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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Cars/people in city simulators, where thousands appear all across the city. Sandbox style simulations. Visual scripting. While Godot had visual scripting in the past, we found that the form we had implemented didn’t really prove adequate for the needs of the community, so it was discontinued.

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

Visual effects (VFX) are essential for making gaming experiences immersive and exciting. They include everything from 2D particle effects to realistic 3D simulations. Today’s VFX artists use advanced tools to create real-time particle systems, complex simulations, and stunning visuals that captivate players.

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Godot's new high level networking preview is up!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Distributed simulation. To compensate for this problem, the most common approach nowadays is to "distribute" the simulation between peers. Generally, each peer will simulate the part of the game "closer" to it. At 60 fps, a computer renders a frame in 0.016 seconds. Using the Master/Slave model efficiently.

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Introduction and Unity Lesson 1

Game Designing

Kind of like visual scripting, which Unity doesn’t support by default or the others do, but you can download something from the Unity Asset Store in order to bypass the need to program things on your own. Unity is just extremely flexible, and it can do more than you probably thought of when you were going into this tutorial.

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Use GDevelop to Make Your Own Games

Game Designing

Some of the highlights include Spell Unka by Spexxy, a classic arcade-style game in the vein of Dig-Dug, and //TO:DO a game that simulates GDevelop’s own interface, challenging users to complete the game themselves using their knowledge of GDevelop events. The official repository of user-made Gdevelop games can be found at [link].

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

Unreal Engine, on the other hand, provides a choice between C++ programming and Blueprint visual scripting. Kerbal Space Program This is a popular simulation game developed by Squad and released in 2015. Unity developers can use several languages, but C# is the primary one.