Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0 Bug reports.

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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. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Lots of fixes to theme propagation issues, both regressions in the previous alpha 15 and pre-existing bugs that it helped uncover. alpha builds. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. alpha builds. for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 , alpha 3 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. This first alpha build comes relatively late in our planned release schedule, mostly because of work done on our official build infrastructure to adapt to 3.2 release, we are now happy to release Godot 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). What's new.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. Ahead of the game’s first alpha build release in March 2019, Norsfell adopted a backend comprising Amazon API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and Amazon GameLift. “We

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3 We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.4.4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

As the alpha of Godot 4.0 This hardware does not posses enough video memory to run a modern game engine, anyway. Another important way to support Godot 4, other than donating , is to try out the alpha builds as soon as they are out and report all the issues that you encounter. Hello fellow developers! Will Godot 4.0

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution. The level of polish depends on factors like the game engine used and how close it is to the launch date. Coding errors, software compatibility issues, and the need for new gaming engines can feel overwhelming.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a great opportunity to discover Godot if you're not familiar with it yet, get some more experience if you know it already, or get to know some of the other awesome free and open source game engines or frameworks out there such as Phaser , LÖVE or LibGDX. currently at the alpha stage. currently at the alpha stage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rest assured, we plan to publish bugfix releases quickly and regularly (as we have with the Alphas and Betas). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. x” releases).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Testing: Each feature, as well as the mechanics of the game, need to be tested for quality control. Only after endless hours of testing and iterating, the game is considered ready for a late-Alpha or even a Beta release, on the basis of how polished the in-game features are.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. Aside: This whole section strongly reminds me of those who design, build, and expand game engines without actually using them to make a game, though that’s on a different scale altogether.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued in the two months since the 3.4.2 we're now ready to release Godot 3.4.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We used Fracteed's demo to showcase the engine, along with Zylann's Wallrider. Enthusiasts, hobbyists, and even some Unity users looking for an alterative to their game engine! More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. We met a lot of friendly people interested in Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Opacity Micro-Map (OMM) for improving RT performance in scenes with heavy alpha effects. RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) for efficient sampling of a high number of shadow casting and dynamic lights. NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD) for high-performance denoising of all light sources.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. This is very useful for games that may want their logic accelerated by the GPU (such as sandbox or simulation games). Reworked shadow bias settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rest assured, we plan to publish bugfix releases quickly and regularly (as we have with the Alphas and Betas). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. x” releases).

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