Console, Debug, Game Engine and Platformer

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. 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. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Game Developer

Godot Showcase - Little Red Dog Games talk about their experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? We've worked with other engines and frameworks before, but we stumbled upon Godot while actively looking for new game engines to try out with strong Linux support in 2015. You can check it out on Steam. How did you discover Godot? When did you start using it?

Engine

Engine Engineering Asset Games

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

Core refactoring progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2020

This was cumbersome for many reasons and also imposed limitations, such as: Having a large, bloated OS class on every platform. This is also useful for games developed for certain types of dedicated hardware, or just for tools created with Godot as the base platform (which is something several users do). Window node.

Platformer

Platformer Engine Engineering Feature

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen? and no WASM.)

Sprite

Sprite Simulation Build Animation

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. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, Some of the editors are also always shown with persistent buttons: Output console. Debug on hardware devices.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Windows: Improve console handling and execute ( GH-55987 ). This changes the editor console handling to be like on Unix systems (Linux and macOS).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Windows: Improve console handling and execute ( GH-55987 ). This changes the editor console handling to be like on Unix systems (Linux and macOS).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Windows: Improve console handling and execute ( GH-55987 ). This changes the editor console handling to be like on Unix systems (Linux and macOS).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Generate custom game events from Unreal Engine with the Game Analytics Pipeline

AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While this data can be generated by any producer, from game servers to marketing services to publishing platforms, the most critical producer of data is player data generated by active users of a game on the game client and builds. This also removes the added cost associated with using API Gateway.

Engine

Engine Engineering Data Games

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

While making medium to large scale games in Godot, many small bugs start to creep in that cannot be caught by the compiler. These can only be dealt with manually while debugging. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it. Introduction.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Asset

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

There were a few things I think I could have done better which would involve a better testing and debugging setup. Setting up the debugging caused me to waste some of my time, and I should probably have had a testing workflow prepared for stress testing the changes I was going to make. About the project experience. Minor regrets.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Game Developers Network

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

Godot Showcase - Little Red Dog Games talk about their experience

Trending Sources

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Core refactoring progress report #2

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Generate custom game events from Unreal Engine with the Game Analytics Pipeline

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

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