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Harmony Games Deploys a Fully Custom Game Backend Utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

The second was partnering with a third-party Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform (a common choice for startup game studios), but Harmony found the solutions difficult to customize for their game. “We Their first game, Domino Adventures, is set for global release in 2025, with a beta launch targeted for Q3 2024.

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Tile Development Cross platform Games

Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs

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. You can sell your game or offer it for free.

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We want to encourage the quick embrace of GDeflate as a data-parallel compression standard, facilitating its adoption across the PC ecosystem and on other platforms. We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

Tile

Tile Data Content Games

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. Accessibility is taking center stage, making the gaming world a welcoming space for everyone. But that’s not all! And guess what?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. Editor: Make keyboard shortcuts in tile data editors consistent with tilemap editor ( GH-71517 ). x version ( GH-71137 ).

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Beta Dev Debug Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Bullet Physics backend. IPv6 support.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, In the vein of larger game engines, Godot has now live editing support. Live scene editing.

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Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). 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 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). 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 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). 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 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). 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 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Import: Backport improved glTF module with scene export support ( GH-49120 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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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 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ).

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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 ).

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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 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Currently, mobile and web platforms are not available, with support likely coming in Godot 4.1. also comes with a fully working headless mode (no rendering or audio output, supported on all platforms!), You can probably build half a game with tiles alone! Web platform. GDExtension. With the GDScript 2.0

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Beta Engine Engineering Feature

I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

I also create all the social media posts for Pangea Games, including the weird cheese question. Tabletop Simulator is a physics-based board game engine which you can buy on Steam. With over 30,000 games, it’s the biggest platform to play all your favorite games. It’s entirely up to you.

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Simulation Games Demo Playtesting

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen? and no WASM.)

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Sprite Simulation Build Code

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

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

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

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I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

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