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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future).

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Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Render Animation Animation

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Render Animation Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. now and read on to learn more about the many new features in this update. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling.

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UX Feature Culling Mesh

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The mockup is also missing some components that eventually must be considered, such as what text over the map might look like as far as object labels and other info overlays, but that’s not important right now, more of a detail to consider when the time comes, assuming the fundamental feature even works out at all. But it did work!

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Render Engine Engineering FPS

Agile input processing is here for smoother, more responsive gameplay

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2021

In a game engine, the engine loop is the sequence of steps that is happening again and again to let the game run. This includes rendering, physics, input processing, and more. Consider a game that wants its gameplay logic and physics to run at 60 FPS. Old behavior in Godot 3.3.x x and before.

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FPS Render Engine Engineering

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 billion triangles running over 60 FPS in 4K on an NVIDIA 3060Ti.

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Mesh Culling Ray Tracing Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 14, 2021

RC 7 post for details on new features. For 2D rendering, we're also re-adding some testing options which were used in earlier betas to allow users to test different scenarios which may impact performance for some OpenGL drivers (especially on Windows and macOS). Please report if you see any suspicious FPS drop in RC9 compared to RC8!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Alpha Dev Beta Render

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Today NVIDIA is releasing Streamline, an open-source cross-IHV framework that aims to simplify integration of multiple super-resolution technologies and other graphics effects in games and applications. It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Game Developer Game Development

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). beta 1 and RC 1.

Collision

Collision Mesh Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). RC 1 and RC 3.

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). RC 4 and RC 5.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). RC 3 and RC 4.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). RC 5 and RC 6.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Some regressions were noticed after the release though, so we decided that Godot 3.2.3

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). A new 3.2.3

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Collision Build Texture

AWS for Games at Gamescom 2023

AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Travian Games – founded in Germany in 2005 and known for strategy games such as Travian: Legends, Crowfall, and Rail Nation, Travian Games needed a new solution to support its 25 million registered players and make it simpler for its developers to focus on creating new features. Learn more. Read the blog to learn more.

Games

Games AI Engine Engineering

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. and no WASM.)

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Sprite Simulation Build Animation

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