Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2025

You can get the game on Steam , and follow the developers on Bluesky and YouTube. We tracked this down to the introduction of the fade_start property, which made some changes to the shader. It is developed by Placeholder Gameworks. compared to 3.5. We were able to fix this up with some modifications. or earlier 3.5.x

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2025

Julien Kaspar and Simon Thommes from the Blender Studio team tell us about their experience developing their first Godot game: Dogwalk. The game is already out on Steam , Itch.io , and you can also get the project files with tons of extras from their website. So for a game project it seemed natural to use Godot for it.

Animation

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2025

However, scripts and shaders are not imported resources and they are plain text formats, without any Godot-specific information stored within. In practice, this meant that UIDs could be used for scenes and most resources, but not scripts and shaders. Whats changing with UIDs in Godot 4.4 For example, if you have some_file.gd

Shaders

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

The cover illustration is from Fortune Avenue , a capitalism simulator where you shrewdly extort and outmaneuver your friends in a chaotic, board-game environment. You can wishlist the game on Steam and follow the developers on Bluesky. Porting: Android: Add support for Mute Game toggle ( GH-104409 ).

Dev

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Developed by Nachosama Games , the game was recently released on Steam. Highlights Mute Game toggle Previously, if a developer wished to mute the audio while testing in the editor, they had to either use the operating systems builtin tools for sound or outright pause/close their work. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

Dev

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam or itch.io , and follow the developers on Bluesky. Rendering: D3D12: Fix shader model check, initialization error handling ( GH-108919 ). If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. have a look at the highlights for 4.5

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. Whether its a photorealistic RPG or a stylized indie game, every visual element follows a structured journey from concept to integration.

Concepts

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Porting fixes to Embedded/Floating Window mode The Embedded/Floating game window option added in 4.4 Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ). Highlights For an overview of whats new overall in Godot 4.4,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Developed by James Dornan, the game was released on Steam in January 2025. Editor: Replace error to info messages for embedded game ( GH-103339 ). Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Highlights We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.4

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

The cover illustration is from The Roottrees are Dead , a detective game where you piece together a family trees billion-dollar paper trail through the power of a dial-up modem! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky. Editor: Add editor setting to globally override project game mode settings ( GH-101283 ).

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GameDev.Net

JUNE 17, 2025

For example, in my little game engine project, I have various asset types: Mesh, Texture, Shader, etc., I am very bad at creating abstractions, and as I read more into the topic, I think my problem is that I create abstractions based on the identity or concept, which I don't think is the correct thought process?

Mesh

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

Ray Tracing

Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given. If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given pass.

Shaders

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

AAA

iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Unity is synonymous with game developers around the world. Ever since its release in 2005, the game engine has seen several iterations and has evolved significantly over the years. The game engine has amassed popularity thanks to its versatility and ease of use compared to other engines in the market.

Shaders

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

About shaders. For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. In reality, shaders are quite simple by default and just get more complex the more you add to them. Shaders in Godot. Configuration parameters are sent via uniforms.

Shaders

Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). For more information, see the Shader Execution Reordering whitepaper.

Ray Tracing

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. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline? What challenges did you face in the process of integrating USD?

Game Developer

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

Game Engine

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Note that you need to force recompiling your affected visual shaders by doing any change in their graph. Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ). Shaders: Fix shader include dependency handling ( GH-71878 ).

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Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

I was completely immersed in rewriting my game engine when I stumbled upon these captivating images. I was a bit hesitant to take a detour from my engine and modify the renderer. See, there were several things that I needed to change in my engine. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Also check out Raffaele's Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. Finally, the method does not rely on self-intersection rejection using an any-hit shader and has a fixed overhead per shading point. In the user shader, the object-space hit point is reconstructed and transformed into world-space.

Ray Tracing

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. The constraints of mobile hardware demand innovative solutions to ensure games not only look stunning but also run smoothly.

Mobile Gaming

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). What's new.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

Mesh

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

Ray Tracing

Game Errors

JULY 17, 2023

Are you disappointed that games crashing on ROG Ally makes your handheld console useless? If so, we invite you to dive deep with us as we explore potential causes and pair them with solutions to bring stability back to games on ROG Ally. Why are games crashing on ROG Ally? Why are games crashing on ROG Ally?

FPS

Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

For a long time, the first version of my game engine lacked a UI. My goal for next week is to focus on fixing the Disney shaders and Lighting. One of the activities that I strongly dislike is creating a User-Interface. The only reason it had one was out of necessity, not because I enjoyed developing one. Thanks for reading.

Render

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

Game Developer

iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Unity has rapidly risen in popularity to become one of the most widely used game production engines throughout the globe. In this article, we will discuss the factors that contribute to Unity’s continued dominance in the game development industry. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine.

Game Developer

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Also check out Raffaele’s Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The game started development with Godot 3.x, Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). You can also try the Web editor (early testing, it's still slow and unstable). x, and was recently ported to 4.0 beta, with the process covered in this devlog.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

Concepts

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What's new. If you're interested in an overview of what's new in Godot 4.0

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