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Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. Moonwards is the experience of building a world together. Moonwards is meant to be an MMO, hence possibly thousands of game entities needing to be acted upon, then networked in real-time.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If all goes well, the next build should be 3.2.2-stable. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x.

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Beta Dev Debug Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

This new RC 3 build fixes a couple recent regressions. While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. How to test.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x.

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Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

This new RC 1 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

There's still more I want to add over coming days, but there's no reason to delay the publication of the beta 2 builds. macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Highlights.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 This build also fixes a nasty crash on Windows for some projects using dynamic fonts with outlines, triggered by a buildsystem update ( GH-50790 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 The main changes coming in Godot 3.4

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

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. iOS export templates are now included in the Mono build. came with a brand new Android plugin system, and notably the possibility to build custom APKs from your project folder with any additional plugins/modules that your project needs.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). GiB, including on 32-bit OSes.

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

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Render Feature Shaders Bug

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

If you want to try the new changes outlined below, you can use this custom build (Linux, Windows). Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. Then there are in-graph editable nodes , which provide a simple yet powerful UX improvement to the Visual Script. Work done. Visual Script graph unification.

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