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Unreal Engine for Android Game Development: What to Expect

Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Unreal Engine (UE) is a quality software for the development of various game types, and it’s used by a significant number of famous game development studios in terms of the creation of incredible PCs and console projects. However, is it really a good idea to utilize Unreal Engine for Android game development ? Development.

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Developer Game Development

Godot Engine receives $120,000 grant from game development studio Kefir

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the game development studio Kefir is giving the Godot Engine project a USD 120,000 grant to fund further development of the engine. Thank you Kefir for supporting our free and open source game engine!

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Developer Game Development

Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development “Not as chaotic as Unity”

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. In the end we’d rather tone down some of our more ambitious features to get acceptable performance, and deliver a bug-free and polished release to our players.” “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.”

Dev

Dev Development Prototyping Feature

From Concept to Launch: The Step-by-Step Game Development Process

Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The engineers then convey the technological constraints to the writers. Developers work closely with the engineers to decide the game mechanics. The team will also conduct routine game testing to find and address any bugs. Prototyping Prototyping is not integral to the mobile game development process but has advantages.

Concepts

Concepts Game Developer Game Development Development

A Beginner’s Guide to Multiplayer Game Development

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. Through prototyping, you can identify possible issues early. It helps address any performance issues, bugs, and glitches in the game. The pre-production phase is crucial as it helps you set goals, budgets, and timelines. 

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Quality Assurance

Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 I have been working on a small prototype implementation and the results so far are promising, but it still needs to be integrated in the rendering backend and exposed to the user. Debug output of the prototype implementation.

Render

Render Culling Baking Lightmap

Godot Web export progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Additionally, a new prototype version of the Godot Web Editor is now available for you to try out. After way too long, a new prototype version of the Godot Web Editor is online. GDNative is the C language interface to Godot Engine that allows integrating third-party libraries without recompiling the engine.

Prototyping

Prototyping Engine Engineering Writing

Why I still use Unity

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

For him it's not about the graphics, it's about source engine access and engineering processes. Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. I would never maintain my own engine branch.

Engine

Engine Engineering Rigging Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Godot Showcase - Hive Time developer Cheeseness talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I first came across Godot when backing The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy on Kickstarter back in 2014, but I think the first project I used the engine for was a prototype for Super Happy Fun Sun developed as part of a game jam in 2015.

Development

Development Engine Engineering Prototyping

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds (new in 3.2.4 CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! beta 2).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I decided to study systems engineering and earn a degree in Computer Science – with the objective of becoming a videogame developer.” “And… This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. Once Repunk is done, I will develop a custom engine that will better suit my own workflow.”

Dev

Dev Playtesting Art Games

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It focused mostly on fixing bugs and therefore we were somewhat conservative on what could be merged before the release. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. You can find it on Steam and GOG.

Development

Development Shaders Terrain Engine

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine. Godot 4 OpenVR prototype plugin.

Tile

Tile Render Prototyping Mobile

Godot Showcase - Gravity Ace developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I've made games in a bunch of different engines and frameworks and languages over the years. At the time I was looking for an engine with a built-in visual editor because I was tired of moving things around by typing coordinates in code. And those engines felt just so.

Development

Development Art Engine Engineering

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

FBX has its own standard for handling animations which has not been fully reverse engineered correctly by any open source importer/exporter, so we had to start from scratch and only keep the FBX file parser from Assimp. Reverse engineering a lot of the functionality required to make FBX work properly was very hard. stable release.

Mesh

Mesh Animation Animation Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Godot Showcase - Primal Light developer interview

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I prototyped a little top-down Zelda clone and showed it to my friend Jeff one night while we were hanging out at his apartment. At that time, I didn’t have experience with any engines outside of PyGame, but since then I’ve become proficient in GMS2 and Unity, in addition to Godot.

Development

Development Pixel Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. When we released Godot 3.2 is released where we still work on 3.x

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Web Editor beta, AudioWorklet, GDNative and more!

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It's been a very fruitful year for Godot on the Web since the announcement of the first web editor prototype. C++) so you can further optimize your game and speed up execution, or bind external libraries to add extra functionalities to the engine. Stay tuned for the next announcement! References. GDNative support (3.2).

Beta

Beta Bug Build Code

The Role of Computer Science in Video Games

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

By pursuing this degree, you can get an entry-level job in software design, computer engineering, and computer science. Modern gaming engines are more realistic, immersive, and playable because of: Upgraded Graphics Technology has allowed developers to create better graphics. It usually takes four years to earn.

Games

Games Technology Graphics Game Design

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.2.4

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Software engineering is based on listing requirements and developing use cases from them. One situation I've seen repeated over and over as a consultant is having to deal with engineers that lie to themselves about successfully applying MVC to their game architecture (and making a complete dish of spaghetti and meatballs as a result).

Prototyping

Prototyping Alpha Asset Point and Click

Progress report April/May 2017

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Before going over some hand-picked changes, we'd like to welcome new contributors who got involved in the engine development during the last few months: magyar123, mcanders, Noshyaar, RameshRavone, toger5 and touilleMan. It will be the same engine, just better. Mono/C# support. Other noteworthy contributions. Networking fixes (Faless).

Alpha

Alpha Scripting Render Prototyping

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.2.4

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the rest of us engine contributors did not stay idle in the meantime, and a strong focus was put on fixing as many issues as we could to make Godot 3.2 still needed refinement, and thus a lot of work was poured into those areas to improve the usability, implement missing components and fix bugs reported by our growing userbase.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.2.4

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. As a result, Godot 3.1

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary

Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript.

Simulation

Simulation Dev Prototyping Technology

Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. There's also a thrill of access, where the camera captures vulnerable moments it wasn't quite supposed to see.

Art

Art Concepts Dev Studios

My Week

Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

The design part is hard to track though: I find most productive design thinking comes from a big engine in the back while you’re doing other things, as it randomly matches disparate ideas and sprinkles them with what you’re currently experiencing and asks: “Is that anything? Evening Chillwork.

Racing

Racing Prototyping Mechanics Bug

A dramatic design shift for Spellstorm

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

How does Bunny Wizard feel different to play than say, Omar Evans, the bug ninja? Part of the inherent “engine” of a card game is drawing cards from a deck and hoping to get a good hand. What is the experience of being Bunny Wizard like when playing a game called Spellstorm? What sorts of things do you do, or not do?

Mechanics

Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Playtesting

We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

Simulation

Simulation Art AI Internet

Unreal Engine for Android Game Development: What to Expect

Godot Engine receives $120,000 grant from game development studio Kefir

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Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development “Not as chaotic as Unity”

From Concept to Launch: The Step-by-Step Game Development Process

A Beginner’s Guide to Multiplayer Game Development

Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Godot Web export progress report #3

Why I still use Unity

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Godot Showcase - Hive Time developer Cheeseness talks about his experience

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Godot Showcase - Gravity Ace developer talks about his experience

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Godot Showcase - Primal Light developer interview

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

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

Web Editor beta, AudioWorklet, GDNative and more!

The Role of Computer Science in Video Games

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Progress report April/May 2017

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary

Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

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