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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

The bulk of a game’s content package is made up of resources that naturally target the GPU: textures, materials, and geometry data. Traditional data compression techniques are applicable to game content that rarely changes. First, the original data stream is segmented into 64 KB tiles, which are processed independently.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

Puzzle Duel was added to Toy Blast in July 2023 and runs every Monday to Wednesday, expanding the LiveOps framework Matchington Mansion Developer Magic Tavern has taken this idea a step further in Matchington Mansion with its 1v1 competitive event, Bake-Off. They advance through the reward track each time they win a match.

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Auto-tiling in tile maps. As mentioned above, 3.0 Full principled BSDF. GPU particles.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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