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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Game Designing

AUGUST 31, 2023

This video explores the challenges and responsibilities of game programming and the complex roles they undertake beyond coding which includes extensive problem-solving, research, experimentation, and, most importantly, debugging. Do we any debugging? 03:50) And really, I have to stress this is it is a lot of it going to be debugging.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

To further improve your debugging experience Hendrik introduced a checkbox that allows you to start the profiler automatically when you run your game from the editor and capture valuable profiling data immediately ( GH-96759 ). Note: At time of writing, this does not replace Godot Physics as the default 3D physics engine.

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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. github cocos/cocos-engine/pull/16299 current version at time of writing is 3.8.1 github cocos/cocos-engine/pull/16299 current version at time of writing is 3.8.1

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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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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Although it uses C#, Boo, and JavaScript, you can also build a game from start to end without writing any line of code. Seamless Debugging Debugging is a crucial part of mobile game development. As a result, you can track and debug visual components in real-time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ). GDScript: Fix getting type from PropertyInfo for Variant arguments ( GH-70644 ).

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Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the implementations are Unity, but the principles are the same, and a lot has been learned in handling and debugging.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

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 ). Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Project: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2024

Git Submodules Pros: Allows for debugging the entire codebase as it’s not precompiled; integrates directly with the project. NPM Packages Pros: Facilitates writing tests and possibly cleaner project separation. While I can extend cc.Component in my project, I face issues when trying to debug as I can’t step into the module’s code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2018

Debug "no-perms" template: [link]. 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. Compile the android templates. and Godot 3.0.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Debug draw mode for texel density. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction. No soft shadows.

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Rindoku

JANUARY 23, 2017

Things have been busy at Rikodu, but I finally decided to bite the bullet and post some technical write-ups about the systems we’re building for SecondHand. create sufficient debug tools & visualization to be able to tweak & debug everything. SecondHand’s Ai philosophy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

XML is not easy to write manually, and it's easy to make mistakes. Debug on hardware devices. It is also now now possible to debug a game running on an actual devices. Make sure to enable "Deploy Remote Debug" option in the remote options menu. Collision and navigation debugging. onready & singletons.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GDScript series: GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer. GDScript progress report: Writing a new parser. Those were measured with a debug build. It's been a while since my last report because this particular task took me more time than I anticipated. GDScript now got a much needed optimization. Can it be more optimized?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ). Editor: Fix the Frame Selection (Shift + F) functionality in the 2D editor ( GH-71272 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2018

You can add your own custom blending logic with the new Godot API, even writing your own state machine. A new node RootMotionView was added to aid in debugging root motion. The new API is very easy to extend and use: Root Motion. It is also easy to set a track as root motion. Compatibility.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2018

label also has a selection of issues ready to be worked on, where project maintainers or users have done enough initial debugging to point you in the right direction (see our recent blog post about the "Hero wanted!" Review the documentation on how to write documentation (yes, that has to be documented too!).

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

I have always thought that cocos creator’s plug-in development model is not specialized enough, essentially writing js naked, and later did a project together directly let me see how to make plug-in development more ‘front-end engineering’, perhaps not perfect, at least gave me a lot of inspiration.

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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. debug settings, different bit depth, demo version of a game with less files, etc.). Will be writing a post with more details about this shortly. Beginning with Godot 3.0, Export options (convert textures, etc.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

There are also some new debug modes to visualize how SDFGI is working: SDFGI Cascades: Show the world as SDF, helps you understand what voxel sizes are, so you adjust your geometry to work better with those voxel sizes. Will write an article about this soon. Read Skylight: Allow sky to contribute to lighting/. How does it work?

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It's easy to see why people love to write tutorials and conceptual-proofs, it's so rewarding! We have also encountered difficult-to-trace crashes in our exports that are exceedingly difficult to debug because they are not captured in the release build. How has Godot helped you advance on your project?

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Add and Write Script Write the corresponding post-processing script to control material parameters, perform multiple graphic processing, and expose relevant properties. The technology is not complicated, but the number of points is more or less limited, and debugging is also troublesome. I tested it with an image.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

To demonstrate Slang’s flexibility and compatibility with multiple existing frameworks, we write the optimization loop in PyTorch in a Jupyter notebook , enabling easy visualization, interactive debugging, and Markdown documentation of the code. By using gradient descent, we don’t need to write the compression code explicitly.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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), After removing the unwanted folders as mentioned above, place the Unity3D folder in the game project script directory. And add the script file Unity3D/PocoManager.cs apk), IOS (.ipa),

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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. Those workarounds are not only difficult to write and read but also have a significant performance and memory usage overhead. Show me the code!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

Jānis will showcasing a cool set of tools that allow you to debug your game visually similarly to Unity's Scene view. Visual Debugger is a tool allowing developers to debug their Godot projects while the application is running in the editor or in a build. Demo: Visual Debugger for the Godot community | Jānis Mancēvičs.

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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. They allow very high-budget games to run better and, in the long run, make the job of writing drivers MUCH simpler to hardware manufacturers. in only 4k lines of code!) Full code completion.

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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, was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. Rendering: Unified 2D batching.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Once you’ve specified your messages, you can write handlers for them using GameSparks’ Cloud Code functionality. Debug("Ticket ID is: " + JSON.stringify(ticketId)); // Store the ticket ID for the matchmaking request in the player data const data = { "TicketId": ticketId } GameSparks().CurrentPlayer().SetData(data); CurrentPlayer().Id();

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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. The other one I’m going to use a lot is F five, which is to run your game, as you can see right here, and F6, which is to debug it, which we’ll talk about later.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

When users write code in GDScript within the IDE, everything simply "just works" and you have the added value of live code completion. To make it clearer, it is not our belief that forcing programmers to write code with visual blocks will result in a more efficient workflow.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Normally with UI feature implementation I’ll start by writing out a comprehensive list of everything that needs to be done, and any other elements I can think of which might be affected and therefore need testing and confirmation. Now map cells could be four times as wide as text, and twice as tall!

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