Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

You do some normal set of inputs and the aberrant behavior appears. Platform-specific - The bug only shows up on a particular platform (e.g. PS4, Linux dedicated server, Windows 10 service pack 2, etc.) Sometimes a bug is difficult to reproduce.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

The creators of the popular JetBrains Rider IDE wrote on their blog“ At present, Unity stands out as one of the most popular and versatile cross-platform game engines available, catering to the creation of 2D, 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality games. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”.

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Game Errors

MARCH 31, 2023

Disable background apps Update the GPU driver Tweak Elden Ring graphics settings Verify game files 1. You might need apps like Steam and Discord while you play Elden Ring, so disable overlay in the app settings instead of disabling the app. Navigate to the Graphics Settings (monitor icon). Get DriverFix 3.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The specifics of each game vary depending on various parameters, such as the source and target platforms and creative license used. Game porting involves adapting a game initially designed to run on a specific platform to run on another or several other platforms. But what is game porting? Let’s find out. What is Game Porting?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Editor: Allow negative contrast values in the editor theme settings ( GH-48540 ). Lightmapper: Add support for ARM64 architecture for the raycaster (Apple M1, Linux aarch64) ( GH-48455 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Editor: Allow negative contrast values in the editor theme settings ( GH-48540 ). Lightmapper: Add support for ARM64 architecture for the raycaster (Apple M1, Linux aarch64) ( GH-48455 ). stable ( GH-48268 ). release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2021

Goodbye server platform, hello headless display! One of the emergent feature of Godot that users have discovered and really started to like is its ability to run on a headless Linux machine and act as game server. Over time, macOS support was added to the server platform, and users showed interest in a windows server.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Games are increasingly cross-platform and online, and game developers need to develop secure and scalable backend features to support these online elements of their games. Developers also want to allow players to play with their friends across platforms, and move gameplay between those platforms to provide a seamless player experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

My name is Cheese, and I'm an Australian independent game developer/Linux porter/freelance generalist based in the small island of Tasmania. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. How do you find Godot's multi-platform support, both for the editor and your final project?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Editor: Allow negative contrast values in the editor theme settings ( GH-48540 ). Lightmapper: Add support for ARM64 architecture for the raycaster (Apple M1, Linux aarch64) ( GH-48455 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. It is available for Linux and Windows and I released it in September 2020. And while learning to use it, I realized it already had the necessary set of tools to pull out my game ideas. You can find it as Early Access in Steam.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Users can optimize its multiple modes for each specific task—for example, RP4K’s high school students might set it up one way for Python and another for C++. Vim can be used with any major platform, making it perfect for collaborations with peers. In other words, you don’t need to type a set of commands each time you want them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

iOS: Remove duplicate orientation settings in the iOS export preset ( GH-48943 ). Linux: Fix crash when using ALSA MIDI with PulseAudio ( GH-48350 ). macOS: Fix custom mouse cursor not set after mouse mode change ( GH-49848 ). Porting: Fix Directory::get_space_left() result on macOS and Linux ( GH-49222 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

iOS: Remove duplicate orientation settings in the iOS export preset ( GH-48943 ). Linux: Fix crash when using ALSA MIDI with PulseAudio ( GH-48350 ). macOS: Fix custom mouse cursor not set after mouse mode change ( GH-49848 ). Porting: Fix Directory::get_space_left() result on macOS and Linux ( GH-49222 ).

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 26, 2020

Here is our announcement trailer : With the Switch release, Game Dev Tycoon will be available on PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android (mobile, tablet and Chromebook) and Nintendo Switch.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It comes with support for OpenVR on 64-bit Windows and on Linux. We'll add more platforms as testing is rounded off. On Linux it is important that Godot is started from the Steam runtime or it will not find Steam VR. There are also several premade scenes in the module to help you get set up faster.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

iOS: Remove duplicate orientation settings in the iOS export preset ( GH-48943 ). Linux: Fix crash when using ALSA MIDI with PulseAudio ( GH-48350 ). macOS: Fix custom mouse cursor not set after mouse mode change ( GH-49848 ). Porting: Fix Directory::get_space_left() result on macOS and Linux ( GH-49222 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Primal Light is a linear 2D action platformer for Windows, Mac, and Linux. How do you find Godot's multi-platform support, both for the editor and your final project? It was released on July 09, 2020 and is available on Steam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Rename PopupMenu set / get_current_index() to set / get_focused_item() ( GH-65423 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). Import: Fixed lossy_quality setting for ETC import ( GH-44682 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). Import: Fixed lossy_quality setting for ETC import ( GH-44682 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates. If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Linux support for this feature is temporarily missing in this build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 2, 2018

The most important new feature for this release is initial support for Mono exports on the desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, and MacOSX). As always, you will find the binaries for your platform on our mirrors: Classical version: [ HTTPS mirror ]. on Linux and Windows and Mono 5.8 This is being investigated.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). Stay tuned for more info! New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 14, 2018

I believe the problems have now been solved but please test on all your platforms! The most important user-visible changes compared to rc1 are that now the Mono builds should work on all platforms, and rc2 restores support for Windows 7. on Linux and Windows and Mono 5.8 This is why it took a while to get rc2 out.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re Monolith of Minds, two brothers from Germany who set out to tell tall tales of stray heroes and kind monsters. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. How do you find Godot's multi-platform support, both for the editor and your final project?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). VisualScript: Improve and streamline VisualScriptFuncNodes Call Set Get ( GH-50709 ). Editor: Implement a %command% placeholder in the Main Run Args setting ( GH-35992 ). Input: Add support for physical scancodes, fixes non-latin layout scancodes on Linux ( GH-46764 ).

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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. Core: Make {call,set,notify}_group() immediate by default ( GH-51591 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ). Linux: Fix issues related to delay when processing events ( GH-42341 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ). Linux: Fix issues related to delay when processing events ( GH-42341 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

You can revert back either of them to octree in the Project Settings. New AspectRatioContainer Control node to easily set up UIs that should respect a given aspect ratio. Android: Fix screen orientation settings and API ( GH-43022 , GH-43248 ), GH-43511 ). iOS: Add touch delay value to project settings ( GH-42457 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). Editor: Improve 3-to-4 converter performance and add option to set maximum line length to prevent freezes ( GH-64396 ). Linux: Fix some X11 issues with fullscreen and window focus ( GH-64969 , GH-64943 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The 'server' platform is back as it was in Godot 2.1. It is now again possible to run a headless Godot on Linux. If you missed them you can enable them in the editor settings. You can set the tcp_nodelay flag on a StreamPeerTCP with the set_no_delay method. Fixes to HTTP requests on the HTML5 platform.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Thanks to lawnjelly 's expertise, you will now find a sweet new option hidden in the project settings.

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