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

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. We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.4.2.

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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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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

This improves the fill rate because pixels outside the polygon won't be drawn. This is an important aspect for mobile games. 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.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. To signal to the player that, yes, this box is supposed to be just a box, I had to spend 10 times longer making this box, to ensure every pixel was in place.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can create a good game only through a dedicated software or a game engine. Game App Development Solution The demand for game apps on mobile phones has increased, and many game development companies are interested in developing mobile games. The engine has game physics with the visual editor.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

Superb Graphics with Super Sampling DLSS is an advanced image upscaling technology that uses a deep learning neural network to boost frame rates and produce beautiful, sharp images for games. DLSS is now available in Unreal Engine 4 through our official DLSS UE 4.26

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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. Automatic Configuration and Flash Indicator for automatic configuration of the Reflex Analyzer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? Around 4 years ago, I was learning how to program (in order to do natural language processing) when it suddenly dawned on me that I had probably learned enough to be able to make a game. Each level ends with a gruesome boss. How did you discover Godot? A few come to mind.

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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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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.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. Advancements in 2.5D

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Next, let’s take a look at the common 3D rendering processes in a 3D game engine: Shadow Map Rendering → 3D Objects Rendering → Screen Space Post-Processing → 2D Elements & UI Rendering. As we can see, in Deferred Rendering, the calculation of a pixel’s color is uniformly performed in the lighting phase.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 16, 2018

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? After these functions are well tested, they will be ported to the 3D engine, where they should work in the exact same way. > 0: jumping = false.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

NVIDIA Real-Time Denoiser is a spatio-temporal API agnostic denoising library that’s designed to work with low ray per pixel signals. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super-Sampling) taps into the power of a deep learning neural network to boost frame rates and generate beautiful, sharp images for your games.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game? Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath.

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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?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Leveraging PocoDriver for Game Test Automation: PocoDriver is an open-source cross-engine UI automation framework which supports Unity, Unreal, cocos2dx-, Android native APP, iOS native APP, and other game engines SDK.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds (new in 3.2.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Editor: Improve 3-to-4 converter performance and add option to set maximum line length to prevent freezes ( GH-64396 ). Editor: Add bezier preset and refactor bezier editor ( GH-64647 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Porting: Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows ( GH-65283 ). The Web editor build is not functional yet. Implement MSAA for 2D with Vulkan. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Text: Add sub-pixel glyph positioning support ( GH-57877 ). 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. Rendering: Add ParticleShader Userdata ( GH-58088 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. Godot uses clustered decals, so the cost is very low (the pixel is shaded only once and there are no extra draw calls for each decal). Reworked shadow bias settings.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Designed to work with low ray per pixel signals, the NRD is a spatio-temporal API agnostic denoising library. adds sample permutations into the temporal properties of the ReSTIR signal, as well as new RTXGI and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integrations. It also provides support for rendering a denoiser confidence signal from RTXDI.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

const vec3 weight = vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722); vec3 Grayscale(in vec3 o, float value){ float lumin = dot(o, weight); vec3 final = mix(o, vec3(lumin), value); return final; } vec4 frag() { vec4 pixel = texture(mainTexture, v_uv); pixel.rgb = Grayscale(pixel.rgb, intensity); return pixel; } 2. Preview to see the effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Atlas cells are assigned according to their size in pixels on the screen (e.g. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next. Shadow atlases exist for Spot and Omni lights (Directional uses its own texture, and multiple directional lights need several passes). Implement more PBR parameters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). LSP: Prevent LSP adding signal callbacks to non GDScripts ( GH-55624 ). macOS: Fix crash on DualShock 4 joypad removal ( GH-55034 ).

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Avoid the Monster.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. Any feature that requires reading adjacent pixels requires a pass to be finished. We're looking at Android and native Oculus Quest support for the near future. This however comes at a tradeoff.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). LSP: Prevent LSP adding signal callbacks to non GDScripts ( GH-55624 ). macOS: Fix crash on DualShock 4 joypad removal ( GH-55034 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Edit 2021-12-22: One regression has been found which causes flickering on macOS (affects both using the editor on macOS, and games exported to macOS).

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