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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, this was challenging to implement as Godot runs the game as a separate process from the editor for two reasons: The game process uses its own address space and therefore doesnt have to share CPU/GPU resources with the editor (or at least, not as much as if it was the same process).

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts! The biggest feature this adds is the ability to export scenes as glTF. Lossless WebP encoding.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4 If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4 If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The Economy of the Metaverse | Interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

In the case of the Metaverse, you’re also talking about huge shared online experiences that mean somebody is going to be hosting millions of servers that are running all of the simulations that contribute to these Metaverse experiences, whether they’re games like Fortnite or social experiences or streaming video or anything else.

Platformer

Platformer Data Point and Click Build

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We also discussed a proposal to further clean up the documentation and clearly separate more game-specific tutorials, as well as having a clearer way to link to content generated by our community. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Terminal-based engines don’t behave like a normal game engine where you have individual windows represented essentially as images layered on top of one another and their contents can therefore be scaled individually.

Render

Render Engine Engineering FPS

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. Then there are in-graph editable nodes , which provide a simple yet powerful UX improvement to the Visual Script. Data nodes are disconnected; in case connections from multiple connections are present the current connection that you make takes precedence.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional game designers: Unreal Engine/Unity Blueprint/C# Microsoft or Google Office software for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Art software (e.g., They commonly create prototypes that will act as proof of concept, a crucial early stage of the production pipeline.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Key issues covered in this panel discussion include: Biggest mistakes to avoid Creatively led vs. data led companies… and also vs. technology led? Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic! This one, I’ve watched or listened to 5 times now. Gigi Levy Weiss That is so true.

Games

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering