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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Set key parameters for your model, like size, shape, or complexity, and Kaidim will automatically adjust the geometry as you make edits. OpenGameArt: Another excellent resource for free game assets, OpenGameArt focuses on 2D graphics and audio. This simplifies creating variations and iterations of your models.

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Breakout: Physics

The Liquid Fire

As a game engine, Unity provides a lot of functionality right out of the box. You could make some really fun physics based games and not need to have a math degree to do it! In fact, in this lesson we will start creating game objects that react to physics, with no programming required. Move the Wall beneath the Ball.

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Making shaders more accessible

Mircosoft Game Dev

To explain the idea of how shaders work, let's consider a very simple shader for drawing a sprite to the screen. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. Multiply by 2. Substract (1, 1). 1 range for drawing).

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Godot gets a brand new animation editor (with cinematic support)

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). Animation editing was one of the first distinctive Godot features. Key editing in inspector. A bit of history.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Edit 2021-12-22: One regression has been found which causes flickering on macOS (affects both using the editor on macOS, and games exported to macOS).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Please test it on Windows (any version) to confirm that editing a project from the project manager, and running a project from the editor, both work fine. Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). get_root() ).

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