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Introduction to GPUs with OpenGL
Nowadays, we have amazing engines like Unity and Unreal. But how does this work exactly? Learning 3D rendering or building your own engine is a daunting task. While there are some tutorials out there,
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Making Your Game Go Fast by Asking Windows Nicely
How to stop Windows throttling your game, set DPI awareness programatically, use Application Manifests in Rust and prefer discrete GPUs to integrated in OpenGL.
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Godot Engine Release Management: 4.0 and beyond
We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.
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Build Pong in Your Terminal with Go for Some Reason
Learn how to build a Pong game in your terminal using Golang and the tcell package. This tutorial covers the basics of creating a game, including w...
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Korg makes music with Raspberry Pi
Think of synth music, racks of keyboards, or massive DJ rigs, and Korg comes to mind. Raspberry Pi is at the heart of some of its new synthesizers.
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Lost “canceled” Squaresoft game 3156 Coro Coro located and preserved
Hello, Gaming Alexandria readers! It is me, Chris Kohler, former journalist, current game developer and forever fan of obscure old games. The good people at Gaming Alexandria have given me this space to make a fortuitous announcement: A long-lost Square game, previously thought to have been canceled, has now been…
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Facial hair tracking for high fidelity performance capture
Facial hair is a largely overlooked topic in facial performance capture. Most production pipelines in the entertainment industry do not have a way to automatically capture facial hair or track the skin underneath it. Thus, actors are asked to shave clean before face capture, which is very often undesirable. In this…
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Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2022
After a long wait, the Progress Report is back! This time it wasn't so much from a lack of content, but from a lack of content creators. The past three months had illnesses hit one of our writers and the other had a very challenging move. Even with these major hurdles jumped, we're not even close to 100% yet. It's…
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Dolphin Progress May and June 2022
It's been a very hectic two months. Dolphin's development builds officially dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 in 5.0-16393 when the Windows buildbots were updated to use Qt6. If you read the last Progress Report, you'd know that Windows 7 was already on shaky terms due…
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Perfecting WebGPU/Dawn native graphics for Zig
A 700+ commit complete rewrite of mach/gpu (the WebGPU interface for Zig) has been completed, enabling seamless use of Dawn (Google Chrome's WebGPU implementation) for native Zig applications.
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2022: A Retrospective
The year 2022 was very special for us. We reached a lot of milestones within Godot and also in the community. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year.
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Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (2012)
Sometimes, the complexity and overhead of a third-party physics library, such as Box2D, is overkill for your JavaScript game. In this article, walk through an implementation of a straightforward 2D physics engine. Learn to create a simple physics world with gravity and collision detection between game objects. This…
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Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)
Does your child love to draw? Ever wished that characters in their drawings could “come to life” and move around the page? Using AI, we’ve developed automatic animation that can bring children’s one-of-a-kind characters to life!
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Atari 800 Winter Solstice Celebration Demo 2022
Every December, I try to make a little wintery demo to exercise one of 8bitworkshop’s platforms. This year, I chose the Atari 800 to test out the new native TypeScript emulator in 8bitworkshop. You...
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Game engines are more than libraries glued together
Meme from the Twitter post by Juan Linietsky, creator of Godot , that inspired this blog post.
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Godot and consoles, all you need to know
The topic of running Godot games on consoles pops up very often. In this article you will find information about how console development works, the challenges that Godot faces for supporting those platforms and which alternatives exist to publish your games for them.