Build, Debug, Development and Game Engine

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. A staggering 70% of the top Android and iOS developers use it to develop exceptional mobile games. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Game Developer

Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Let’s understand the array of features that create such next-level user experiences. OpenXREyeTracker 3. Oculus OpenXR 6.

Engine

Engine Engineering Development Visual Scripting

In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Using frames as a specific time measurement is less helpful because development builds typically aren't optimized and may run at different frame rates based on what's going on. Our debug logging keeps tabs on everything in terms of milliseconds so we can see how temporally far apart events in the log fire.

Animation

Animation Animation Debug Dev

New NVIDIA Updates for Unreal Engine Developers

Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Drops, Global Illumination, Super Sampling, and Low Latency Solutions Level Up Today, Unreal Engine developers receive access. Drops, Global Illumination, Super Sampling, and Low Latency Solutions Level Up Today, Unreal Engine developers receive access to several NVIDIA updates. Custom RTX Branch of UE4.27

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Development

2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Engine AI

[TUTORIAL] How to use Mobx to control your game state

Cocos

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Even though Unity has made remarkable work with the UIToolKit approach to development, trying to mimic the same FE reactivity-like features, I could not feel that I went back a few years in time working with early versions of Angular 2. Now you can see the results and debug it in the browser as you would doing your web app.

Prop

Prop Debug Engine Engineering

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given. If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given pass.

Shaders

Shaders Games Render Debug

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This week at GDC, NVIDIA announced a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of. NVIDIA announces a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of virtual worlds.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Game Developer Game Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. This is especially useful for the developers targeting the Steam Deck, as you can configure it to have one-click deploy to your device. Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Animation

Godot Showcase - Hive Time developer Cheeseness talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Welcome to the third developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! My name is Cheese, and I'm an Australian independent game developer/Linux porter/freelance generalist based in the small island of Tasmania. I've been making games in some form or another for over thirty years now.

Development

Development Engine Engineering Prototyping

Godot Showcase - Friday Night Funkin' VR developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to a Godot showcase developer interview! This week, we interviewed Ben Kurtin about his experience developing and releasing a VR recreation of the hit rhythm game Friday Night Funkin'. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? How was your experience building a VR game specifically?

Development

Development Engine Engineering Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Disinfection , a space horror game by indie duo Evil Turtle Productions which is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 You can follow the developers on Twitter and Mastodon , and wishlist the game on Steam. Editor: Add button to keep the debug server open ( GH-69164 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. For more information, contact NVIDIA’s developer relations team or visit developer.nvidia.com.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Platformer Development

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2021

So we're now making a RC 5 build to keep iterating fast and make sure that the bug fixes work as expected. Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! For macOS, both the standard and Mono editor builds are now signed and notarized ! Mono build (C# support + all the above). stable soon™.

Bug

Bug Build Debug Game Engine

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re looking for efficiency, performance, and data-oriented programming in your game development platform, Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) may just be what you need. Apart from leveraging its powerful engine, you also get to widen your skillset and enjoy a growing market demand for Unity DOTS professionals.

Technology

Technology Concepts Simulation Game Developer

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

stable: Android: Remove -fno-integrated-as , it can break arm64v8 build ( GH-48851 ). HTML5: Fix GDNative build with Emscripten 2.0.19+ ( GH-48831 ). Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). Windows: Fix Embree crash when building with MinGW ( GH-48888 ).

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Here are some of the main changes in this build: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). HTML5: Fix build with Emscripten 2.0.17+ ( GH-48320 ). Linux: Fix 32-bit builds' compatibility with older libstdc++. The builds should be compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

9 Popular Video Game Testing Tools in the Market to Level Up Your Game QA

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The last thing you need is to release a faulty or error-prone video game to players. Players will not like it and may create a negative impression of your video game due to the poor gameplay experience. Remember, we live in an interconnected world where your video game can go viral overnight, attracting significant traffic.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Bug Cross platform Playtesting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 alpha builds. Navigation: Add more detailed Navigation debug visualization ( GH-62601 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). What's new.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

HTML5: Fix build with Emscripten 2.0.17+ ( GH-48320 ). Linux: Fix 32-bit builds' compatibility with older libstdc++. The builds should be compatibile with Ubuntu 16.04 Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). HTML5: Fix target_fps when window loses focus ( GH-48543 ).

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Racing

Leveraging PocoDriver for Game Test Automation

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the features, benefits, and potential impact of POCO Driver on the gaming community. POCO Driver is a powerful game automation tool developed by POCO Studio. It offers a wide range of features designed to simplify and enhance gaming experiences across various genres and platforms.

Scripting

Scripting Games Pixel Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

stable: Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Note: UWP export templates are missing from this build, will be re-added in the next build.

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

If all goes well with this RC 2, the stable build should come early next week. HTML5: Fix build with Emscripten 2.0.17+ ( GH-48320 ). Linux: Fix 32-bit builds' compatibility with older libstdc++. The builds should be compatibile with Ubuntu 16.04 Mono build (C# support + all the above). RC 1 for details.

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Godot Showcase - Little Red Dog Games talk about their experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Welcome to the first developer interview following the introduction of the new Showcase page ! This week, we've interviewed Little Red Dog Games ' lead developer Ryan Hewer about their latest project, Rogue State Revolution. We're Little Red Dog Games ! Do you have prior experience with other game engines?

Engine

Engine Engineering Asset Games

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. The main development effort then moved towards our future major version, Godot 4.0 (see experience (especially since we expect at least one year of development before 4.0 iOS export templates are now included in the Mono build.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

Mesh

Mesh Culling Ray Tracing Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After close to 7 months of development and over 4,000 commits since the 3.1 alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. requirements (changes to the Android buildsystem and packaging, especially with the new C# support), as well as a build server upgrade.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Disinfection , a space horror game by indie duo Evil Turtle Productions which is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 You can follow the developers on Twitter and Mastodon , and wishlist the game on Steam. Editor: Add button to keep the debug server open ( GH-69164 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

RC 2 is that the Android builds now target API level 30 as required by Google Play , and have partial support for Android scoped storage. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). A notable change in 3.3.2

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. And this is just a first beta, there's more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.102.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. We will re-sign them as soon as a new certificate is available. These binaries have been updated on the mirror, users who downloaded Godot 3.4.4

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen?

Sprite

Sprite Simulation Build Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above). You need to have dotnet CLI or MSBuild installed to use the Mono build. Bug reports.

Render

Render Bug Collision Animation

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

January is coming to an end, and we're about to have great Godot events in the coming days in Brussels , Belgium, with the Godot Sprint (for contributors), FOSDEM (for thousands of free software users and developers) and our biggest GodotCon so far (for everyone!). But what 3D tools are available for the most popular open-source game engine?

Cross platform

Cross platform Demo Collision Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see 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. 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Here are the main changes since 3.3.2-stable: please file an issue on GitHub.

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 The Web editor build is not functional yet. alpha builds. Navigation: Add debug visuals for GridMap cell edge connections ( GH-64173 ). The initial support has been merged, but more work is required to make official builds easily.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Beta

Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this introductory tutorial series, we’ll teach beginners how to use the basic controls within Gogot’s game engine. Godot is a free and open source game development software that game devs can use to make beautiful 2D and 3D games. . A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine.

Asset

Asset Editing Scripting Code

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Trending Sources

In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

New NVIDIA Updates for Unreal Engine Developers

2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

[TUTORIAL] How to use Mobx to control your game state

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Godot Showcase - Hive Time developer Cheeseness talks about his experience

Godot Showcase - Friday Night Funkin' VR developer talks about his experience

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 5

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

9 Popular Video Game Testing Tools in the Market to Level Up Your Game QA

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Leveraging PocoDriver for Game Test Automation

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Godot Showcase - Little Red Dog Games talk about their experience

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

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