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The Importance of Beta Testing in Game Development

iXie gaming

Beta testing is a critical game quality assurance (QA) process. You can think of beta testing as a pre-release measure to identify performance and gameplay issues before the actual launch. You can think of beta testing as a pre-release measure to identify performance and gameplay issues before the actual launch.

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Godot 4.0 development enters feature freeze ahead of the first beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

To achieve this, we need to shift the focus from implementing new and exciting features towards stabilizing the existing functionality and fixing bugs. The road to Beta 1. With that in mind, effective August 3rd we're entering a feature freeze stage, and no changes to the roadmap for Godot 4.0 Beta phase considerations.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

has been in beta for a little over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. This beta 6 includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: GDScript cyclic reference issues begone! beta with their Scatter addon. What's new. milestone.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some big changes in this beta: Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). GDScript: Loads of follow-up improvements to recent fixes in beta 5 and 6. C#: Tons of improvements!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What's new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release.

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