Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. 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 ). Animation: AnimatedSprite2D and AnimatedSprite3D improvements ( GH-65609 ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Game automation testing aims to address these challenges by leveraging automation tools and scripts. Automated game testing involves creating scripts or using testing frameworks to simulate player interactions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and UI interactions. Even minor changes can break automation scripts.

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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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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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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 ). Editor: Increase default size of docks ( GH-71627 ).

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

It was difficult to keep and share the UI states with the reaction timeline of the game or even data prop drilling around. While developing a web game engine in a former studio, I came to learn about the Flux pattern introduced by Facebook in 2015 , which greatly improved the engine and game DX.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Modern games have high-quality sounds, animations, and visuals. Manually testing such games can be time-consuming, delaying their release to the market. And that’s where video game test automation comes in handy. This ensures particular aspects of the game are tested, enhancing game consistency.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Access to Custom and Full Source Code With Unreal engine, you can build a custom-made engine that bests suit your requirements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Animation: Cast between float and ints in Tween tween_property() ( GH-65072 ). GDNative: Fix script_data error when updating placeholder scripts for GDNative libraries ( GH-66255 ). GDScript: Fix Script editor completion doesn't suggest members of a script for type hints ( GH-48037 ). Here are the main changes since 3.5.1-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). Editor: Allow directly instantiate scripts in scene tree ( GH-68648 ). Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). Core: Move z_index , z_as_relative and y_sort_enabled from Node2D to CanvasItem ( GH-68070 ).

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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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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. C#: Annotate API with [MustBeVariant] ( GH-72057 ).

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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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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. GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

Animation: Cast between float and ints in Tween tween_property() ( GH-65072 ). GDNative: Fix script_data error when updating placeholder scripts for GDNative libraries ( GH-66255 ). GDScript: Fix Script editor completion doesn't suggest members of a script for type hints ( GH-48037 ). Here are the main changes since 3.5.1-stable:

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). The illustration picture is from The Adventure of NAYU , an endearing and beautifully animated idle clicker game developed by ambai and kogeume.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

Animation: Cast between float and ints in Tween tween_property() ( GH-65072 ). GDNative: Fix script_data error when updating placeholder scripts for GDNative libraries ( GH-66255 ). GDScript: Fix Script editor completion doesn’t suggest members of a script for type hints ( GH-48037 ). Here are the main changes since 3.5.1-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Jump to the Downloads section. As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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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. A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ). Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ).

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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. GH-64082 ).

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this introductory tutorial series, we’ll teach beginners how to use the basic controls within Gogot’s game engine. Godot is a free and open source game development software that game devs can use to make beautiful 2D and 3D games. . A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

The platform provides a user-friendly interface that allows developers to create games using pre-built assets, scripts, and tools. Limited Control: While Roblox’s platform is great and user-friendly, it ultimately is not a stand-alone game development engine like Unity, Godot, or Unreal.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Jump to the Downloads section. As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Future WHAT IS YARN SPINNER IN 2022 The Yarn Spinner project is made of two main parts, which can be confusing: Yarn Spinner "Core" , generic dialogue engine processor thing ("virtual machine") + script compiler written in C#. You will need to mod this and personalize it for your unique game project.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). See the curated changelog , or the full commit history on GitHub on in text form for an exhaustive overview of the fixes in this release. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen? and no WASM.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

stable: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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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. A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! See the list below.

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