Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

dev 1 snapshot, but surely they couldnt follow that up with another flood of anticipated changes, right? Now the time for proper enhancements and features entirely unique to this development cycle has come, and this blogpost will aim to highlight them to the best of our ability. With the 4.4 development snapshots.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Information on anti-cheat software in multiplayer games can now be featured on Steam store pages.

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Game Developer

MARCH 4, 2024

Crema is axing Temtem's microtransactions and "feature-filled patches" as it moves on to other projects.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With the new funding, Codecks aims to beef up staff and create new features to help game developers to keep track of their workload.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I remember when an Early Access update added the overworld feature. Disappointed by the lack of integration of the overworld feature into RimWorld, he further developed his idea. We discovered that in some cases, it took twice as long as normal to implement features. It looked really exciting to me, he says.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 30, 2024

Under the new changes, developers can control what games or DLC 'make the most sense' to be featured on their title's Steam page.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

As is often the case following a feature-freeze, several quality PRs were finally released from the collective backlog, as merging them at the time wouldve been too much of a risk. Our first development snapshot for 4.5 has arrived! In truth, the quantity has been so great that we couldve gotten away with releasing a snapshot a week ago!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 1, 2024

The last dev snapshot for 4.3 before feature freeze is a big one after 6 weeks of work!

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Laser focus The homestead-building mechanic stands out as one of the highlights for the two-man dev team. Gauging the speed at which you can design, implement, and test features is challenging without much previous experience. Seeing players use the tools on offer to make something unique and beautiful, it’s hard to top,” Otis shares.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2023

dev snapshot before we enter the beta phase, and it's absolutely feature-packed!

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 3, 2025

This is done by exaggerating certain features that humans typically find endearing and downplaying the features that humans find alarming, while keeping the visual recognizable. Bright colors, a stylized happy face, with no features that could be considered off-putting. This works with animals. It works with the undead.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

I then had enough time to focus on game dev, so I made the decision to start changing careers. I didn’t really think about what it meant to be a solo dev, I just focused on what I wanted to do which was learn how to make games. I knew plenty of software devs, even some that were making games, but they worked for game companies.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 25, 2023

The end of May means the approach of the feature freeze for Godot 4.1, and this dev snapshot aims to give you as many new features to test as possible.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In fact, in many ways, getting featured on blogs and podcasts is easier than convincing people to review your board game. How about getting featured on a podcast? Click here. Need help on your board game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

feature release. something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. Changelog 51 contributors submitted 116 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.4-beta2 beta2 snapshot. compared to the previous 4.3

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Because, let’s be honest, creating games is hard.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

DLC and continued support is a great training ground for juniors and mid-levels to level up their skills on lower-stakes content and features and post-launch content has a notably less brutal delivery schedule. I've always been a proponent of post-launch game support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

feature release. something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. Changelog 65 contributors submitted 141 improvements for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.4-beta3 beta3 snapshot. compared to the previous 4.3

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 26, 2025

Dev3 Released Today we have the third dev release of the Godot 4.5 These releases add new features and improvements to the Godot engine leading up to the Godot 4.5 GameFromScratch.com Godot 4.5 cycle, following hot on the heels ofGodot 4.5 dev1 released in March and Godot 4.5 dev2 released earlier in April. These The post Godot 4.5

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2025

This is, in part, due to a feedback cycle - I got really good at rescuing and shipping features and systems that were in danger of being cut, so I would get hired to do that. But most games that have features and systems in trouble often have the entire project in trouble, which would often mean layoffs.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2025

I had never actually shipped any gameplay features with code I had written. Although I could write some code, I had never actually shipped any gameplay features with code I had written, so if nothing else I was going to learn a lot about programming! Solo dev was everything I had imagined and more. How do you deal with that?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2023

It's time to start testing the next feature release of Godot 3, packed with over 500 fixes and enhancements which don't require any compatibility breaking changes!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

with massive new features such as typed dictionaries and error-less project import! The PR harvest keeps going strongly for Godot 4.4,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We haven't slowed down and are bringing you another feature-packed update!

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the game now announced for a 2024-release, the part time solo dev is motivated to finish the game. Sometimes I have to make a bet that a feature will be fun only to end up cutting later after playtest feedback.” “Burnout is a very real threat to solo-developers”, he says. There have been a few 6-month breaks there.”

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

I think that anyone making something like this is slightly delusional, thinking that your latest feature is the coolest thing ever,” he admits. Working in Mixed Reality, I met many ex game devs and artists, who I learned from and was greatly inspired by. Still, he’s highly motivated to release BOTSU. “I I don’t know, really.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2025

For 2-3 years I've been contributing level design to Big Hops (check us out at Day of the Devs) and I've learned a lot about making 3D platformer levels But for a demo / better sense of the game, contact the director Chris Wade ( chris [AT] luckshotgames.com ). A lot of the dev team will be hanging around GDC too. social event.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For example, the creative block that often gets stuck in our heads, or the lack of other points of view on a certain feature of the project, which could often be improved by including the expertise and experience of another professional. Beware of mutant scope. It’s preferable to cut elements rather than add new ones.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 26, 2024

already packed with new features! The first snapshot after releasing 4.3,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2023

This third dev snapshot features a lot of improvements to C# and rendering. One month into the release cycle for Godot 4.2, things are well under way.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2025

That's pretty normal for any major piece of technology - things improve and mature as more people use it and the dev team has the time and bandwidth to fix bugs, document things better, and add quality of life features. Most of these issues will eventually get ironed out, documented, and/or fixed as they come to light. as they go.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Get featured on a podcast or a blog. You can read more about that in my article here: Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. The post 20 New Year’s Resolutions for Board Game Devs in 2020 appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Learn how to use Board Game Geek. Happy New Year!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2023

is now in feature freeze and will only receive bug fixes going forward. Enjoy this final package of new features and enhancements and give them a good shake! This snapshot signifies that Godot 4.1

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2025

IP, release date, features or content you didn't work on, etc.). You can always talk about what work you've done, just focus on keeping it to your own contributions and not about the specifics of the project itself (e.g. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A month's worth of development means a lot of new features to test, such as single-threaded web exports and Wayland support!

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Joanie Kraut, CEO of Women in Games International (WIGI), will moderate a panel discussion featuring Stephanie Latham (Roblox), Jen MacLean (Dragon Snacks Games), and Sarah Anderson (Amazon Games). Each space features two demo stations, and an opportunity to dive deep with AWS for Games solution industry experts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Curated by author and artistic director Sharna Jackson, the Ensemble initiative features a new cohort each year , with their talent being showcased at exhibitions in various locations across London.

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