Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

More than once I made DEBUG builds rather than RELEASE builds or forgot to change some debug setting back. For me to get a new playtest or (more importantly) a dev engine build can take 15-30 minutes. I use Microsoft’s Azure to do cloud compiles of the c++ engine for my new game. Same with the Mac build.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Bonus difficulty if you have to reproduce the bug on a debug build with a low frame rate Silent failure - The bug doesn’t actually trigger any error messages or logs or anything, it just fails silently without a trace Requires multiple players to repro - Happens only on a dedicated server with multiple squads all playing at once!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Fix cluster_render.glsl failing on some Macs ( GH-67746 ). XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It isn’t terribly technical, but I don’t have a dev kit at the home office at the moment so you only get some of my old photos of dev kits from my previous employer today. A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console. Those text interfaces exist so we can access debug commands.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

More than once I made DEBUG builds rather than RELEASE builds or forgot to change some debug setting back. For me to get a new playtest or (more importantly) a dev engine build can take 15-30 minutes. I use Microsoft's Azure to do cloud compiles of the c++ engine for my new game. Same with the Mac build.

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Debug Playtesting Build Engine 100

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ). This release is built from commit 3c9bf4bc2.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 24, 2024

Some random dev kit trivia: Dev kits can’t play retail games at all. Dev kits have much bigger system specs because we have to be able to run debug builds. Debug builds are much less optimized because of all the debug information that’s kept in memory. Dev kits have more features and better hardware.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our SCons setup used to have tools and target options that were combined to build either the editor or the export templates, and define whether it’s a “release” or “debug” build. The “debug” term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our SCons setup used to have tools and target options that were combined to build either the editor or the export templates, and define whether it's a "release" or "debug" build. The "debug" term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Navigation: Add more detailed Navigation debug visualization ( GH-62601 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). As soon as the.NET 6 port is ready to test, it will be included in dev snapshots. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2019

From now on dev focus is on release-critical issues that would seriously hamper Godot 3.1's There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. This new release fixes various crash scenarios, as well as a performance regression in the GLES backend.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.102. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ). Core: Optimize octree and fix leak ( GH-41123 ).

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Cocos

JULY 29, 2024

. > com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: C++ build system [build] failed while executing: /Users/me/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/25.1.8937393/ndk-build NDK_PROJECT_PATH=null APP_BUILD_SCRIPT=/Users/me/Dev/my_app/proj.android/app-myapp/jni/Android.mk NDK_APPLICATION_MK=/Users/me/Dev/my_app/proj.android/app-myapp/jni/Application.mk

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Navigation: Add debug visuals for GridMap cell edge connections ( GH-64173 ). Web: Re-enable Web exporter in non-dev mode ( GH-65464 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Linux: Fix minimize/maximize not taking effect in X11 ( GH-65107 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Rendering: Fix debug CanvasItem redraw rects in RD renderer ( GH-103017 ). Particles: Fix particle not re-randomizing every emission ( GH-103068 ). Porting: Window: Fix flashing subwindows ( GH-102983 ). Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ). Changelog As we released 4.4

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By then, we had a development kit (called the Dev Tool) that ran Linux and had a sufficiently large hard drive that we could copy PS2 binaries onto and run. One of my coworkers would run an Unreal Tournament dedicated server on his dev tool for team network games after hours. ALT My very first shipped title was for the PS2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Since then, Hein-Pieter spent some time debugging and fixing our cross-compilation issues. There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. would be on its release. The features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Our debug logging keeps tabs on everything in terms of milliseconds so we can see how temporally far apart events in the log fire. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ). Crypto: Add AESContext, RSA public keys, encryption, decryption, sign, and verify ( GH-48144 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A huge thankyou to Clay John for debugging and fixing so many rendering issues. There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Thanks to @oeleo1 for doing the research, testing and providing patches. would be on its release. The features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ). Core: Optimize octree and fix leak ( GH-41123 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ). Core: Optimize octree and fix leak ( GH-41123 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ). Debugger: Automatic remote debugger port assignment ( GH-37067 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 3, 2020

There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2 would be on its release. The features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There will still be many fixes and enhancements done before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 would be on its release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

There will still be many fixes and enhancements done before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 would be on its release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2018

2) The macOS release export template (the one in the templates zip is for now a copy of the debug export template). Note: Due to a huge backlog of macOS builds on the buildsystem we use for release binaries, two macOS binaries are missing at the time of this announcement: 1) The Mono-flavoured macOS editor binary.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1 would be on its release. The features.

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Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 11, 2020

There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2 would be on its release. The features.

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Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ).

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This means that, as the last big game/expansion/deliverable ships and the next one begins development, there will be new devs hired on who will need to ramp up and older devs who hold a lot of tribal knowledge will leave the project (either finding new jobs, getting promoted to management, or transferred to a different project internally).

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