Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 4: Sound Engineer  Summary In this video, we’re tuning into the world of sound engineers, the maestros behind all the immersive sounds and epic soundtracks in your favorite games. Sometimes sound engineers will find sound bites online and use them just as they are. And that is a much harder said than done.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2023

When I say depth, I mean “pick a specialty” - systems design, combat design, level design, UX design, technical design, etc. Depth to me is understanding the core concepts and nuance of a specific form of design, not experience with engines or tools or whatever. Depth to me is the understanding of concepts in the field.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

UI/UX artist A UI/UX artist creates the visual aspects of a game’s user interface, menus, icons and other interactive components. They must be familiar with game engine capabilities and the technical limitations of the assigned platforms.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

iXie is an Indian company that was founded in 2011 and is a division of Indium, a global digital engineering company. In addition, Keywords Studio offers UI/UX design, visual effects, animation, and more. Art Services, Engineering, Audio Services, Functionality QA, Localization, Localization QA, and Player Support. 1518 Studios.

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Moonmana

JULY 26, 2022

Developing Pirates of Everseas (PoE), we’ve used proprietary C++ engine, server side in Java, and various admin tools for live-ops. 2 Engineers. 2 QA Engineers. 1 DevOps Engineer. Moonmana team adapted a custom C++ engine to support the new platform running on MacOS for the game. . 5 minutes read.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

Enhance User Experience (UX) Regression testing allows you to verify that existing video game capabilities work as intended, even after making updates. Therefore, it ensures your game code meets the predefined specifications and requirements, preventing unnecessary complexity and over-engineering. The outcome?

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Technical Director - Engineering lead. All engineers report to her. Architects the game’s major technical features and framework, then gradually shifts to managing the engineers that join the team and keeping them tasked out and productive. Engineering Engine Programmer : The closest to the hardware - how does the hardware work?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

was released a few weeks ago as a major update to our free and open source engine, bringing close to one year of development to our users. Since then, work has begun in Godot's master branch to merge the preliminary Vulkan support and start the rework of the engine internals that we had planned over the past two years.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Also, they ensure a seamless user experience (UX) regardless of the device used by the player. Unity Test Framework Unity is a popular game development engine. This engine features one of the most robust built-in automated test frameworks. They enable you to quickly adapt to new testing platforms.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That world is an advanced town on the moon designed on hard science and engineering. We need to draw in the many space engineers out there starving for the kind of space development they imagined when they chose their careers. Chances are, custom engine additions would break on 4.0. Use the good parts of the engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. While Godot Physics 3D is being worked on to become the default physics engine in 4.0, x when possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). Editor: Improve FileSystem dock sorting ( GH-50565 ).

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Mentoring and recruitment sessions cover designers, illustrators, UI/UX designers, riggers and technical roles and more. May London Unreal Meetup 9th | London, UK [link] A meetup for Unreal Engine users to learn and show off projects. Both experienced users and newcomers looking to get started with the Unreal Engine are welcome.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). Editor: Improve FileSystem dock sorting ( GH-50565 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 19, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Sync csproj when files are changed from the FileSystem dock ( GH-37149 ). C#: Replace uses of old Configuration and update old csprojs ( GH-36865 ). GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). Editor: Improve FileSystem dock sorting ( GH-50565 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We discussed with the core developers about hiring GDQuest (who have plenty of experience working with the engine documentation, with Nathan being one of our main docs contributors) to work on this task. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

In 2018 we had 5 students working on various features for Godot Engine, and you can read about their work in last year's progress report. This is to detect all the different VCS API implementations available with the engine. Project: Interactive Music for Godot Engine. Final (PR candidate): [link]. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 see Godot's Devblog for a preview of some things to come). But Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Editor: Account for file deletion and renaming in Export Presets ( GH-39434 ). API documentation updates. Editor translation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). Editor: Account for file deletion and renaming in Export Presets ( GH-39434 ). API documentation updates. Editor translation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ). Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This blog post is sponsored by Xsolla - a transaction and business engine that will accelerate your game commerce globally. Polish on UX does matter, great loading times, etc. This time around we decided to record our conversation - and add a bit more structure to it. Let us know how you liked it! What stage should the playable be at?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). You can read more about it in the GSoC 2022 progress report.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). You can read more about it in the GSoC 2022 progress report.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Level design is by far Enderal's biggest weakness, probably because it has to do with all the invisible aspects of level design. Lots of height variation and clutter = broken pathfinding.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

My grand idea of a huge battle between massive armies is mostly impossible if the engine can only handle 12 models animating on screen before the frame rate drops. That might mean working on combat, quests, cinematics, narrative, itemization, UX, enemies, levels/environments, or any of a number of other specialties.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Initially, the company struggled to compete in a hyper-competitive global market, and in a development sector that lacks sophisticated off the shelf game engines. The UX of everything to do with blockchain is still in a state where onboarding new players is very challenging.”

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

This, Brandon argued, seemed like a move away from the experienced game developers who understand the importance of user experience (UX), a critical element in creating these virtual worlds. In contrast, Apple, whose forthcoming VR products aim to prioritize UX, was commended.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the rest of us engine contributors did not stay idle in the meantime, and a strong focus was put on fixing as many issues as we could to make Godot 3.2 Almost every area of the engine has seen some degree of enhancement, and we encourage users to move their active projects to Godot 3.2 And indeed, shortly after releasing 3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). Editor: Improve FileSystem dock sorting ( GH-50565 ).

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