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. But what makes Unity so popular among developers?

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Game From Scratch

MAY 9, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Cyclops Level Builder For Godot Cyclops is a new free and open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables rapid level creation. This enables you to rapidly block-in or white box levels in Godot, with tools for block creation, quick texturing, snapping and more.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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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. What is Unity?

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. Yet, those professionals in mobile game development services know how to tackle these challenges. But the chaos and the desire to create visually stunning and immersive games fuels their determination. Every aspect of the game undergoes examination.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nearly every industry will evolve courtesy of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – and the gaming sector isn’t an exception. Generative AI is one of the technologies with the potential to revolutionize how developers create games. How will it transform the gaming landscape? But what is generative AI?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Unity is synonymous with game developers around the world. Ever since its release in 2005, the game engine has seen several iterations and has evolved significantly over the years. The game engine has amassed popularity thanks to its versatility and ease of use compared to other engines in the market.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Game creators today, release a large number of video games based on the taste and budget of their customers. Some of these games are not as famous as their creators and publishers would like, while others are increasing in fame and sales. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ).

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 9, 2022

Are you passionate about video games and want to try creating your own for a living? The gaming industry is no longer a niche, and there are lots of opportunities from major studios through to indie developers. Here is our guide on how to get a career in video games. Here is our guide on how to get a career in video games.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Many friends associate post-effects with AAA 3D games, but in reality, their application is also extensive in 2D game development. Properly utilizing post-effects can significantly enhance the visual quality of a 2D game by several levels.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Due to this, it is now possible to associate a roughness texture with a normal texture, which will adjust roughness based on normal mipmap variance. While it more or less retains the functionality from Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Editor: Fix setting NodePath properties on multiple nodes at once ( GH-51981 ). GLES3: Fix Light2D UBO initialization ( GH-52243 ).

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We make a fun coding curriculum by putting video games at the centre of all our lessons. That’s why we put video games at the centre of all our lessons. The games we teach our students help us to achieve both objectives. The games we teach our students help us to achieve both objectives. What Games Do They Build?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ). XR: Make screen texture and depth texture work in Multiview ( GH-71455 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Make SurfaceTool.generate_normals() behave consistently with smoothing groups ( GH-68034 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. Do you have prior experience with other game engines?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). The illustration picture is from Fishards , a wacky fish-wizard PvP spell fighting game developed by Rivernotch Game Studio.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Will be fixed in the next build ( GH-57405 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt’s YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Editor: Fix setting NodePath properties on multiple nodes at once ( GH-51981 ). GLES3: Fix Light2D UBO initialization ( GH-52243 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. x was rather limited.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Import: Fix glTF texture filename decoding ( GH-57685 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ). The illustration picture is from BLASTRONAUT , a gorgeous exploration and mining game set in a vast procedurally generated alien world, developed by Perfoon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). HTML5: Fetch API now passes credentials ( GH-57934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Import: Print a warning when importing a repeating NPOT texture in a GLES2 project ( GH-48817 ). so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Support Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Import: Fix glTF texture filename decoding ( GH-57685 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ). GUI: Label: Fixed leading spaces pushing text outside autowrap boundary ( GH-60233 ). GUI: LineEdit: Fix clear button position for asymmetric StyleBox ( GH-61496 ).

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Game Errors

MARCH 24, 2023

Grand Theft Auto is one of the most successful game series ever, yet GTA 5 stuttering that many players complain about can bring a lot of frustration. The game engine used by GTA 5 doesn’t even favor players with high-end gaming setups. How to fix GTA 5 stuttering? Double-click on the Display adapters section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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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 Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). What’s new.

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