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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development 

iXie gaming

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. This enables developers to create game logic without extensive coding experience. As a result, you can track and debug visual components in real-time.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Working on the tool script feature.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

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Use GDevelop to Make Your Own Games

Game Designing

With GDevelop, anyone can easily get started making and even selling their own games – and you won’t need to write a line of code! GDevelop is also an open-source project, meaning the code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and contribute to. After all, games are made of code aren’t they? But how is that possible?

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More programming languages in Godot, want to help?

Mircosoft Game Dev

We understood that most of the code written for a game is not performance critical, and that the C++ part of the engine already covers most of the critical parts, so we originally went for Lua, and then for Squirrel (while trying Python in the process). Binding code was always large, complex and prone to bugs.

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. x), we're going back to a stricter application of semantic versioning and those releases will only contain bug fixes and usability/documentation improvements. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0 release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). More experienced programmers can use the servers directly or even plug C++ code to do the heavy lifting.

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