2018 was an interesting year in game development. In this post/video, we take a quick stroll down memory lane and look at some of the key stories as they occurred throughout
the year.
- Epic Games Giveaway a Ton of Assets for Free
- COATools 1.0 For Blender Released
- Godot 3.0 Released
- Unity Release 2D Gamekit For Free
- HaxePunk 4.0 Released
- Unity Acquire ProBuilder And Release Tools for Free (Eventually packaged in Unity)
- Phaser 3.0 Released
- Vulkan for iOS/MacOS Added in Form of MoltenVK
- RenderDoc 1.0 Released
- Unreal Engine 4.19 Released
- Microsoft Announced DXR – Direct X Raytracing
- Epic Games Give Away $12M in Paragon Assets
- Unity Release C# Code (Not Open Sourced)
- Krita 4.0 Released
- System Shock Source Code Released
- Blender Game Engine Removed From Blender 2.8 Codebase
- Godot Gets CSG Support
- PlayCanvas Game Engine Turns 1
- Unity 2018.1 Released
- Autodesk Sketchbook Released Free
- Visual Studio Intellicode Launched
- SFML 2.5.0 Released
- Armory 3D Game Engine Released
- Apple Deprecates OpenGL Support
- Microsoft Acquires GitHub
- Armory Engine Patreon Problems
- Epic Change Unreal Engine Marketplace Revenue Split
- Unity 2018.2 Released
- Godot Visual Shader Back in Godot 3
- Coppercube 6 Released and Now Free Version Available
- Tile Engine Open Sourced
- Raylib 2.0 Released
- Unreal Engine 4.20 Released
- Pixel GameMaker MV Released
- ToyEngine Released
- Xenko 3.0 Released And Open Sourced
- WaveEngine 2.5.0 Released
- GDScript Typed Support
- Cocos Creator 2.0 Released
- Filament Open Source PBR Renderer Released
- Valve Released Proton
- Limon Open Source Game Engine
- Tiled 1.2 Released
- Open Match – Open Source Matchmaking Unity+Google Partnership
- CryEngine 5.5 Released
- Minecraft Open Sourcing
- Materialize Released (Then Open Sourced)
- PixelMash Pixel Art Software Released
- Discord Game Store Launched
- Unity 2019.1 Alpha Launched (First Alpha Release)
- Unity Release Massive FPS Example
- Unreal Engine 4.21 Released
- Blender 2.80 Beta Released
- Duality 3.0 Released
- Epic Games Launch New Game Store with 88/12 Revenue Split
- NVidia Open Source PhysX
- Cocos Creator 2.1 Released (Now with 3D)
- Epic Games Announce Free Online Services