Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 21, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it’s great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I’ve always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 21, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it’s been great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I’ve always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other day which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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Unity Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Every object, every system, and every pixel in games will eventually be touched by AI. Get to know Unity’s newest AI products for creators: Unity Muse, an expansive platform for AI-driven assistance during creation, and Unity Sentis, which enables developers to embed neural networks in the Unity Runtime.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GameFromScratch.com The Zenva Complete Godot Humble Bundle If you are looking to learn the Godot game engine, which seems to be in high demand these days, the Zenva Complete Godot Bundle might be exactly what you are looking for.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it's great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I've always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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Editing Point and Click Pixel Scripting 100

Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it's been great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I've always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other day which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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Point and Click Pixel Scripting Engine 100

Unity Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Learn about the benefits and trade-offs of different ways to access the underlying pixel data of textures in your Unity project.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The cover illustration is from Tiny Pasture , an endearing literal desktop pet that has cute pixel art animals grazing at the bottom of your screen while you do other things. While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software.

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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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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Learn how to set up Hardware Ray Tracing in Unreal Engine 5. Then you’re all set!

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Nvidia

AUGUST 25, 2023

replaces hand-tuned denoisers with an NVIDIA supercomputer-trained AI network that generates higher quality pixels in between sampled rays. Integration into a custom engine is developer-friendly with the Streamline 2.2 For Unreal Engine titles, simply install the plug-in into your project and most of the work is done.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). The updates are available through NVIDIA SDKs and select technologies through the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX). NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

However, in contrast to games built with the engine, it wasnt possible to change the current language on-the-fly within the editor itself. While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 31, 2013

I had just been laid off from a company called Human Engineered Software (my first job) and had moved back to Oregon and was about ready to start college again when the phone rang. I was hired at Lucasfilm Games by Noah Falstein as a Commodore 64 programmer porting his game Koronis Rift from the Atari 800. I just moved back. Or confused.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 1, 2013

I had just been laid off from a company called Human Engineered Software (my first job) and had moved back to Oregon and was about ready to start college again when the phone rang. I was hired at Lucasfilm Games by Noah Falstein as a Commodore 64 programmer porting his game Koronis Rift from the Atari 800. I just moved back. Or confused.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 23, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Using Aseprite with Godot Aseprite is a popular pixel art creation tool and it works incredibly well with the Godot game engine. A few months back we covered the Aseprite Importer for the Unity Engine.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Taking a different tack from last time , I decided that it would be worth getting really dirty with low-level engine work for the next attempt at map zooming. If we play by the engine rules we get to keep that functionality in its existing simple package, which generally means massive savings on CPU cycles. No crashes, just big tiles.

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Starloop Studios

JUNE 22, 2023

The gaming industry as it is in the modern era is unrecognizable compared to its formative years in the 70s, 80, and 1990s. Even the most modestly budgeted modern games dwarf early titles in terms of scope, depth, and vision. This, of course, is largely to do with the hardware limitations of the industry’s [.]

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. We started making Primal Light in Python (using the PyGame module), but when we started getting serious about the project, we decided to shift to a full-fledged engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26 Branch (NvRTX).

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unreal Engine : This real-time engine is a staple of many game and virtual production studios. Using Unreal Engine and Lumen, you can add realistic lighting to a scene, including automatically changing real-time global illumination (such as sky rotation). Here’s a tutorial on how to add lights to your scene using Houdini.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. For each pixel drawn to the screen, OpenGL will interpolate the outputs that were generated from the vertex program and use them to fill the triangle. This process is done in the fragment program (pixel shader in DirectX terminology). Fragment Program.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. please file an issue on GitHub.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects. Pyxel Edit: Perfect for creating retro pixel art.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

NVIDIA set out to redefine real-time rendering through AI-based super resolution — rendering a fraction of the original pixels and then using AI to reconstruct sharp, higher resolution images. DLSS is now available in Unreal Engine 4 through our official DLSS UE 4.26

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 12, 2013

Nice big juicy icons full of pixels. I’d build an engine and a language where funny ideas can be laughed about at lunch and be in the game that afternoon. I haven’t fully worked it out (not that I am working it out, but if I was working it out, which I’m not, I wouldn’t have it fully worked out). True story.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

This improves the fill rate because pixels outside the polygon won't be drawn. Export formats - Spine exports animation data in its own, documented JSON and binary formats which are light and hence ideal for game engines, as compared to old frame-by-frame sequence. This is an important aspect for mobile games.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

To NEW Friends ： Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. Solution for transparent object rendering. which is where the term “Deferred” comes from.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 16, 2018

One of the features that make Godot stand out is how easy it is to use the physics engine for non-physics games. snap 32 pixels down velocity = move_and_slide_with_snap(velocity, Vector2(0, -1), Vector2(0, 32)). preset for snap, 32 pixels down var snap = Vector2(0, 32) # oh, but are we jumping? KinematicBody. RayCast Shapes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

Namely: Python for Godot by Emmanuel Leblond, Benefits of porting Godot Engine to Vulkan by Juan Linietsky, and Reloading Escoria by Julian Murgia. It tricks the eye into believing that there are rooms modeled behind the windows, but ceilings, floors and walls are actually created on the fly by a special custom pixel shader.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can create a good game only through a dedicated software or a game engine. The first step is to install a game engine on the computer, while most game engines work on both Mac and PC, there are some game engines that work only on PC or Mac. Unity This is the most famous game engine preferred by game developers.

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Cocos

APRIL 7, 2024

CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:70169:47) CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:70080:23) CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js:69777:16)

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

Nice big juicy icons full of pixels. I'd build an engine and a language where funny ideas can be laughed about at lunch and be in the game that afternoon. I haven't fully worked it out (not that I am working it out, but if I was working it out, which I'm not, I wouldn't have it fully worked out). Six - Full-on inventory. True story.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. Over time, this evolved, incorporating more detailed pixel art, smooth pictorial Movement, and realistic effects. Advancements in 2.5D It offers captivating visuals while optimizing the production process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2021

Five years in development, Resolutiion tells the story of the soldier Valor and his AI Alibii’s journey through a 2D dreamworld of lovely pixels, dirty jokes and badassemotional tunes, inspired by classic Zelda and similar action-adventure-games. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? How did you discover Godot?

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