GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 19, 2023

That's up slightly from the 44% reported in the 2019 version of this survey and more significantly over the 38% who played when the first version of the poll was conducted in 2016. A survey of nearly 7,800 people conducted last June and July found that 45% of those aged 50 and over played video games at least once a month. Read more

Games 103

Games 103

Cocos

JANUARY 6, 2023

Reimplement reactor backends: select, poll. Now the default reactor backend is poll. yasio-3.39.6. Add compiler flag YASIO_DISABLE_POLL for switching to socket.select as same with previous releases. Add signal_blocker when create service thread. yasio-3.39.5. Fix no callback when resolve domain failed by getaddrinfo. yasio-3.39.4.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The previous PR only changed the event-driven synchronization mechanism to a per-frame polling synchronization mechanism. The reason for the problem is that DragonBone is syncing the bone transform to the nodes only during the rendering phase, when the physics has already been updated. The fix is to change the DragonBone sync timing.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2023

An [ informal twitter poll of my followers ] corroborated my experience. The percentage of applicants who manage to get past the initial contact - a callback from a recruiter - is, in my experience, usually between 0 and 25% for entry level positions. As for whether early birds have an advantage, the answer is yes.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

DECEMBER 9, 2020

From this meeting, a number of excellent observations and areas for improvement were made, which I will attempt to summarise below: The level of testing that went into the impact of polling the metrics endpoint was not high enough.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2018

Indicative poll : It's not mandatory, but to give us an idea of who to expect, you can add yourself to this poll. We may plan a Godot dinner and/or a real-life meeting if we have many community members around, so you can send me your contact details (email in the poll description) if you want to be in the loop.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2023

Discord bots can automate polls and questions of the day, adding interactivity and maintaining interest. Creating content aggregators allows fans to share their content across multiple social media platforms, fostering engagement and user-generated content.

Communications 104

Communications Content Media Platformer 104

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 11, 2024

Choosing won't be a breeze, so we might just need to flip a coin or run another poll. The votes are split right down the middle between The Deconstructor of Fun Awards and The Golden Twigs. Stay tuned for the grand reveal!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 9, 2018

Head over to this online poll , or answer it below: This poll is only for proposals and not the final vote, but you can "like" proposals made by others to help us filter the most interesting ones. We'll then make another poll on Tuesday 12 to select the final theme. Why only now?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2018

Head over to the Framaforms poll and pick your favourite theme :). We had dozens of great proposals for the jam's theme, and made a selection from those for you to vote on. The aim is now to select one theme, and everyone can vote for only one entry. We're quite hyped to see what the community will cook up during this jam!

Games 52

Games 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A recent informal poll done by lead developer Juan Linietsky showed that over 5% of those responding are already working on XR projects with Godot. According to this poll over a third of the Godot community is either planning to use, or are already using Godot for XR projects. The upcoming OpenXR plugin 1.1.1

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2018

” That means I’m doing a lot of polling and question-asking to see what people are into. I’ll be taking the lessons I’ve learned from Highways & Byways and making games more carefully next time. The big two lessons for me are “start by validating the market” and “don’t work alone.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 19, 2019

Note 1 : You don't have to poll each WebRTCPeerConnection separately, just call WebRTCMultiplayer.poll and it will poll all connections added via add_remote_peer. You can optionally add channels to it, but the first three (negotiated 1, 2, and 3) are reserved for the high level mutiplayer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

So, we ran a poll to determine which kind of visual scripting users wanted and most mentioned Blueprint style. According to our most recent poll (with more than 5000 respondents), only 0.5% That was not the case back then. With this information, VisualScript was created and published for Godot 3.0. No path forward.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

peers.append(dtls_peer) for p in peers: p.poll() # Must poll to update the state. = PacketPeerDTLS.STATUS_HANDSHAKING: continue # It is normal that 50% of the connections fails due to cookie exchange. print("Peer connected!") get_string_from_utf8()) p.put_packet("Hello DTLS client".to_utf8()). to_utf8()).

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Sometime around 2018, I did a major poll asking people what their favorite themes and mechanics were. You can play based on just your needs or with the intention to block your opponents from meeting theirs. There is a reason this mechanic is present in many BGG Top 100 Games such as Viticulture , Caverna , A Feast for Odin , and Agricola.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Networking: Make TCP poll explicit, drop is_connected_to_host ( GH-59582 ). GUI: RichTextLabel: Add context menu ( GH-60170 ). Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Navigation: Use ThreadWorkPool instead of thread_process_array in NavMap ( GH-60359 ). Networking: Allow branch-specific MultiplayerAPIs ( GH-57647 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2021

To achieve this, the engine needs to poll for the player's inputs from various sources, such as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad or touchscreen. Consider a game that wants its gameplay logic and physics to run at 60 FPS.

FPS 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

Yet if you were to look at Kickstarter, take some polls, and watch how people spend their money (and not what they say), you start to get a clearer picture. It’s a little more difficult to sum it up for board games since movies and music are both older industries with a lot more content to analyze.

Games 130

Games Fantasy Simulation Media 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

Polygon 52

Polygon Bug Render Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix].

Baking 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ). Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ).

Render 52

Render Bug Collision Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet’s collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix].

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

You’ll probably want to do this by category for example, “Clicks” will include purchases and other interactions like seeing advertisements or participating in polls/surveys. First, choose metrics to track: clicks, revenue per user, and time played per user.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

I recall a Twitter poll recently which asked Godot users what should be focused on in the near future. I know some people would like to see a sprite editor in the engine (similar to what you have in GMS2), but I never encountered a use case for that in my own development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 20, 2023

Of those polled, 79% of them were gaming enthusiasts, and 47% of that subset played on more than one platform (the poll considered PC, mobile, and console each to be a single platform). Some of the key takeaways involved multiplatform players.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 22, 2023

Transient data can’t be easily shared between states (if a state provides data, it may need to be saved to a more global location for use by other states) These are all issues that I feel are solved by using async and await.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We can poll our CombatResultSystem for an optional result – so when the combat is undecided it will return null. Otherwise, it can tell us whether or not the adventurer was victorious or not.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 4, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta in a March blog post Recent poll results hint at what might increase job satisfaction for remote workers. “Our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 7, 2020

They made sense when we were started out with the sole expectation to hire me full-time while allocating some of my time to Patreon perks, but as the project grew exponentially, it became increasingly hard to dedicate time to our complex poll system, and to fit its results in our schedule for the engine, docs and demos.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The trigger can poll the queue to monitor incoming user session requests. It allows us to relay the signaling server information to the user as opposed to requiring the user to poll at regular intervals, inquiring about availability of a signaling server. The user can then leverage the server for starting their session.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 26, 2023

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We wait to receive specific events, or abort in case of timeout. Pull Request: GH-42652.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

Board gamers, based on a number of polls I’ve done on Facebook groups, Board Game Geek, and Twitter, are really into that. If you go run a poll on favorite components, custom meeples is likely to be in the top three. They have several reviews and testimonals.

Games 130

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To determine the selection, we poll each frame for user input using our new input system. In the event that the Confirm action has been selected, we can break out of the polling loop and return the action at our selection.

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