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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter. Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Porting fixes to Embedded/Floating Window mode The Embedded/Floating game window option added in 4.4 With some further fixes like GH-102424 , GH-102497 , and GH-102477 , lightmap baking got a nice upgrade in this snapshot.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Additionally, Godot 4.0 The answer is “it depends”.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Easy to use.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

Radiator Blog

In addition to color, Barragán's brutalism offers another lesson for video game levels: sometimes you must have the courage to let a wall be a wall. In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. How can you go back?

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.