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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Internship recruiting season has begun for some large game publishers and developers. If you’re a student and you have an interest in game development as a career, you should absolutely look into these. This means that a number of internship opportunities for summer 2025 have been posted and will be collecting applicants.

Co-op

Co-op Game Developer Game Development Development

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same.

Game Designer

Game Designer Game Design Art Prop

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

“Put that planet to the left!”

Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

User experience in VR games. Creating a video game is a real adventure full of interesting problems to solve and unexpected twists and turns. So today we’re going to talk about UX (user experience) in virtual reality games and tell you about the most interesting solutions we used in our game Stargaze!

UX

UX Puzzle Animation Animation

Game Sound and Visual Effects Testing: A Complete Guide

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Imagine playing a game with distorted sound or visual effects. This will likely affect your gaming experience in a significant way. For instance, if the sound and the visual effects are not in synch, the player will experience a terrible game. But what should you consider in-game sound and visual effects testing?

Bug

Bug Games Platformer Mechanics

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We also discussed a proposal to further clean up the documentation and clearly separate more game-specific tutorials, as well as having a clearer way to link to content generated by our community. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 19, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). we currently don't plan to port the 2D batching to it.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Merging atlases will automatically gather tiles from all atlases and create a new one with its associated new texture. This allows using layers as if they were on different height for top-down games. Aside from a lot of bug fixes and small UX improvements, all tiles-related classes are now documented. What's next.

Tile

Tile Collision Editing Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Leadership Executive Producer (aka Game Director ) - The mastermind in charge of the entire project. Texture Artist : 3D wire frames need skins that make them look right in various lighting situations. Environment Artist : Models, textures, and places the stuff in the game levels. Test Engineer : QA/Programmer hybrid.

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. You can join the translation effort on Weblate and help bring high quality localized documentation to game developers all over the world! C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

Collision

Collision Baking Lightmap Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Since Godot is gradually entering the competitive market, dominated by only a handful of fully featured engines, it is only intuitive that it should support Godot game developers with a strong version control integration from within the editor. Introduction. How does it look like? Project overview and what I have done so far.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

Art

Art Studios Animation Animation

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

What are common keywords any game design resume should include?

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Here are some examples: Common Experience, craft, create, live, season, update, content, schedule, create, design, team, player, UX. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on BlueSky Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

Co-op

Co-op Game Designer Game Design UX

Game Developers Network

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

Trending Sources

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

“Put that planet to the left!”

Game Sound and Visual Effects Testing: A Complete Guide

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Tiles editor progress report #5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

What are common keywords any game design resume should include?

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