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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Normally our Beta 1 release notes summarize all the most exciting changes from the previous dev releases. is coming with huge improvements to texture importing quality and speed thanks to new maintainer Bluecube3310. Overall, texture importing should feel faster and more stable than ever before. Import 4.4 As a result, 4.4

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Major Alvega, Textures - Dev log 20.

Indie DB

Today we bring you some work we did on textures for our game Major Alvega.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

dev 1 snapshot, but surely they couldnt follow that up with another flood of anticipated changes, right? dev 1 release notes for an overview of some key features which were already in that snapshot, and are therefore still available for testing in dev 2. With the 4.4 development snapshots. Well, maybe not after seeing the 4.5

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Solo dev Lincoln McCulloch’s all-consuming journey to develop Dungeons & Kingdoms

PreMortem.Games

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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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely” 

PreMortem.Games

Working in Mixed Reality, I met many ex game devs and artists, who I learned from and was greatly inspired by. Although we weren’t making games, the tech for Mixed Reality was identical to making games, so I picked up a lot of technical ability with Unity, game dev, shaders and more.” It’s made a huge difference.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. To create textures (materials), but also character portraits, environment (concept) art and pretty much anything I could imagine. The toll on your mental health can be quite high for solo devs. How do you deal with that?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta adds audio blending in AnimationTree, fixes GDScript typed arrays, and refactors high quality texture import to enable ASTC support. We're now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can.

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