Game From Scratch

MARCH 11, 2023

Release + Cyberpunk Demo The free cross platform 3D game engine Cocos Creator recently released Cocos 3.7 as well as a new Cyberpunk themed demo showcasing the new rendering capabilities of the engine. GameFromScratch.com Cocos Creator 3.7 New features of the Cocos 3.7.0 releases include: In addition to the 3.7

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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. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

Naturally, the process of building these experiences on AR/VR platforms calls for some of the most talented groups of developers who love a challenge. To understand AR/VR game development , one needs to understand the fundamentals of AR/VR as a platform. Why is AR/VR different?

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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. Read more on how we do that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Godot is a not-for-profit free and open source game engine which aims at empowering all users in their 2D and 3D game development projects. This includes cross-platform OpenXR support, an extended input action system for VR, Vulkan rendering and optimizations on mobile, and more! VR support in Godot. As of Godot 3.2,

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Accessibility is taking center stage, making the gaming world a welcoming space for everyone. But that’s not all! And guess what?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Given the scope of this change for all platforms, we expect some regressions, which will be fixed for beta 16. renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ).

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. Support for Several Different Platforms Unity was first made available for Mac OS X, but it currently supports over 25 other platforms, which increases the number of people who can play video games.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. NVIDIA Omniverse Unreal Engine 5 preview 2 Connector tutorial.

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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. Unity or Unreal?

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on. To be able to use the renderer in a game engine, you must either prepare a conversion pipeline instead of a renderer or use a game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Allow to apply the angular velocity of a moving platform ( GH-63650 ).

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

At GDC 2021, NVIDIA’s updates, enhancements, and platform compatibility expansions enable RTX to be turned ON for a larger base than ever before. Check out GDC 2021 announcements, video sessions, and game development demos on the NVIDIA at GDC Official Webpage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Rendering: Remove light from dynamic light list when removing scenario ( GH-71584 ).

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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. Also, rendering would happen at that very same pace, so everything stays in sync. Old behavior in Godot 3.3.x x and before.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Allow to apply the angular velocity of a moving platform ( GH-63650 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fix Ctrl/Cmd key remapping changes when moving from macOS to other platform ( GH-65241 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Input: Fix Ctrl/Cmd key remapping changes when moving from macOS to other platform ( GH-65241 ). Physics: Implement Area[2D/3D].has_overlapping_[bodies/areas]

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

From NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) to RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), our latest tools and technologies are helping game developers create realistic and stunning virtual worlds for gamers. NVIDIA DLSS Overview & Game Integrations This session will cover the technology that makes DLSS possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). We released Godot 3.4.1 This new Godot 3.4.2 Godot 3.4.2 is a recommended upgrade for all Godot 3.4 release notes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

The challenges that Godot faces for supporting those platforms. Which alternatives exist to publish your Godot games for consoles. This means that, on the whole public Internet, you will not be able to find (legally, at least): Any detailed public documentation on how consoles work (that was not reverse engineered).

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

Making a Mobile Game in Unity When thinking about game development, most people associate it with a time- and effort-consuming process that requires lots of resources and dozens of specialists to be involved (if we are talking about serious projects, of course). Unity supports 25+ different platforms in addition to Android and iOS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the Godot Engine project is receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs to support our work on the XR capabilities of the engine. This renews Reality Labs' engagement to support the free and open source Godot game engine, after a first grant in December 2020. Looking forward to 2022.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this blog, we will provide you with insights into various aspects of the Unreal Engine, including what sets the latest version, Unreal Engine 5, apart from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4. What is the Unreal Engine? The Unreal Engine is a 3D game engine that was first developed by Epic Games in 1998.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Rendering: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Rendering: Use full size mipmaps for reflections when in high-quality mode ( GH-62362 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The updates are available through NVIDIA SDKs and select technologies through the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX). Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. NVIDIA continues to make it easier for game developers using Unreal Engine to access leading-edge technologies.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Rendering: Fix refraction offset by manually unpacking normal mappings ( GH-48478 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Rendering: Implement MSAA for 2D with Vulkan ( GH-63003 ).

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs. Until now, this hasn’t been possible in video games in real-time. The developer resources listed below are exclusively available to NVIDIA Developer Program members.

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Nvidia

MAY 24, 2023

We have been encoding, decoding, and transcoding video on GPUs for over 10 years; offering a powerful platform for content creation and handling a million videos annually. LCEVC is particularly amenable to cloud gaming and VR/XR applications. LCEVC also leveraged ReCon, the new Video Codec SDK 12.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ). Rendering: Fix flipped binormal in SpatialMaterial triplanar mapping ( GH-49950 ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Automation testing can cover a wide range of scenarios, including stress testing, performance testing, and compatibility testing across different platforms and devices. To overcome this issue, the Game Test automation tools have incorporated certain techniques and underlying principles of kind and based on which they can even be classified.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

It includes notably Text-to-Speech support on all platforms (as a feature for games/applications, the Godot editor itself doesn't make use of it for now), and a refactoring of the module/extension initialization levels to allow more flexibility for third-party code. See the changelog on GitHub for an overview of all changes since 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Rendering: Fix refraction offset by manually unpacking normal mappings ( GH-48478 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Buildsystem: Refactor handling of production flag and per-platform LTO defaults ( GH-65745 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ). See the issue for a potential workaround.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They decide the game’s type, visual style (2D or 3D), characters, setting, and the platform it will be on. This stage turns ideas into tangible game elements. Every aspect of the game undergoes examination. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ). Rendering: Fix flipped binormal in SpatialMaterial triplanar mapping ( GH-49950 ).

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