto the final window. Since we create a rectangle rendered at the top layer through code, users(who use this solution) won’t notice it, making it both elegant and convenient.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2019

While it's relatively easy to make the editor build and run for browsers, many of its features can't work out of the box and need specific development for HTML5, such as handling multi-threading or the lack thereof, running/debugging edited projects, filesystem management, cloud storage, etc.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Not because it's necessarily harder to program or harder to make assets for, but it's much, much harder to debug. And if you run into an error, you have to take off the headset, put it in a safe place, edit the code, and then rinse and repeat this process until you get it running stably. Animating 3D stuff in-engine.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Aaron concludes the video by indicating that the next lesson will start with programming, easing into it by writing a few lines of code and discussing how it works. If it can do anything based on code, it needs to be an object. Then you’ve got objects, which are basically everything you interact with.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Porting existing 3.2 feature set.

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