Godot Engine Developer

    Great news for the end of the week!     Godot Engine 4.0 Alpha 13 is released, that means tons of new cool features and improvements to see.   Godot Engine 4.0 Alpha 13 Released     As team announced there will be a feature freeze starting from next week Alpha 13 is released. For beta release, feature freeze is really important, every new feature needs time to be stabilized, until beta there will not be any new feature additions to engine. Developers will focus on stabilizing them.  New Features in Godot Engine 4 Alpha 13          Here is a short list for important new features: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Vector4, Vector4i and Projection types. Support for loading system fonts on desktop and iOS. Peer visibility support in MultiplayerSynchronizer. Variable Rate Shading support. Worker Thread Pool. Feature build profiles for cu...

      Godot Engine 4 is almost ready for Beta Phase! In this article i'll try to sum up what is new in Godot Engine 4, and try to introduce you new features.          I am following Godot Engine and using it for my projects for almost 4 years. I started to use Godot Engine, because it's size was only around 30 Mbs and it help me to create whatever i would like to create in 2D universe. Also instead of Unity, Godot uses physical pixels as measurement, which looks more logical for me.  What is New In Godot Engine 4       After Godot Engine 3 released, it started become more popular everyday. New donators and contributors jumped in project and it is growing!     Godot Engine 4 is a completely different stage for Godot Engine project, and 4th version of the engine will be a real improvement for the community. Let's have a look what is new in Godot Engine 4.   Editor Improvements    ...

      Before diving into any game engine we should start with talking about game development. Game development itself is an interdisciplinary area which involves programming, graphic design, sound design, story telling, marketing and user experience.      A perfect mix of them and balanced presentation of those disciplines gives us a good game.     Unfortunately, a brief introduction to game development will only cover programming side of those different disciplines.    Introduction to Game Development       I want to keep this article as simple as i can. I am not going to talk about complex rendering algorithms and their C++ implementations, and 1000 lines introductory code for drawing triangles in Vulkan. (Yes, we can do it later)     Simply, game development is looping / updated a lot of resources inside of a loop. As you may remember, target FPS count is around 60 for most of the game...

What is Godot Engine      In this article i'll try to answer question " What is Godot Engine ". This question is being asked by beginners a lot of times and they are comparing Godot with other Game engines. What is a Game Engine      Game development is very complicated area which includes very complex programming method and mathematical calculations. Game engines are tools designed to help us develop and design games. Most game engines come with required modules such as math, rendering, culling, particles etc to build games.      There are several game engines can be used to develop games. Some of the most popular games engine are:   Godot Engine Unity Unreal Engine Game Maker Studio Construct       Each game engine has it own advantages or disadvantages. Unity, Game Maker Studio and Construct are paid game engines. Their value added to game development is much more than their price.    ...