Engine, Platformer and Visual Scripting

Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Motion Capture (2D, 3D, LiveLink) Real-time Rendering One of the standout Unreal Engine features is its support for real-time rendering.

Engine

Engine Engineering Development Visual Scripting

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

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

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. Cross-Platform Compatibility Cross-platform gameplay is one of the biggest game development trends of 2023. However, with time, it started supporting multiple platforms.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Game Developer

Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Dimensions: This platform focuses on AI-powered 3D asset creation. But that’s not all! And guess what?

Game Development

Game Development Game Developer Development Cross platform

Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

2D VFX Software While 3D VFX often gets the most attention, 2D effects are still very important for many types of games, like side-scrolling platformers and top-down RPGs. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects. Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation.

Software

Software Simulation Sprite Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Visual Scripting. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Onward to the new 3D renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Nowadays, Godot is a great engine for making 2D games, and the interest of the growing community is starting to move on to 3D, with corresponding needs for improvements. a solid base for the further development of the engine and of Godot games. and extensive work on the HTML5 platform that might be done partly for 3.0

Render

Render Visual Scripting Scripting Feature

Level Design: Crafting Engaging Environments for Your Game

Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It is about creating a visually appealing environment while ensuring the player’s experience is engaging and immersive. Even so, different types of video game-level designs, such as shooter-level design, platformer-level design, puzzle-level design, multiplayer-level design, etc. require a unique approach.

Mechanics

Mechanics Games Playtesting Concepts

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We had 8 students working for on great new features all around the engine, and they reported on their progress regularly on this blog, with a first ( part 1 and part 2 ) and second progress report. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine.

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Engine Games

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

In 2018 we had 5 students working on various features for Godot Engine, and you can read about their work in last year's progress report. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. This is to detect all the different VCS API implementations available with the engine. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Introduction and Unity Lesson 1

Game Designing

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is the welcome video and first lesson from our mini-course on the Unity Game Engine. Learn what the Unity game engine is, how to create an account, set up the software, and start making your first scene. Before we start, I wanted to explain a bit about how this platform works though. Lesson 1: Why Unity Game Engine?

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Engine Game Developer

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvellous Godot Engine 2.1. The most important ones are: New asset sharing platform. comes with our new asset sharing platform, the Asset Library. The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. stable is here! As of the 2.1

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

As mentioned in the first part of this progress report , Godot is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme for the second time, and we have 8 students working on specific projects for Godot Engine. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

Use GDevelop to Make Your Own Games

Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once your game is done, GDevelop lets users publish their games to PC, Web, and Mobile platforms. Both are primarily 2D game engines, and both offer visual scripting engines with optional javascript coding. GDevelop is designed for ease of use with a particular focus on beginner game designers and education.

Games

Games Code Game Developer Game Development

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

How an indie developer realized an out-of-this-world vision for multiplayer video game “Crossfar” using Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

Once I had a playable build of ‘Crossfar,’ I started researching a good place to host the game and a platform that would support growth. In building “Crossfar” on AWS in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, Omidi used both Blueprint visual scripting and custom C++ scripting.

Development

Development Indy Games Build

Game Developers Network

Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Trending Sources

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Onward to the new 3D renderer

Level Design: Crafting Engaging Environments for Your Game

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Introduction and Unity Lesson 1

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Use GDevelop to Make Your Own Games

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

How an indie developer realized an out-of-this-world vision for multiplayer video game “Crossfar” using Amazon GameLift

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