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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

This feature being implemented at the core of the engine means that all scripting languages (GDScript, C#, C++) can take advantage by interfacing with Godots Dictionary type. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Import 4.4

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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Optimizing Scripting: Reduce Overhead & Boost Efficiency Key Issues & Solutions - Update() Overhead: Multiple objects invoke Update() reduce performance. Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

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Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. UI/UX artist A UI/UX artist creates the visual aspects of a game’s user interface, menus, icons and other interactive components.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

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“Put that planet to the left!”

Played with Fire

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! Good UX practices for VR. That’s why we gathered all the best UX practices we know, all based on the example of Stargaze. Stargaze – cosmic VR game.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

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