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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Fix Ctrl/Cmd key remapping changes when moving from macOS to other platform ( GH-65241 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. All editor builds for this alpha have been updated with a hotfix. All editor builds for this alpha have been updated with a hotfix. alpha builds. So here we go with 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. and binutils 2.37.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. alpha builds. Core: A plethora of renames!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. What's new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. What’s new.

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2022: A Retrospective

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. The work of Godot 4.0

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About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

As the alpha of Godot 4.0 comes closer and closer, we wanted to spend some words to clarify the direction that Godot 4 has taken in regard of rendering back-ends. The renderer design and all resulting code had to be re-implemented entirely from scratch in order to support Vulkan and modern rendering techniques.

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2022: A Retrospective

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. The work of Godot 4.0

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Alpha Media Bug Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we're happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They decide the game’s type, visual style (2D or 3D), characters, setting, and the platform it will be on. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 alpha1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 26, 2017

We are therefore releasing a first alpha snapshot for existing users to play with and report bugs. IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 Bug reports. There are still many open bug reports for the 3.0 Disclaimer.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we’re happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features.

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Progress report April/May 2017

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time. eska has given Godot's Javascript/HTML5 platform a lot of love over the last few months, ensuring that the new WebGL 2.0-compatible

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Collision Bug Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Bug reports.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Collision Bug Mesh Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The 'server' platform is back as it was in Godot 2.1. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms. Here are some of the more visible bugs fixed in this release. Fixes to HTTP requests on the HTML5 platform.

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Headsup: Vulkan merged, master branch unstable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Support for other platforms will be restored in coming months prior to the 4.0 alpha release. Note that the actual platform ports are of course still included in the latest code, but without a properly setup rendering backend, they don't have anything to show.). branch for maintenance releases (especially bug fixes).

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 release, we decided to take the chance to look at our long list of features and bug fixes that could not be implemented because it involved breaking compatibility. GPU particles.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Headsup: Vulkan merged, master branch unstable

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