Are you ready for The Game Awards 2024? The craziest rumor: Half-Life 3 can be announced today!

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#meme@GameDEV

V-RAY is now available for Blender as a free beta! Imagine how crazy the time we live in, if Chaos Software is not just 3Ds Max sidekick anymore 😉

UPD: Did you know that the company was founded in Bulgaria?

https://www.chaos.com/vray/blender
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#Free@GameDEV
#3DsMax@GameDEV

Godot 4 Bistro with film grain, lens distortion, vignette, chromatic aberrations, and more.

The shader is Free on GitHub

#Shaders@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Shader Graph she told you not to worry about! (FULL)

#Shaders@GameDEV

Yeah, ray marching from Tiny Glade explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusWW2pPnA0

#Rendering@GameDEV

🔥 It's time, folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnUQ-qKsdQ

#TheGameAwards@GameDEV

The Witcher 4 is about Cirilla and her journey of killing monsters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA

Apparently, there are games on TGA! 🔥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcwngWPXQtg

Programming, but in full sentences! 😅

#Programming@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

The most important award was given to Amir: he fought with layoffs by composing new job openings and CVs of ones who lost jobs, so it will be easier for them to look for new roles and for HRs to find new staff members

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMXa97WzWM
#Layoffs@GameDEV

A better posterization shader with color ramp (+ pixelization to achieve retro look)

#Shaders@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

The Baldur's Gate 3 has been review bombed on Steam by Chinese players! Why, you may ask? Sven announced Astrobot as the game of the year on TGA, when he had to announce Wukong as the honest person supposed to.

😅 10000 IQ move!

#Steam@GameDEV
#TheGameAwards@GameDEV

Godot 4.4 will feature the new fast baked shadows for distant objects. It still leaves enough room for proper dynamic shadows nearby the camera, but distant ones can now use predefined shadows from the main directional light.

The new shadow can be drawn at nearly infinite distance, compared to only a few hundred meters where the shadow map is drawn. It will make outdoor scenes way more believable.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/85653

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

🤩 Meanwhile, my son is making Mouthwashing fan art!

#2DArt@GameDEV
#FanArt@GameDEV

Akira reference 🤔

The metal band Nanowar decided to sing in Java!

#Java@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV
#music@GameDEV

Godot Engine released its 2024 showreel, leaving many amazing projects behind. Definitely "suffering from success" moment — there are too many good games to show them all in 5 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Lon_Q2T18

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Yeah! Wait...

#RayTracing@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Switch 2 in a case (from Dbrand, one of the accessories companies). The device is slightly bigger and has some extra buttons here and there.

Yay or nay? 😁

#Hardware@GameDEV
#Nintendo@GameDEV

Hardware Unboxed discussed noise, created by all modern lighting systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ZHzJ_bhaI

#Rendering@GameDEV
#RayTracing@GameDEV

People were mad that Cirilla (almost a goddess) somewhy decided to also become a Witcher in the timeline where almost all of them are already gone and their practices are forgotten. CDPR owns the Witcher and their word is canon. Deal with it!

#RPG@GameDEV
#TheWitcher@GameDEV