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D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

Catnip Games

I made a “master sheet” with all the tiles to keep things organized. I implemented a new material system for tiles. In addition to the visible texture, each tile had a lower resolution bitmap which defined the material at a given spot. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier.

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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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Editor: Fix autocomplete on functions returning variants ( GH-69897 ).

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

Nvidia

On the other hand, parallelizing the traditional data compression algorithms has been challenging, due to fundamental serial assumptions “baked” into their design. First, the original data stream is segmented into 64 KB tiles, which are processed independently. This also enables random access to the compressed data at tile granularity.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Editor: Fix autocomplete on functions returning variants ( GH-69897 ).

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Every part must be set accordingly to the tiles, that size is 30x30x10. A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys. Players are able to create their own tracks using road parts, obstacles and props.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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