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In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Animators typically count things in terms of frames. Some designers care about frames specifically too, but engineers and designers generally use milliseconds or decimal seconds (e.g. seconds) to describe how long something should be. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Unigine 2.18 Released

Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Released The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.18. This release is packed with new features including Direct3D 12 and Vulkan being default renderers, massive performance improvements across the board, new animation and rendering tools and much more. GameFromScratch.com Unigine 2.18 Highlight features of the Unigine 2.18

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Tim Sweeney believes the metaverse is "happening for real"

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 22, 2023

Epic Games showcased its vision for a metaverse at today’s State of Unreal, during which it unveiled more details about the economy around its Unreal Editor for Fortnite , a new unified marketplace, Fab, which offers assets across several game engines, new Metahumans animation tools, and more.

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Unreal Engine 5.3 Released

Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.3 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 Released Read More The post Unreal Engine 5.3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.

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Dragon Bone probem

Cocos

APRIL 9, 2023

Which game engine did your resource load and display the animation properly? Can you provide a screenshot of the code that loads the animation? We can’t see the animations when we import your resource into DragonBones editor.

Animation

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Introducing onion skinning for the Godot game engine

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

This helps animators have a much greater deal of control on repositioning objects on every frame. Right on time before Beta Freeze, our superstar contributor Pedro Estebanez completed Onion Skinning support! This implementation is really good, and allows visualizing future and past frames. More can be read about this work in Pedro's Blog.

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

Cutscenes

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ). GH-59810 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tokage greatly optimized the animation blend tree process, which should give a nice performance boost on complex animations ( GH-68593 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ). GH-68805 ). Jump to the Downloads section. specifically.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Animation: Allow AnimationStateMachine / AnimationNode to restart when transitioning to the same state ( GH-71418 ).

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Best Online Game Development Solutions for Your Smartphones

Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can create a good game only through a dedicated software or a game engine. Game App Development Solution The demand for game apps on mobile phones has increased, and many game development companies are interested in developing mobile games. Therefore, this tool is most favored by artists.

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Art Production for Mobile Games: Tips & Tricks

iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Suppose you are designing artwork for a puzzle game, a minimalist art style with simple shapes and clean lines will suffice as they assist players in concentrating on the gameplay. Embrace simplicity To make your mobile game successful, it’s crucial to create artwork that is both easy to understand and fast to load.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

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In this age of remasters, something I appreciate with The Master Chief Collection is how you can switch between old and new graphics instantaneously. Can you explain how this mechanic works? Big thanks!

Ask a Game Dev

MAY 23, 2023

Once upon a time, back in the ancient years of 2009 and 2010, Bungie was developing its final Halo game - Halo: Reach - with intentions to then go their own way. Microsoft created a new studio named 343 Industries to take over after the split from Bungie. Halo Anniversary (2011) was the first appearance of the classic graphics toggle feature.

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Spotlight: Convai Reinvents Non-Playable Character Interactions

Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai believes in pushing the state of the art and enabling its users to experience the best in gaming. Some of the fundamental blocks for realistic AI NPCs are facial animations, lip synchronization, and emotion control for the character’s voices, all of which needs to be generated in real time during gameplay.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. Free 3D Asset Libraries Sketchfab: This vast platform hosts a staggering collection of free and paid 3D models, textures, and animations from various creators. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ). GH-59810 ).

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details.

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How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). 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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

From Concept to Success: A Deep Dive Into Our Popular Gaming Solutions

Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Our Gaming Solutions Can Transform Your Next Gaming Project In the competitive gaming industry, our services and solutions maximize the chances of a game’s success by focusing on the features, functionalities, and overall quality of the game. Read more on how we do that.

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How to build immersive gaming experiences with AR/VR game development

iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

And one of the primary considerations is the game engine and the tools on which the game is built. Game Engines, SDKs, and Modeling Software Some of the popular game engines used for VR include Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. Sound design is critical for an immersive gaming experience.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Audio: Disable OGG and MP3 looping by default on import ( GH-71858 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Make cubic_interpolate() consider key time in animation ( GH-63602 ). Animation: Improve animation track optimizer ( GH-64132 ). for instructions.

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Unreal engine ArchViz – How UE is Revolutionizing the Architecture Industry?

Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs.

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Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. We want Godot to be accessible to programmers, animators, and character artists. Godot Engine team - [link].

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Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Game Design Elements You Don't Want to Forget!

DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Remember to add shadows and highlights, to each layer, and then, merge the layers, before exporting the file and bringing it into the game engine. You really need, at the very least, a background layer, mid-ground layer, and fore-ground layer in your 2D game, so that it gives it that professional look. Start your game engines!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Implement animation libraries ( GH-59980 ). Animation: Import scenes as AnimationLibrary ( GH-60177 ). Animation: Make Tween.interpolate_value() static ( GH-60331 ). See the changelog on GitHub for an overview of all changes since 4.0

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Godot Showcase - Friday Night Funkin' VR developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? All my life I've wanted to make video games, so I've dabbled in quite a few game engines, but most things I tried to make as a kid didn't get finished. I started trying to make complete game projects in high school with Unity, but I became frustrated using it.

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The Showdown: Unity Vs. Godot Vs. Buildbox Vs Unreal Engine

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. .

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4. These factors include improvements in graphics, lighting, physics, animation, and scalability. What is the Unreal Engine? Below are some of the distinct factors between Unreal Engine 5 and 4: 1.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

Beta

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Creating Your First 3D Character Animation in Unity

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. Unity is one of the most popular cross-platform tools that help deploy games on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, and others. This makes it easier to identify and animate objects in Unity.

Animation

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tokage greatly optimized the animation blend tree process, which should give a nice performance boost on complex animations ( GH-68593 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ). GH-68805 ). Jump to the Downloads section. specifically.

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

David Olamide’s joyous journey that led to an internship in his own company

PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

The studio describes the game as a ‘African Fantasy Action Adventure Role Playing game’ During his second year of university, inspired by a senior colleague turned friend and future co-founder’s project, Olamide switched game engines “I remember going to Ewere’s room and seeing the Unreal engine on his PC.

Balance

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Cocos Runtime, the technical foundation for mini-game platforms

Cocos

JANUARY 12, 2024

Led by seasoned experts in the fields of game engines and operating systems, Cocos Runtime has undergone continuous iteration for nearly 7 years, releasing dozens of online versions. Additionally, a set of essential JS-related interfaces for game execution was implemented using the V8 engine.

Platformer

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In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

Unigine 2.18 Released

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Tim Sweeney believes the metaverse is "happening for real"

Unreal Engine 5.3 Released

2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

Dragon Bone probem

Introducing onion skinning for the Godot game engine

Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Best Online Game Development Solutions for Your Smartphones

Art Production for Mobile Games: Tips & Tricks

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

In this age of remasters, something I appreciate with The Master Chief Collection is how you can switch between old and new graphics instantaneously. Can you explain how this mechanic works? Big thanks!

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

From Concept to Success: A Deep Dive Into Our Popular Gaming Solutions

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Unreal engine ArchViz – How UE is Revolutionizing the Architecture Industry?

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Game Design Elements You Don't Want to Forget!

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 7

Godot Showcase - Friday Night Funkin' VR developer talks about his experience

The Showdown: Unity Vs. Godot Vs. Buildbox Vs Unreal Engine

5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

David Olamide’s joyous journey that led to an internship in his own company

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