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A Comprehensive Guide to Regression Testing in Video Games

iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

It helps ensure the new code changes do not introduce bugs. This is because a simple code change can bring new logic that differs from the existing game code, resulting in defects. Game QA teams usually have several regression test cases for crucial features that they re-run every time they make code changes.

Bug

Bug UX Code Games

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. She writes that stuff. She writes that interstitial code.

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

Educational

Educational Education Writing UX

Create, Share, and Scale Enterprise AI Workflows with NVIDIA AI Workbench, Now in Beta

Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

It also walks through a coding copilot reference example, which enables you to use AI Workbench to create, test, and customize a pretrained generative AI model on your platform of choice. Benefits include: Free and quick install on the system of choice with an intuitive UX or CLI for project creation and management.

AI

AI Beta Data Code

Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus, MMO Hall of Fame inductee Wizard101, and the 2007 PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in Videogame Writing.

Educational

Educational Education Writing UX

Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus and the PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in Videogame Writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

Educational

Educational Education Writing UX

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). This makes it easier to support multiple keyboard layouts. normalized(). As a community effort, Godot relies on individual contributors to improve.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Fabio Alessandrelli ( Faless ) has done a lot of work to enable running the Godot editor on the Web, using the same export code as for Godot-made games (since the Godot editor is developed 100% with the Godot API). macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web!

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Tennis Clash’s rich production & art quality, simple and fast-paced core gameplay mechanics, combined with world-class art, UX/UI, and pleasing on the eye graphics make it a pure joy to indulge in.

Racing

Racing Games UX Mobile

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

There is a high demand from Godot users in countries and cultures where right-to-left writing systems are used to have proper support for it in Godot (such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. will support a new display system based on a DisplayServer.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. What's next.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. when running in the editor, or exporting a debug build) will properly handle such situations and, when using the debugger, provide a clear error message so that the user code can be adapted to prevent the issue.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

A friend of mine wants to become a game designer without learning any other disciplines in game dev, he seems very sure this is possible but his confidence comes off as “idea guy” to me. I like thinking about design as well and how it could all fit together cohesively but I’m worried he’s setting himself up for failure by not learning another discipline to go along with it. Am I correct in this thought or am I being an jerk?

Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

That might mean working on combat, quests, cinematics, narrative, itemization, UX, enemies, levels/environments, or any of a number of other specialties. A cinematic designer doesn't need to understand how to code but does need to learn how to use tools like Source Filmmaker to stage and block cinematics.

Cinematics

Cinematics Game Design Game Designer Dev

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Coding tools. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Coding tools. Visual Shaders overhaul. Graphics/Rendering improvements.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

For the second time, Godot took part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. It also supports many editors - VS Code, Atom, Sublime, etc.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GDScript: Ignore property groups and categories in GDScript code completion ( GH-54272 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GDScript: Ignore property groups and categories in GDScript code completion ( GH-54272 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Shaders: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I try not to allow my companies to spend 18 month coding before they get any sort of you know, there's so many. They can't code. And basically, it's a storytelling game where you basically write a story with the A.I. You need the UX to work. I need to write that piece of code. Gigi Levy Weiss Yeah.

Games

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering

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