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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. I find this makes code simpler and easier to maintain and optimize (a testament to this is how tiny Godot's codebase is compared to other game engines, while providing similar levels of functionality). Game logic.

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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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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. Mobile GPUs are very different from desktop GPU, to make better use of limited access to fast memory mobile GPUs use a tile based architecture. The source for this plugin can be found here.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). 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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Atari ST Programming: A Simple Game in STOS

Retro Game Coders

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Avoid the Monster.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). Rendering: Portals: Allow user to set roaming expansion margin ( GH-54921 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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