Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Cars/people in city simulators, where thousands appear all across the city. Sandbox style simulations. When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal. Complex custom particles that run on CPU. Flocks, swarms, mobs, debris, etc.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness. Additionally to being able to simulate skin more correctly, it also supports transmittance, so light that comes from behind will spread towards the front by scattering below the surface. This is changing in 4.0, New Subsurface Scattering. In Godot 4.0,

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