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Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. As the nominations for this year’s edition of the Video Games Awards are rolling in, a now four-year-old suggestion seems more pertinent than ever. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal. Specialized artist UIs.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. It is not yet usable in production.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). Notably, for nodes in the main window, this is the same as the scene tree's root node ( get_tree().get_root() get_root() ).

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Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Game Development

To do that we will edit the spaceship sprite by clicking on it in the project window. So we need to edit those as well. So we need to edit those as well. Select the player object and edit the collider so it is now 0.2 This time we will edit the enemy prefab. Which is double the previous value of 0.1.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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