Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s about allowing players to lose themselves in more than just a game, but a new world. This goal is always top-of-mind for Schell Games. In this interview, we spoke to Schell Games’ Vice President of Product, Charlie Amis, to learn their story. This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks for joining us for another exciting and epic issue of the Kristala Dev Blog. The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. We're so glad you're here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Welcome back to ACS headquarters for another rousing installment of the Kristala game dev blog. The event kicks off on March 26th and runs through April 2nd, so be sure to check out our Events section for more details on the Kristala booth and which game island we'll be featured on. 3D Asset Design.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. In the full version of the game, you'll be able to play as the Chosen Warrior from the clan of your choice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And that's just as well, since a lot of work continues to be done every day to fix issues in the master branch and improve usability, and Juan even took the time to sneak in a couple past-deadline but very requested features, like a lightmapper for static light baking (to provide an alternative to the real-time but resource-heavy GIProbe).

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 30, 2017

If you’re game developer, you’re an entrepreneur. Even if you’re not in it for money, the amount of physical material, labor, and funding you’ll need to organize to make your game real will make you into an entrepreneur. Just take a look at these Google results… Need help on your board game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ). or earlier 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Incredibuild for Cloud Optimization on the AWS Marketplace.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

It won't just happen that hundreds of lines of class descriptions are written by the core devs; their time is much better spent developing the great features we are all so fond of waiting for. light baking, networking, plugins, pathfinding, etc.).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. He was immediately drawn to the team’s ambition to create a game that could provide the same exhilarating experiences as larger games, but with the capacity to run on low-end hardware.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

Do you want to make people laugh at the silly things the game’s troops say if you click on them enough times? If so, you probably want to be a game writer. You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. And that’s valid! What technical pitfalls await the unwary?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Read the updated docs for details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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