Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! release cycle. and begin preparing for 4.5.

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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. Rework EditorPlugin editing logic, allowing multiple plugins to be active at the same time ( GH-71770 ). Editor: Rework EditorPlugin editing logic ( GH-71770 ).

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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, New core features. Instancing is one of Godot's best features. Other new core features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ). GH-59810 ).

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). The new one builds upon the strengths of the previous one but does massive improvements to features and usability. Key editing in inspector.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you are planning to develop a mobile game, then it is crucial to understand that a successful game that attracts players and stands out in crowded app stores takes a lot of time, effort and dedication. Selecting the most suitable mobile game engine is one of the crucial decisions that must be taken.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. It's fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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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. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The forum ( edit: now replaced by the Q&A ), IRC and Facebook are now full of life! is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Overview & Game Integrations This session will cover the technology that makes DLSS possible. Learn how to integrate DLSS into a new game engine. Join this session to check out some of the available tools and features that developers can use to take advantage of NVIDIA GPUs and improve the graphics in games.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Simply input parameters like genre, target audience, and desired features, and Ludo AI will suggest potential game ideas. Drag and drop nodes to add shapes, manipulate features, and adjust parameters in real-time. Build your game once and deploy it across various platforms, maximizing your reach and potential audience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

It includes notably Text-to-Speech support on all platforms (as a feature for games/applications, the Godot editor itself doesn't make use of it for now), and a refactoring of the module/extension initialization levels to allow more flexibility for third-party code. See the changelog on GitHub for an overview of all changes since 4.0

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. You can use it to develop games and the personal edition is free. It comes with a variety of features that aid fast coding. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases. get_root() ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ). GH-59810 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

We have listened to and worked with our awesome community to make Godot one of the easiest game development environments to use. There are countless new features in this version (see the full changelog, chronological or listed by contributor ). One of the most requested features is finally here! As of the 2.1

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. Support for Several Different Platforms Unity was first made available for Mac OS X, but it currently supports over 25 other platforms, which increases the number of people who can play video games.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 before this edit are advised to re-download at least the export templates if they intend to export to iOS. branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

Characteristics and Types of Metaverse Game Development Games in the metaverse are distinguished by their 3D, immersive worlds that enable real-time player interaction. They frequently incorporate social components including voice, text, and video chat, as well as competitive and cooperative gaming features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. and many more! Official documentation.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is the welcome video and first lesson from our mini-course on the Unity Game Engine. Learn what the Unity game engine is, how to create an account, set up the software, and start making your first scene. Really cool game development stuff and I’m excited to share all of it with you. All for free.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the Godot Engine project is receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs to support our work on the XR capabilities of the engine. This renews Reality Labs' engagement to support the free and open source Godot game engine, after a first grant in December 2020.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Character artist The character artist shapes the characters through the creation of visual elements like facial expressions, weapons, and clothing through the use of sculpture, rigging and editing. They collaborate with creative and technical teams to enhance the game’s visual appearance and maintain a uniform character design.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 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 couple of weeks ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Editor: Clean-up and improve array editing in the inspector ( GH-63266 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

I enjoy contributing to new features and bringing new possibilities to the broader community. glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade NDK to r23 LTS ( GH-61691 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

It also has great features such as previous and next indices or the fact it fetches the source pages from our GitHub project , where we can write them comfortably in reStructuredText. Edit: That went fast, our resident design expert Daniel alias djrm already implemented it using the pre-existing sphinx-tabs extension.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We expect there to be more challenges along the way as we learn how to author content efficiently and make use of all the powerful features. Layer edits (and commands) describe how we send diffs to synchronize one way or another Has the change to USD affected how you create assets?

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases. get_root() ).

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