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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. This can be understood by examining the Engine and Game Logic parts separately: Engine. Game logic. Still (while, by far, not the majority) some types of games will see a performance benefit when using ECS in the game logic side.

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs  

iXie gaming

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates.

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Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

OpenGameArt: Another excellent resource for free game assets, OpenGameArt focuses on 2D graphics and audio. Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

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