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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

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 feature further simplifies mobile game development by allowing developers to download or purchase various tools, assets, scripts, and plugins.

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Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Blueprint Visual Scripting System Based on the idea of a node-based interface, the blueprint system in the Unreal engine creates gameplay elements. Some of the best AAA games built in the Unreal engine are Gears 5, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and Resident Evil 4 VR, among others.

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Engine Engineering Development Visual Scripting

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun. Project: Improvements To Visual Scripting System. Visual Script graph unification. Visual Script tool script. GDScript Language Server by Ankit Priyarup.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Scripting Clipping Point and Click

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. I aim to have transitioner functional by the beginning of August which will give me time to debug any potential issues and come up with a fix for the memory leak. The integrated script editor in Godot lacks features found in editors like VS Code, Sublime, Emacs, etc.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

QXR Studios accelerates game testing and development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

In building the game, developers switch between Unreal Engine’s Blueprint visual scripting language and C++, and leverage the AWS SDK to call REST APIs from AWS Lambda. Devine employs the solution to monitor gameplay traffic on a local workstation for debugging.

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More programming languages in Godot, want to help?

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

This was the case of third party scripting languages such as Lua, Python, Squirrel, etc. When we originally made Godot, we were completely certain that we wanted our main scripting language to be dynamically typed due to the high accessibility this provides. Why Visual Scripting? So then, again, why visual scripting?

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Visual Scripting Scripting Code Puzzle

Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As we progress through this tutorial series, I’ll be doing so with a focus on using no-code development tools rather than scripting to create games. Moving over to the right, you’ll see our workspaces , which we can toggle between to view our game or game scripts. So let’s jump in and start learning about Godot’s interface.

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Asset Editing Code Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 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 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. Live script reloading. Godot now supports live script reloading! Simply save your script and it will be updated in the running game. Android), and using "Deploy with Remote Debug", live script reloading will magically happen in there too.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. These can only be dealt with manually while debugging. This essentially extends the scope of static checks, currently just done within each script, to operate across scripts and scenes. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, This is particularly useful for files which you intend to process yourself from scripts based on their raw contents (e.g. HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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More programming languages in Godot, want to help?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

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

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