Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2025

Gameplay Programmers are the engineers who work directly with designers to make the designs actually work in game. This often involves building and supporting tools to allow the designers to create, edit, and tune many different individual instances of a specific kind of content - abilities, spells, items, enemies, quests, etc.

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AWS Games

JUNE 15, 2023

Epic Games (Epic) is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of Unreal Engine (UE), one of the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools that powers some of the world’s leading games including Fortnite, and is also utilized by creators across industries to deliver cutting-edge experiences. NET Framework 4.6.x

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AWS Games

JUNE 28, 2023

In this article we’ll show you how to build an Unreal Engine game with full support for the AWS Graviton processor. We show 42% cost savings with the Graviton instance for the same performance, 22% more throughput and a 20% lower price than on x86 cores with an Unreal Engine-based game, Lyra Starter Game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. by George Marques ( GH-46830 ), Typed Dictionaries rapidly became one of the engines most requested features. Godot should now feel much faster when editing large scenes with hundreds or thousands of nodes.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unreal - Game Engine Unreal Engine is a powerful and production-proven RT3D (Real-Time 3D) computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games. The latest releases of Unreal Engine have allowed many developers to use Unreal Engine to create award-winning VR experiences for Oculus headsets.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. This tutorial is meant for beginners as well as experts in Unreal Engine. You can check out the Parasite Platformer tutorial by clicking the link below: Create A Parasite Platformer Game In Unreal Engine. Types Of Light In Unreal Engine.

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Game From Scratch

JULY 18, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Terrain3D – A New Terrain Engine for Godot Terrain3D was just released, a free and open source terrain engine for the Godot game engine. on of the most requested missing features is a system for creating and editing terrain. With the recent release of Godot 4 (and Godot 4.1)

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. Also included is Wimpy, the executable that allows you to add and edit objects in Rooms. I've always skewed away from visual programming and dialogue engines. don't hit the back button yet.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

But wait… don’t hit the back button yet… I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. Also included is Wimpy, the executable that allows you to add and edit objects in Rooms. “Holy crap-a-reno! Today it’s easy.

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AWS Games

MAY 4, 2023

The recently updated Amazon GameLift Server SDK from Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an Unreal Engine plugin that is compatible with both Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. plugin into Unreal Engine 5, create an Anywhere fleet, and register your local workstation as a compute resource. Unreal Engine 5.1.0

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

The Unity engine and Godot are two popular game development engines that have gained significant traction in recent years. While both have their strengths and weaknesses, which engine to use largely depends on the specific needs and requirements of the project.

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Game From Scratch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

GameFromScratch.com MetSys – Metroidvania System for Godot There is a new add-on for creating Metroidvania style games using the Godot Game Engine, MetSys or the Metroidvania System 1.0. This toolkit makes it easy to Metroid and Castlevania style 2D games by providing a new set of map editing tools.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. The Derived Data Cache in Unreal Engine serves as a storage mechanism for data that is computationally expensive to generate. Setting up a cloud-based shared Derived Data Cache offers scalability for your Unreal Engine projects.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you are looking for a Baldur’s Gate 3 cheat engine guide and some necessary information, this article is the perfect source for you. So, you may want to use Cheat Engine on BG3. What is Cheat Engine? The Cheat Engine is an open-source memory scanner and debugger which is used for cheating on modern video games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2021

Edit: We have seen many comments on our April Fool's joke. It may have taken us a long time, but we finally understood and accept that Godot is about reaching wider audiences , about making something ultimate , about going be beyond what any other game engine has ever attempted. The Godette character was made years ago.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

If you're already well familiar with the term, feel free to skip the following few paragraphs and dive straight into the implementation from Preparing a new Unreal Engine project. How can we retrieve and utilize data from a single API that doesn't differentiate between a web browser and an Unreal Engine application?

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Cocos

OCTOBER 8, 2023

github.com/cocos/cocos-engine Cannot create and edit Real Curve in 3.8 Editor opened 02:02AM - 08 Oct 23 UTC zhefengzhang Feature Request Needs Triage ### Use Case - ### Problem Description [link] … nnot-create-and-edit-real-curve-in-3-8-editor/59588 [link] demo: [59588.zip]([link]

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This included supporting new use-cases requested by users like editing generic methods, improving the editor extension UI, decoupling it from our game codebase, implementing licensing, and a bit more.” “For the public release of Hot Reload for Unity, we spent around a month developing the tool”, says Leysen.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. The custom physics engine still has a considerable amount of issues remaining but we are working hard to ensure it is in a decent state for shipping when 4.0

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Game Errors

MARCH 13, 2023

But no fun because the game won’t start or crashes after a few minutes with an “Engine Error” pop-up message. What is Apex Legends Engine Error? Reboot your PC, and launch Apex Legends to check if the Engine Error is gone. Edit the registry Time needed: 1 minute. Run the game as an administrator.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Unreal Engine (UE) is a quality software for the development of various game types, and it’s used by a significant number of famous game development studios in terms of the creation of incredible PCs and console projects. However, is it really a good idea to utilize Unreal Engine for Android game development ? Development.

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Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 20, 2020

Given that this was my engine, I decided to change it. I expect these to be edited by consumers and { } is hard to understand if you’re not a techie person. JSON was created by Doug Crockford, whom I worked with at Lucasfilm. Doug is a super smart guy and JSON is one of the best formats I’ve ever seen.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Godot Engine has been awarded USD 50,000 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) Mission Partners program. WP1: Godot Engine's editor on the Web. These demos will be used to showcase and benchmark various features of the engine. They will post progress reports on this blog.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

DLSS Super Resolution has been available in Unreal Engine since 2021, making it easy to integrate NVIDIA AI scaling technology into Unreal Engine projects. NVIDIA has now released DLSS 3 for Unreal Engine 5.2, For more information about Unreal Engine 5.1 The DLSS 3 Unreal Engine 5.2 Unzip the DLSS folder.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2019

Edit: This was of course a joke for April Fools' Day 2019. Even though there are over 800 contributors pushing code (surpassing any other engine, open or closed, on GitHub), Godot still doesn't feel corporate enough. You can start by checking out the engine development documentation and also taking a look to our junior job issues.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Computer software like Unreal Engine has been in the works to build 3D models of structures. Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Some strong features that are worth mentioning are as follows.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Selecting the most suitable mobile game engine is one of the crucial decisions that must be taken. The engine will greatly affect the design, performance and overall quality of your game. Various gaming engines are out there, so picking the right one could be challenging.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2019

This is possible because the engines in which such games are made are actual 3D engines using 2D planes. In the end, doing this is possible but it requires understanding and being familiar with how 3D engines work. Godot 2D engine already has a node named CanvasLayer. Same technique in Godot. Canvas layers.

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Cocos

AUGUST 17, 2024

I want to make a simpler editor, I want to make an editor based on visual programming like Buildbox, but is it more logical to download and edit an open source version of Cocos Creator or write an editor from scratch using cocos2d-x engine? What should I start by researching.

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AWS Games

JULY 29, 2022

For game development, it is important to be able to use AWS with popular game engines such as Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine (UE) is an advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photorealistic visuals and immersive experiences. Since Unreal Engine scripting is done in C++, we would need the C++ version of the AWS SDK.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 12, 2023

Adding a pinch of excitement to the stressful corporate lives, the committee members of Evon Technologies, Dehradun, organized the fifth edition of the Evon Premier League (EPL), an inter-office cricket tournament for employees at OFD Stadium Raipur. There are a lot of engineers in the IT industry.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the Godot Engine project is receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs to support our work on the XR capabilities of the engine. This renews Reality Labs' engagement to support the free and open source Godot game engine, after a first grant in December 2020. Supporting Godot development.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. USD is different from our previous format in that it can be edited in different tools, such as Houdini.

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Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 21, 2020

Given that this was my engine, I decided to change it. I expect these to be edited by consumers and { } is hard to understand if you're not a techie person. JSON was created by Doug Crockford, whom I worked with at Lucasfilm. Doug is a super smart guy and JSON is one of the best formats I've ever seen. name: Delores }.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They are an important aspect of game development and play a crucial role in creating visually stunning environments and objects in Unreal Engine. In this post we are going to take a look at materials in depth, explain how to create, edit, and use them in our games. The Basics Of Materials In Unreal Engine. Where To Go From Here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector. GH-59810 ).

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