Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Adds TileMap terrain center bit to support "connect" and "path" draw modes ( GH-61809 ). alpha builds. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add TileMap terrain center bit to support "connect" and "path" draw modes ( GH-61809 ). x projects to the 4.0 What's new.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In my last post about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Z:TotK for short), a very popular game, I suggested that people would be interested in thoughtful criticism of slightly older games, once the dust has settled and people had the chance to calmly reflect about them. Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Computer software like Unreal Engine has been in the works to build 3D models of structures. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs. Its convenient features allow architects and Unreal Engine developers to build immersive environments from scratch.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The world of gaming is always on the brink of something new, something vast, something that promises to change how we play and interact in virtual spaces. I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco. “This is what we’re building with Eco ,” Krajewski said. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? and Global Game Jam.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get ready for a real treat if you've ever been curious about the M&A in the gaming industry. We're about to explore what a typical work-week looks like for a Mergers & Acquisitions executive, navigate through the major obstacles that can obstruct deals, and stay at the forefront of the latest trends in the gaming industry M&A.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Can't wait for the full frontal in the next game!) Well, I don't know anything about that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, here are the standings before the final game between Barbados and Grenada.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. While he loves teaching coding to students of all levels, he has worked hard on our latest experimental course, Elite Game Engine. Gabe has already made waves working in an advanced field in the IT sector.

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Game Errors

APRIL 6, 2023

But now that the game is supposedly polished, all that remains to say is that Ubisoft really doesn’t like its fans. The only redeeming feature of this game is that it doesn’t look bad. However, take another game that came out just recently, namely Elden Ring. Far Cry 6 has been out for a while now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). 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 3 (209 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 78 contributors). Known issues.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. This work deals with the development and design of an open world game with a high.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). 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 3 (209 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 78 contributors). Known issues.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through my environmental design process for a game we plan on launching out of our studio soon. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. .

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. Selecting a base terrain.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. First off: I learned a lot about Unity’s build in batching system. Another critical thought was that I want to batch the vegetation meshes and some other meshes on runtime while playing the game. Draw call batching.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

So Native scripts can't "hack the engine", but you can build some nice scripts that enable you to use the steamworks API, or Google Play Services without recompiling the engine. GDScript is an excellent language for making games and quick prototyping. Building the library. It contains a simple build script.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2020

This post wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Tatyana Bogatyreva , Head of UA at Gram Games, Nebojsa Radovic , Growth Lead at N3TWORK and Yevgeny Peres , VP of Growth at ironSource. At the same time, trying to build new tooling now while so much is still up in the air can lead to simply redoing everything later.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

and my notes are obviously going to spoil some of the game's structure, but all these spoilers are pretty vague and anyway I don't name any names. This is a business model I've always wondered about -- make a big complicated game, but then earn revenue from selling ads on the wiki for your own game? Anyway, here's my notes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

First I've been working on building a test suite for physics. In order to solve this problem, we use an algorithm similar to Bresenham's line algorithm, which had been implemented in Bullet by Zylann , a Godot contributor who is also behind the Godot Heightmap Terrain plugin. Test framework. Initial pull request: GH-47347.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Progress Quest taught us all how simple our brains where and how easily games could use our mental reward systems against us. At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. And honestly, I'd probably spend a lot of time playing that game. Restrictive terrain.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, it will include one of most requested features that the previous lesson was missing – tiles of different terrain types, and how that can affect move cost. In addition, the pathfinding rules for Pathfinder are far more complex and varied than those found in games like Final Fantasy Tactics.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. build templates. Android Studio will run in the Release configuration if the build panel is insufficient to select the Debug option. Fixed Mat4.getRotation getRotation issue.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes. That would be bad :P.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). This doesn’t affect most users directly, but for anyone compiling Godot from source, we’ve refactored the way we define what to build. Buildsystem: Add serve and run SCons targets to test Web editor builds ( GH-64886 , GH-67325 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). This doesn't affect most users directly, but for anyone compiling Godot from source, we've refactored the way we define what to build. Buildsystem: Add serve and run SCons targets to test Web editor builds ( GH-64886 , GH-67325 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. So I divided the bumpy terrain into quadrants, with big tree roots gating each section. It helps supplement the stealth fantasy in a game with basically no stealth mechanics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from Lone Knight by Jean Makes Games. Follow Jean Makes Games on Twitter for updates. Buildsystem: Fix feature build profile being parsed too late (and rename the option to build_profile ) ( GH-71508 ). Editor: Keep terrain choice when changing layer in TileMap editor ( GH-70601 ).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. Board Creator Scene Under the scripts folder create a subfolder called “PreProduction” We’ll put scripts in here that help us create things for the game, but aren’t part of the game itself. Gdscript is similar to Python.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In the time since Garrisons were added, however, a combination of relevant changes to the game started putting pressure on their original design: Many more full branch maps were added, along with factions, each with their own enticing reasons to visit them compared to the weaker incentives for entering a Garrison.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Especially the last twelve months the game has been thriving, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue per day.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

WebRTC support for multiplayer games by Brandon Makin. WebRTC support for multiplayer games – Brandon Makin. We will soon have a GDNative plugin allowing game developers to easily use WebRTC in Godot via Godot’s high level networking. Networked multiplayer in web browser games has historically been difficult.

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