Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is with great excitement that we announce that the Godot Engine project is receiving support funded by a grant from Facebook Reality Labs to further the development of Virtual Reality (VR) features within Godot. We designed a work package for VR and mobile rendering which we are now able to fund thanks to this generous grant.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. In its update, 2022.2.11, HDRP/Nature/SpeedTree8.shadergraph

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 11, 2023

Release + Cyberpunk Demo The free cross platform 3D game engine Cocos Creator recently released Cocos 3.7 as well as a new Cyberpunk themed demo showcasing the new rendering capabilities of the engine. GameFromScratch.com Cocos Creator 3.7 New features of the Cocos 3.7.0 releases include: In addition to the 3.7

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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. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). The updates are available through NVIDIA SDKs and select technologies through the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX). NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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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. Looking forward to 2022.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Our Gaming Solutions Can Transform Your Next Gaming Project In the competitive gaming industry, our services and solutions maximize the chances of a game’s success by focusing on the features, functionalities, and overall quality of the game. Read more on how we do that.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

Naturally, the process of building these experiences on AR/VR platforms calls for some of the most talented groups of developers who love a challenge. To understand AR/VR game development , one needs to understand the fundamentals of AR/VR as a platform. Why is AR/VR different?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Unity has rapidly risen in popularity to become one of the most widely used game production engines throughout the globe. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. Developers can deploy their works on major platforms and devices, including Android and iOS, as well as consoles and web plugins.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Accessibility is taking center stage, making the gaming world a welcoming space for everyone. But that’s not all! And guess what?

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

At GDC 2021, NVIDIA’s updates, enhancements, and platform compatibility expansions enable RTX to be turned ON for a larger base than ever before. Check out GDC 2021 announcements, video sessions, and game development demos on the NVIDIA at GDC Official Webpage. Access DLSS in Unreal Engine 5 and Unreal Engine 4.26.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on.

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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. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2021

I've been contributing to the engine since 2016, when I discovered it –version 2.1 was the newest– and decided to use it to create my game Hellrule. In a game engine, the engine loop is the sequence of steps that is happening again and again to let the game run. Old behavior in Godot 3.3.x x and before.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

From NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) to RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), our latest tools and technologies are helping game developers create realistic and stunning virtual worlds for gamers. NVIDIA DLSS Overview & Game Integrations This session will cover the technology that makes DLSS possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Given the scope of this change for all platforms, we expect some regressions, which will be fixed for beta 16. renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ).

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs.

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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. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

The challenges that Godot faces for supporting those platforms. Which alternatives exist to publish your Godot games for consoles. This means that, on the whole public Internet, you will not be able to find (legally, at least): Any detailed public documentation on how consoles work (that was not reverse engineered).

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

Making a Mobile Game in Unity When thinking about game development, most people associate it with a time- and effort-consuming process that requires lots of resources and dozens of specialists to be involved (if we are talking about serious projects, of course). Is Unity Good for Mobile Games?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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. Eventually, the plan is to create a new next-gen renderer, with support for PBM and real-time global illumination.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Rendering: Remove light from dynamic light list when removing scenario ( GH-71584 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fix Ctrl/Cmd key remapping changes when moving from macOS to other platform ( GH-65241 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Input: Fix Ctrl/Cmd key remapping changes when moving from macOS to other platform ( GH-65241 ). Physics: Implement Area[2D/3D].has_overlapping_[bodies/areas]

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). We released Godot 3.4.1 This new Godot 3.4.2 Godot 3.4.2 is a recommended upgrade for all Godot 3.4 release notes.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They decide the game’s type, visual style (2D or 3D), characters, setting, and the platform it will be on. Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Testing Testing is like quality control.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Gamescom , the annual video game trade fair and conference held in Cologne, Germany, came roaring back in 2022 with over 265,000 consumers and industry professionals coming together to interact and get a glimpse into the future of gaming. The following are the new AWS for Games product announcements leading up to Gamescom 2023.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Develop Acceptance Criteria As user stories are developed, acceptance criteria should be created to determine when each feature or game element is considered complete. Therefore, understanding your target audience’s preferences is crucial in deciding which platform to release your game on.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. Convai NPCs can navigate complex verbal instructions and convert them to natural actions in the game engine.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Automation testing can cover a wide range of scenarios, including stress testing, performance testing, and compatibility testing across different platforms and devices. To overcome this issue, the Game Test automation tools have incorporated certain techniques and underlying principles of kind and based on which they can even be classified.

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Nvidia

JULY 29, 2021

Escape from Naraka was made in Unreal Engine 4, using NVIDIA’s NvRTX branch to bring ray tracing and DLSS into production. Once ray-traced global illumination was integrated into the engine, XeloGames reported benefits they immediately experienced: “RTXGI really helps with how quick you can set up a light in a scene.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

I've made several games in the past couple of years, with projects ranging from a simple 2D platformer to the very VR rhythm game being showcased here; and that was all done while I was self-taught. Now I'm currently going to college to, quite literally, learn how to make games. As for when the next update comes up.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Rename uniform to parameter across the engine ( GH-64952 ).

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

Today, the NVIDIA DLSS SDK is adding support for games running natively on Linux with x86. We are also announcing DLSS support for ARM-based platforms. directly from the NVIDIA Developer website, access the Unreal Engine 5 and 4.26 Simply download the DLSS SDK 2.2.1

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