Game Industry News

JUNE 11, 2021

Gameplay: In a radical departure from the previous game which emulated Rogue, this is a much more typical side scrolling platformer like Sonic or Mario. Art: The art is very pixelated, but that’s fine because it stands the test of time much better than any 3D Rendered game that came out later. Platforms: Sega Genesis.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. We released Godot 3.4.1 Godot 3.4.2

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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. Balancing quality and performance is done by controlling the game’s internal rendering resolution.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. The simplicity of the 2D style laid the foundation for gameplay mechanics and player interactions, particularly in platformers and side-scrollers. The environment is added with depth and volume for realism.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. We’ve also done a significant code and API refactor and expanded RTXGI’s footprint with added support to Linux, Vulkan, and Arm platforms. The Sun Temple scene from ORCA rendered in real time using RTXDI. RTX Direct Illumination 1.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. render meshes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

What used to be a few lines of OpenGL/GLX code is a large amount of Vulkan extension code to handle initialization and creation of rendering surfaces. Up to now, it was impossible to do any internal modifications to how Godot does rendering. this was not possible without modifying Godot's rendering backend. Architecture changes.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 29, 2019

has various optimisations added to speed up the stereoscopic rendering. Collabora showed off their Monado OpenXR platform with a demo using an early OpenXR plugin for Godot made by the people behind OpenHMD. Microsoft Windows MR. Unfortunately direct support for the WMR platform is still missing from Godot. With Godot 3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Primal Light is a linear 2D action platformer for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. Hi, I’m Shane Sicienski. A few come to mind.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

February As part of our social media expansion, we also created an official Godot Engine account on the streaming platform Twitch. Until Then Nominated for a plethora of awards, the visual novel Until Then tells the emotional story of the highschooler Mark in polished pixel art. July The Godot robot plushies took the internet by storm.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Fix viewport sorting being wrong on parent/child relation ( GH-63091 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ).

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

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. Other Specialized 2D Tools Pyxel Edit For games that use retro pixel art, Pyxel Edit is a must-have tool. Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Buildsystem: Refactor handling of production flag and per-platform LTO defaults ( GH-65745 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ). See the issue for a potential workaround.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor: Fix import of AtlasTextures with semi-transparent pixels ( GH-35363 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). Notable changes since RC 2: Android: Virtual keyboard now respects LineEdit max length ( GH-35438 ). Core/Editor: Various memory leaks fixed.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. Rendering: Unified 2D batching.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Flaneer is a cloud-based animation production platform that offers an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution for studios of all sizes. Additionally, AWS provides access to powerful GPUs, which are necessary for rendering high-quality animations. If you need, you can also launch a rendering from Flaneer’s workstation.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cel shading can be described as a technique that gives any 3D or 2D rendering a cartoonish or hand-drawn effect. Cel shading animation, often misspelled as cell shading, looks good on multiple platforms without losing its quality, resolution, scalability, and overall quality, making it a top choice for many. What Is Cel Shading?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Although raster (pixel based) occlusion culling will not be available until Godot 4, some geometrical occlusion methods are being added to Godot 3. More rendering improvements.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2D animation is also called vector-based because it is made with vectors instead of pixels. There is a long list of 2D animation software and platforms a game animator needs. Mark Of The Ninja, a stealth-based platform game. In contrast to 2D animation, in 3D an animator uses pixels and works with length, width, and depth.

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