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How do you Choose the Best Game Design Software for your Project?

Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

To ensure compatibility, you should identify the features and tools essential for your chosen genre. Platform Compatibility You should consider the platforms your game will be available on, such as consoles, PCs, mobile devices, or virtual reality.

Software

Software Game Design Game Designer Cross platform

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

In this version, we have integrated several core post-processing features and basic post-processing effects into the Custom Pipeline listing below: Anti-Aliasing: FXAA & TAA Disable TAA Enable TAA Super Resolution: FSR Disable FSR Enable FSR Ambient Occlusion: HBAO Bloom Custom Color Grading Disabled Enabled Starting from 3.8,

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add a method to get global CanvasItem modulate ( GH-70294 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we're happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here's beta 2!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. 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. update to the 3.2

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. When recreating Among Us for VR platforms, Schell Games only made two major changes to the original game. “We You’re rendering everything twice You have two screens you’re working with.

Dev

Dev Playtesting Fantasy Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Highlights.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

release is going to be packed with many new features. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

is going to be incredibly feature-packed, and we're taking the time necessary to ensure that it will also be stable. After a lot of testing and additional work, we decided that the new 2D snapping features weren't working as we want them to yet, so they has been reverted in 3.2.4 Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we’re happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here’s beta 2!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Open Source Simulation Expands with NVIDIA PhysX 5 Release

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

PhysX 5 SDK now supports the capabilities of NVIDIA Flex , which enables various new features. These features include finite element model-based soft body dynamics as well as liquid, cloth, and inflatable objects using position-based dynamics, optimized to run on GPUs. Advanced demos are no longer bundled with the SDK.

Simulation

Simulation Collision Demo Technology

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Collision

Collision Mesh Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Highlights.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

The version change doesn't mean that we're reopening the branch for new features, and so Godot 3.3 New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ).

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold.

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A few late features have also been included because they were too good to keep waiting (such as improved Inspector subresource editing and node copy-paste support ). New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold.

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 Some of those features had already been partially implemented before the 3.2

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. now and read on to learn more about the many new features in this update. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. New core features. Instancing is one of Godot's best features. Other new core features. New editor features. Collision and navigation debugging.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. While this article focuses mostly on the new features of the engine, it's worth mentioning that Godot's documentation has seen a lot of work from dozens of contributors.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 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). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

How do you Choose the Best Game Design Software for your Project?

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

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