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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. A more complex example can be a rigid body with a sprite attached, in typical ECS, this is found as an entity containing: Transform. Sprite (Node -> Node2D -> Sprite). This is a common form of data-oriented optimization.

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

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.

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Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence 

iXie gaming

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.

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Top 5 HTML5 Game Frameworks to Choose 

iXie gaming

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

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ).

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

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?

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Making shaders more accessible

Mircosoft Game Dev

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).

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