Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem, making Quick Open work with custom resources ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ).

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

To ensure compatibility, you should identify the features and tools essential for your chosen genre. The software should have features that match the goals of your project, regardless of how big or little your production is. The visual aspects of the game significantly impact player engagement and enjoyment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features. Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features.

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

Unity engine has long been a favorite among game developers, offering an extensive set of tools and features to create high-quality games. Its advanced scripting language and extensive documentation make it a go-to choice for many developers, especially those with experience in C#.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). It is developed by Chasing Carrots using Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ).

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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. Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. In simple terms, it involves applying after-effects to game visuals and is an essential feature in game development, often utilized to enhance the visual quality and presentation of games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

which will likely the last feature release in the 3.x GDNative: Fix script_data error when updating placeholder scripts for GDNative libraries ( GH-66255 ). GDScript: Fix Script editor completion doesn't suggest members of a script for type hints ( GH-48037 ). All contributors are incredibly busy working on Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We just announced that we'll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 Feature build profiles for custom builds. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Buildsystem: Implement feature build profiles ( GH-62996 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Core: More renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. Inside your Unity project, create a new folder and name it shader scripts. What Is a Shader?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we're happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here's beta 2!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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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. Being featured on these platforms can significantly increase a game's visibility and reach.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Game automation testing aims to address these challenges by leveraging automation tools and scripts. Automated game testing involves creating scripts or using testing frameworks to simulate player interactions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and UI interactions. Even minor changes can break automation scripts.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 31, 2023

Graphics and Rendering One of the most significant challenges in game test automation lies in dealing with the complexity of graphics and rendering. These tools often provide features like image recognition and comparison, allowing testers to validate the visual aspects of a game automatically. They expect things to work!

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

Get it for free: [link] Features in Cyberpunk Before we get started, let’s list out the features provided in Cocos Cyberpunk again. Get it for free: [link] Features in Cyberpunk Before we get started, let’s list out the features provided in Cocos Cyberpunk again. 7、scripts Store all of the gameplay scripts.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s understand the array of features that create such next-level user experiences. The different components of Unreal tech allowed the creators to create a feature-fed game while maintaining its performance. Persistent Experiences 5. Shared Experiences 6. People Occlusion 7.

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Febucci

MAY 14, 2022

The URP Roadmap says that it’s “in progress”, but even if this has been the case for a while now, we do have some features that can help us manually achieve the same result anyways (similar to the previous Post Processing Stack V2). Render the components that are present in the Volume Manager stack. ??? At the moment (URP 12.1.5,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A lot of new features were implemented for both 4.0 x, from Vulkan rendering to HTML5 export improvements. Many long-requested features are now available in the master branch, such as support for right-to-left typesetting and complex scripts (which are required to display text in Arabic, Hebrew, …).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Bump the minimum Android target API to 21 (Android Lollipop) ( GH-67610 ). Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ).

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There is not just one right path as the game features multiple endings, with randomized elements and unique events. Overall, I’d say that coming from the film industry definitely helped the script-writing process for games”, he says. Behind the scenes screenshot of the 3D environment rendered in voxels.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). API documentation updates.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., EDITOR Features ● Support for manually inputting iOS developer accounts. Fixed some npm libraries not working due to the use of ‘use strict’ when building scripts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we’re happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here’s beta 2!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. For things like the Script editor, this means you can move it to another screen, move the undocked window to be side-by-side with the main window, or just using Alt+Tab to change between the main window and the undocked one. Test the implement features and fix bugs.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 16, 2024

This rendered manual game testing more impractical. Testers use scripts, tools, and frameworks to perform systematic and repetitive tests. This ensures comprehensive test coverage across diverse game levels, platforms, and features. Scripting Complexity Creating test scripts for automated testing can be challenging.

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