Brand Game Development
JULY 30, 2018
In 2012, as many as 84% Kickstarter projects were fulfilled late. While I suspect that figure has dropped since then, it’s still a running joke that Kickstarter projects always fulfill late. Behind the scenes, a lot of projects also tend to run well over-budget, too. So what’s happening and how can we prevent you from suffering the same fate?
Grumpy Gamer
JULY 27, 2018
I'm quite enjoying Octopath Traveler. I'm not a big fan of other Square games and generally don't enjoy the JRPG format, but for some reason, this game has stuck with me for hours and hours. I've just hit the first boss I can't defeat (to avoid any embarrassment, I'm not saying which one). I've beat my head against this boss for quite a while and I'm about ready to just quit.
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Tom Francis
JULY 30, 2018
I love Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Dishonored 2, and the name for these games is dumb: they’re ‘immersive sims’ If you asked me what I liked about them, my answer would be a phrase almost as dumb: ’emergent gameplay!’ I always used to think of these as virtually the same thing, but of course they’re not. Immersive sims usually have a whole list of traits, things like: Multiple solutions: you can overcome most problems in more than one way – the minimum
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 28, 2018
At long last, Godot 2.1.5 is ready and comes packed with new features and bug fixes! It's the result of 11 months of work ( since 2.1.4 ) from many contributors who care about supporting our previous stable branch (the current one and main focus being Godot 3.0.x ). Download it now from our repositories if you are still using Godot 2.1.x for some projects.
The Astronauts
JULY 25, 2018
Hello! End of June & start of July we were traveling in Iceland, so here’s some photos and stuff. I’ve heard that some folks somehow don’t know that Iceland is absolutely beautiful. How?! Here’s my attempt at helping the situation by dumping a whole bunch of photos into the series of tubes. Planning We’ve been to Iceland before; what we did differently this time was: Almost 2x longer trip (11 days), Our kids are 5 years older (15 and 9yo), which makes it easier!
Mnenad
JULY 8, 2018
Prototype is ready! Watch the new trailer for GenoTerra right here: 96. Normal. 0. 21. false. false. false. DE. X-NONE. X-NONE. I know it has been a long time since the last blog post to this project. But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). I changed plenty of things from the last time I posted about coherent creature design in April, I did a play testing with a couple of people and witho
Brand Game Development
JULY 16, 2018
Press releases sound really fancy and formal. The phrase “press release” comes with a sort of gravitas that conjures up images of very official sounding businesspeople doing very official sounding business tasks. Extra, extra – read all about it! In reality, press releases are well-crafted emails that you send to bloggers and journalists – in our case, those in the board game industry.
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Grumpy Gamer
JULY 14, 2018
All I want to do is pass a #define on the command line to msbuild. Why does MS make this so hard? Why not have a simple /DFOOBAR option? This kind of pointless complexity drives me crazy. I’m sure some nerd at MS was super pleased with their wicked powerful solution… fine… but provide a simple solution for the thing 90% of people want to do.
Brand Game Development
JULY 9, 2018
Reddit: the word that strikes fear into internet marketers everywhere. It’s an extremely lively website that hosts innumerable diverse communities and has a unique culture that makes it seem impenetrable to the self-promoter. That’s part of the magic of Reddit, though – it’s not to be bought and sold. It’s a place for discussion.
Grumpy Gamer
JULY 5, 2018
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Grumpy Gamer
JULY 2, 2018
I have a Git question. I kind of know how to do this but in a horrible brut forced way and I'd like to know if there is a "better" or more "elegant" way to do it. The letters A-I are misleading. The actual repository has around 600 commits (and close to 1000 files/directories). I have a master branch (A-F) and I created a new branch (G,H,I) and have been actively working on it.
Brand Game Development
JULY 2, 2018
Having your board game reviewed for the first time can be nervewracking. It’s difficult to send your brainchild to a critic who can influence the way your game is seen when it comes time to Kickstart or publish it. Much of the anxiety that new game developers experience when sending their games off to reviewers comes from the opaqueness of the process.
Grumpy Gamer
JULY 1, 2018
I have a Git question. I kind of know how to do this but in a horrible brut forced way and I’d like to know if there is a “better” or more “elegant” way to do it. The letters A-I are misleading. The actual repository has around 600 commits (and close to 1000 files/directories). I have a master branch (A-F) and I created a new branch (G,H,I) and have been actively working on it.
Grumpy Gamer
JULY 15, 2018
All I want to do is pass a #define on the command line to msbuild. Why does MS make this so hard? Why not have a simple /DFOOBAR option? This kind of pointless complexity drives me crazy. I'm sure some nerd at MS was super pleased with their wicked powerful solution. fine. but provide a simple solution for the thing 90% of people want to do. Sorry, I just needed to vent.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 28, 2018
Godot has had its first public security issue. This has been an. interesting experience for our team. The issue in question affects people that try to deserialize untrusted native Godot data. For the most part this only affects people running as a networking server but people serializing savegame data may also be affected. This last case for the most part would allow people to cheat in their local games.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 25, 2018
For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ). We have five students working on some great projects to add new features to the engine, either via C++ modules, GDNative plugins or external plugins. See our previous announcement for a quick presentation of each topic. I've asked all students to write a short progress report about their projects, which are all in the last stages of development for the GSoC internship.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 25, 2018
As some of you probably noticed a lot of PRs on the backlog now need a rebase because of PR 20137. This post is to explain why. Godot has a copy on write or 'CoW' feature for a lot of its data structures. What this means in practice is basically that: Vector vec1; for (int i = 0; i vec2 = vec1; Is basically free, vec1 and vec2 will share memory and this basically takes no time.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 22, 2018
While GDScript is made with the ease-of-use in mind, many people wanted to add type information into their scripts. This helps avoiding potential bugs and also allows a better code completion. We're now introducing an additional syntax to add type hints to your GDScript code. It is completely optional and old scripts will work as they always did. Note: This is a new feature in the master branch, and will be available in Godot 3.1.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 22, 2018
Introduction. After all the light types are implemented, the next step is to implement shadow mapping, with all its frustrating implementation details ;). Roadmap. Done June 2018. finish lights. implement shadow atlas. depth rendering for shadow mapping. spot light shadows. omni light shadows. billboard support in shaders and editor fixes. BlendSpace1D.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 19, 2018
Yes, you read correctly: Godot 2.1.5 is still being worked on, four months after the previous release candidate and close to one year after the 2.1.4 stable release ! I planned to release it much sooner, but 3.0 and its subsequent maintenance releases happened, and I could only dedicate a few hours every now and then to the old stable branch. On top of that, I decided to wait for this RC2 to have a proper fix for the Android placeholder permissions issue that crept up on Google Play in May and a
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 16, 2018
KinematicBody. One of the features that make Godot stand out is how easy it is to use the physics engine for non-physics games. KinematicBody allows controlling a character entity around with a single function ( move_and_slide ). Simply pass a linear velocity, and it will be returned back adjusted while the player moves around the level. velocity = move_and_slide(velocity).
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 13, 2018
After some weeks of work, the new visual shader editor is ready for testing! What is a visual shader editor? This editor allows creating shaders using nodes and connections, instead of typing code. It provides a simple and fool-proof way for those not confident in writing shader code to create complex shaders. Why was it gone in the first place? This editor compiles to shader code.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 7, 2018
Oh hello, I didn't see you there. Come in and join us at the dinner table with Godot 3.0.5. This is another relatively small release but many people were bitten by the Google Play privacy policy issue. This is why we decided to release sooner rather than later. In this release the placeholder permissions are gone and exported APKs are clean. If you use any of the following permissions: CALENDAR, CAMERA, CONTACTS, LOCATION, MICROPHONE, PHONE, SENSORS, SMS, STORAGE you must add a privacy policy to
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 2, 2018
After three days of intensive game development and two weeks of playtesting and rating (over 3,500 ratings!), we now have the results for our June 2018 Godot Community Game Jam ! 110 participants developed games with Godot Engine on the theme TEMPERATURE. There were ton of great ideas, and it has been a lot of fun to play them all and give the authors some feedback.
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