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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game? Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath.

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

const vec3 weight = vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722); vec3 Grayscale(in vec3 o, float value){ float lumin = dot(o, weight); vec3 final = mix(o, vec3(lumin), value); return final; } vec4 frag() { vec4 pixel = texture(mainTexture, v_uv); pixel.rgb = Grayscale(pixel.rgb, intensity); return pixel; } 2. Preview to see the effects.

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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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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. beta 3, only classical build for now).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ).

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Vulkan progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. if something that worked fine in 3.2.3

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