Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

The illustration picture for this article comes from Book Bound , a cozy bookshop simulator game by Bit66 Games, which was recently released on Steam. You can follow the developer on Bluesky , and wishlist their other upcoming game Bots & Mods. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Artists use multiple texture maps, including: Diffuse maps (base colours) Normal maps (simulating surface detail) Roughness & metallic maps (controlling reflections and material properties) Example: Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 use PBR workflows to create stunningly realistic textures that react dynamically to weather and lighting.

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Game Development for Beginners

MAY 19, 2023

Unity 3D is a powerful and widely used cross-platform game engine for game development.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Developers simulate high-traffic conditions and see if the system can cope with the expected number of players. This allows them to identify any bottlenecks or issues before the service is used for an actual game release. The key AWS services involved are: AWS Fargate – Serverless compute engine for containerized workloads.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

This is needed for some types of game mechanics such as: Projectiles (bullet hell for example). Units in some types of strategy games with thousands of entitites roaming across a map. Cars/people in city simulators, where thousands appear all across the city. Sandbox style simulations. Flocks, swarms, mobs, debris, etc.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Visual effects (VFX) are essential for making gaming experiences immersive and exciting. They include everything from 2D particle effects to realistic 3D simulations. Today’s VFX artists use advanced tools to create real-time particle systems, complex simulations, and stunning visuals that captivate players.

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

We recommend that you pause your game time and do not move the camera to avoid this possibility. If the wantMoreFrames Boolean never turns false in your case, even after you have paused all simulations, you can fall back to looking at whether the GPU timings in your game HUD appear to have settled.

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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. It is developed by Binogure Studio. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Harvest Island is a single-player farming simulator that allows players to farm, fish and pet all sorts of animals to their heart’s content. Something truly horrifying… Creator Kevin Le, working under the name of Yobob Games , carefully chose to combine a farming simulator with horror elements, after doing market research.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

While he loves teaching coding to students of all levels, he has worked hard on our latest experimental course, Elite Game Engine. Gabe develops models of worlds powered by the coding language C++ to test and simulate how rugged electric vehicles would handle the terrain.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Non-real-time simulation, which is enabled using the --fixed-fps command line argument. References. Original pull request.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD is an open-scene description with APIs for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Non-real-time simulation, which is enabled using the --fixed-fps command line argument. References. Original pull request.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The NVIDIA Reflex SDK offers developers: Low Latency Mode – Aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating the GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure in GPU-bound scenarios, thus reducing latency in GPU bound scenarios. Get Started with NVIDIA Reflex >

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 20, 2023

Complete Project Details Game Genre Business simulation App Platform Web, iOS and Android Time Duration of Project 10 months Our Team on Project Project Manager - 1 Architects - 1 Tester - 1 3D Designers - 3 Front-end Developer - 3 Back-end Developer - 3 Built With Unity game engine for front-end development Node.js

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Available now, Kickstart RT makes it easier than ever to add real-time ray tracing to game engines, producing realistic reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Traditionally, game engines must bind all active materials in a scene. Learn more about Kickstart RT.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

From NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) to RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), our latest tools and technologies are helping game developers create realistic and stunning virtual worlds for gamers. NVIDIA DLSS Overview & Game Integrations This session will cover the technology that makes DLSS possible.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 16, 2023

To call the Unreal engine a cornerstone of the games industry is not an understatement. Perhaps, one of the most popular game engines in the market, Unreal has been around since the advent of 3d graphics in games.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). All the content in the game was just data in fields. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.”

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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. Developers can also easily build advanced 3D tools and expand their ecosystem reach.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. The game releases into Early Access on April 13th, 2022 for Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, and in the near future macOS. You can find it on Steam and GOG.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest. Selectable per instance type.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness. Additionally to being able to simulate skin more correctly, it also supports transmittance, so light that comes from behind will spread towards the front by scattering below the surface. This is changing in 4.0, New Subsurface Scattering. In Godot 4.0,

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Game automation testing aims to address these challenges by leveraging automation tools and scripts. Automated game testing involves creating scripts or using testing frameworks to simulate player interactions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and UI interactions. Examples: Game Driver, Poco Driver, Alt Unity 2.3.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is the welcome video and first lesson from our mini-course on the Unity Game Engine. Learn what the Unity game engine is, how to create an account, set up the software, and start making your first scene. Really cool game development stuff and I’m excited to share all of it with you. All for free.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 11, 2022

The reason I had to think about this was because of the game’s engine limits. I chose planting on certain areas because of the game engine’s limitations. 4) Designing a fun gameplay around the farming mechanic and if it can support the story of the game. And I still blame it on the engine.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Uses techniques like key framing, rigging, motion capture, and simulations to show movement. However, while 2D is more resource-friendly, 3D is beneficial for some gaming genres: Realistic InteractionThe 3D animating technique is beneficial for delivering natural and believable interactions between characters and the game world.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It helps you detect bugs and glitches that may negatively impact the players’ gaming experience. Also, you may not be able to simulate player behaviors accurately. Generative AI can help during game testing by simulating player behavior and identifying bugs in real time. This accelerates the testing process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Physics: Fix ragdoll simulation when parent was readded to scene ( GH-48823 ). 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. We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.3.2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

OpenXR support for Metal ( GH-98872 ) has been added, improving the developer experience for MacOS developers using the Meta XR Simulator. Support for the PICO 4 Ultra is also in progress and will be available soon. In particular, any change that would cause a regression in your projects is very important to report (e.g.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Multiple Bounces: Enable a feedback loop, which simulates multiple bounce lighting. keeps improving and we are fully commited to create an amazing game engine, that you can use with the same freedom as as if it was your own in-house tech. Will write an article about this soon.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2 Reflex Reflex SDK allows developers to implement a low latency mode that aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure. later this year. Learn more here.

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