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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4 meaning that Godot 4.4

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

When to profile: - Before making system changes - After adding new features - When releasing on different platforms Key Profiler Segments: - GPU Usage: Analyzes GPU workload for visual-heavy games. Monitoring your application regularly helps avoid complex problems that will become more difficult to resolve in the future.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. by calling queue_free() ) but is still accessed somewhere else in a script. release, adding an AESContext to provide a scripting interface to AES-ECB and AES-CBC encryption/decryption methods. Crypto: AES and HMAC contexts. ACES Fitted tonemapper.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

UI/UX artist A UI/UX artist creates the visual aspects of a game’s user interface, menus, icons and other interactive components. They come up with ways to present the game plot, work out the script and plan the game levels. Similarly, the powerups in the game are designed to entice and motivate gamers to continue playing.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Art Prop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Our architecture is also being designed to be a platform for game devs looking for a great place to test, experiment, showcase, or browse other developers' ideas. Construct your scenes however, and they’ll work – it’s the definition of a “scripted game”. file and create a script that extends NPCBase and contains your custom functions.

Build

Build NPC Sandbox Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Device-Based Compatibility Testing Solutions to Look for in Your Game QA Partner

iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It helps you identify and fix issues to ensure the game runs smoothly, delivering a seamless user experience (UX). Device-based compatibility testing is one of the testing approaches adopted by testers to check if the game runs effectively across different devices, platforms, and configurations. Let’s find out.

Simulation

Simulation Games Communications UX

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun. Project: Improvements To Visual Scripting System. Visual Script graph unification. The graph for the Visual Script has been unified , that is, all the functions are shown in the graph simultaneously.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. The integrated script editor in Godot lacks features found in editors like VS Code, Sublime, Emacs, etc. The cache pool is filled at the startup by parsing all scripts in the workspace for script symbols and loading native symbols from DocData.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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). This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D animators: Maya 3D Studio Max After Effects MotionBuilder Mudbox Premier Cinema 4D LightWave Real-time engine (such as Unreal or Unity) 3D animation jobs in the industry 3D animators can work on live-action projects (VFX), fully animated projects, virtual production, and video games (all platforms).

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). After refining our Godot 3.2

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Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Beta Dev Bug Debug

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

branch, we will keep maintaining it with relevant bug fixes and platform-specific changes in the coming months (notably with a 3.1.3 added support for exporting projects to desktop platforms (Linux, macOS and Windows). We did our best to preserve compatibility between 3.1 For users who choose to stay on the 3.1 maintenance release).

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). stable build.

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Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). stable build.

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Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). stable in a day or two.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

This will enable us to publish maintenance updates at a faster pace as soon as we identify a need (critical regressions to fix, security issues, necessary platform updates, etc.). Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! One notable change is that there is now support for both threads and GDNative in the HTML5 platform port.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. Unfortunately, we ran into some issues in the X11 platform that are very difficult to fix, and X11 is an extremely difficult API to work with (requiring a combination of text based atomics with manually marshalled data) that requires years of experience.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

GTA VI Looks Great, but Online It’s the Real Topic (Opinion)

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Yes, part of GTA V's enduring success is due to its great single-player experience and re-releases on multiple platforms. The narrative, theme choices, and visual quality received widespread praise, hinting a fantastic single-player experience. However, in the long run that may not be that relevant. But that’s not the whole story.

Sandbox

Sandbox UX Content Build

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Device-Based Compatibility Testing Solutions to Look for in Your Game QA Partner

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

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

Godot core budget meeting report #1

GTA VI Looks Great, but Online It’s the Real Topic (Opinion)

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