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JULY
The biggest month of 2020 for Forza news, July marked the Xbox Games Showcase where we announced an evolution of the Forza Motorsport franchise - Forza Motorsport. We can’t wait to share more details!

There will be plenty happening in 2021, but we couldn’t let this year end without looking back on the positives of 2020. It was a difficult year in many ways for so many of us – yet the creativity, competitive spirit, and sense of connection within the Forza community have kept us going all year long.

Thank you to all of our community for your support through 2020, and we wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy, and fun 2021. See you on the road!

Did I just learn that the new FORZA MOTORSPORT won't be released until Autumn?

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DEVELOPER CONVERSATION
We spoke with Andrew Sage from Playground Games (Forza Horizon 4) and Dan Tunnell from Turn 10 Studios (Forza Motorsport) for some insights into how the improvements have affected their studios.

Is the studio currently using Visual Studio 2019?
“We just moved the whole studio to Visual Studio 2019 in the last week of January 2021. We’ve had one of our development branches running it since before the holidays but it just reached broad adoption a couple of days ago.” – Dan

What were some immediate benefits that you saw from faster link times?
“The biggest benefit I see is improved iteration time. Even if we only shave 30 seconds off link time, multiplying that by the number of devs in the studio and the number of times they compile each day becomes a large number really quick.” – Dan

What are some potential long-term benefits?
“One of the longer-term benefits is reduced build times on our server farm. If someone checks in code that breaks the build, the faster we catch it the less downtime we experience. It also gives us faster tooling iteration since the time between a developer checking in new tooling code and the build system checking in new tools binaries is reduced. Additionally, there’s reduced time for “validation” builds. Prior to checking in, each developer builds a representative sample of the game binaries to ensure that they haven’t broken anything. This slows iteration (I’m sure you can see a pattern emerging – iteration time is king) and anything we can do to speed that up is extremely valuable.” – Dan

How might the link time improvements change the workflow patterns of the studio?
“If I were to guess, I’d say that we’ll see less build breaks. Validation builds take a significant amount of time to complete. Even though they’re required, sometimes developers will omit that step if they’re in a hurry and feel confident that their fix is trivial enough to be safe. The faster the build times are the lower that barrier to entry is and the more likely people will perform that step even for changes they consider to be trivial and/or safe. I also think we might see less code changes between compilations. The longer compilation and linking takes the more code a developer will add before they hit the button to compile. If compilation and linking is almost instantaneous, most developers will use that as a quick sanity check to verify that the method/function/class/etc. that they just added compiles before moving on.” – Dan

What have T10 been doing for 4 years?

from what i saw on this weeks livestream schedule, i think were set to get some forza motorsport news on thursday, as thats when we're presumably getting april forza monthly. i honestly hope i wasnt speculating about something that was gonna be an april fools joke.

from what i saw on this weeks livestream schedule, i think were set to get some forza motorsport news on thursday, as thats when we're presumably getting april forza monthly. i honestly hope i wasnt speculating about something that was gonna be an april fools joke.