Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been living through a glorious age: the Great Board Game Renaissance. In a world aglow with smartphones, tablets, and those annoying billboards that change every five seconds on the side of the road, analog gaming has become a welcome retreat for millions. I wouldn’t have expected history to unfold like that when I was a kid, but here we are.

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Games Art Media Game Design 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

It has been a year since we started actively asking for donations on Patreon (and other means). Thanks to that, I could work paid for an entire year so far (which has resulted in dozens of new features and me helping a huge amount of contributors). Thanks to that, also, Rémi could also work full time since March and help ease the big chaos of our large number of contributors, as well as many of his dedicated project manager tasks which, as you can see, keep growing and growing: And we could also

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Ray Tracing Feature Engine Engineering 52

Click Nothing

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

To conclude this series on my favorite pieces about Far Cry 2, I have chosen a handful of pieces that, for one reason or another, I felt did not ‘fit’ in the Top 10. I chose to keep there pieces.

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Games 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

While normal maps have been a staple of the Godot render engine for years, new capabilities of the render engine introduced in Godot 3.1 also require the generation of tangents and bi-tangents (often refered to as binormals in engines' documentation) to function correctly. Tangents and bi-tangents are two vectors that together with the normal vector give enough orientation detail of a face to provide correct lighting.

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Mesh Render Alpha Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The pull request workflow is great, because it allows proposing changes to the codebase in a way where they can be evaluated, reviewed (with feedback) and eventually merged or rejected. Despite this, a large amount of pull requests (PRs) get rejected for reasons that are often unclear to new contributors. To avoid unnecesary work, this short article has some suggestions on what is desired and what is not, and the general rules for accepting or rejecting pull requests.

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