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In regard to the vertical slice. Do studios work on/produce it to pitch a game or is it used as a milestone to reassure the money people that the game is progressing? (or both)?

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It typically signals the end of preproduction and the transition to production - we're no longer going to spend time coming up with any more major new ideas for game systems because we're committing to what we have and building those systems out. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

They've been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What's new. specifically.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What’s new. specifically.

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The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

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These are 7 absolutely worst things you can do in your game dev project that will slow down your game, make it crash, not get you hired in a game studio, or get you fired if you work in one. This is something I see a lot in the game dev world, especially the tutorial world. If not, you have that inside Game Dev Pro. #5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. From now on you'll find builds of the Android editor as _android_editor.apk in the download repository.

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