Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

To explain the idea of how shaders work, let's consider a very simple shader for drawing a sprite to the screen. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. Multiply by 2. Substract (1, 1). 1 range for drawing).

Shaders

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

Beta

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

This guide will help you pick the best software to create amazing effects and take your games to the next level. 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.

Software

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is an in-built asset loader that enables animation sprite loading, sprite sheets, and many other features that are useful for creating functional games. Engine Chris Colbert’s Kiwi.js The platform is useful for creating WebGL-rendered games for desktop and mobile devices. When running Kiwi.js

Games

Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Drawing a Spine-friendly character means you also need to draw parts of images that are normally obscured, as the visibility can change as the sprite moves. Smaller size - Spine animations store only the bone data, hence their loading and rendering is stable and fast, even on mobile devices like Android or iOS.

Animation

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To ensure high performance, it’s crucial to limit the number of particles rendered at any given time. Additionally, employing sprite sheets can help manage particles efficiently by combining multiple images into a single texture, minimizing draw calls and improving performance.

Mobile Gaming

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

Tile

Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

If you look back at the evolution of gaming, you will notice a huge technological advancement over time. Due to equipment limitations, early games like Donkey Kong and Hollow Knight were limited to 2D graphics. These games used 2D sprites, with each frame presenting a specific pose. Advancements in 2.5D

Animation

The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a game engine, Unity provides a lot of functionality right out of the box. You could make some really fun physics based games and not need to have a math degree to do it! In fact, in this lesson we will start creating game objects that react to physics, with no programming required. Move the Wall beneath the Ball.

Collision

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Today, we have invited wing , an experienced Cocos game developer in our Cocos community to share some technical key points related to 2D post-effect frameworks. Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. What are Post-processing Effects?

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ). All users are advised to upgrade to Godot 3.4.2

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ). TextEdit: Allow toggling bookmark gutter ( GH-55197 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ). iOS: Capture and display xcodebuild output ( GH-54711 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2

Debug

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. Improved 2D lighting. CanvasGroup.

Engineering

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. renderer was removed. renderer was removed. Revamped inspector.

Feature

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

OpenGameArt: Another excellent resource for free game assets, OpenGameArt focuses on 2D graphics and audio. Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community.

Game Development

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. Some of the larger engines have bloat that irritates me aesthetically.

Development

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Changing sprite textures, colors, animation frames, calling functions, playing animations in other animation players, playing sounds, etc.

Cinematics

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. and no WASM.)

Sprite