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Urho3D 1.5 Released
Urho3d, an open source 3D engine we took a closer look at last year, just released version 1.5. From the release notes:Database subsystem with either SQLite or ODBC support. Localization subsystem....
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Unreal Engine 4.10 Released
Unreal Engine 4.10 was just released today.Welcome to Unreal Engine 4.10! This release is packed with a number of great new features, but our main focus has been to increase engine stability and fix...
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Cocos2D-x V3.9 Released
Announced over at the Cocos2D-x blog today, they just released version 3.9 of the popular cross platform open source 2D based C++ framework. The release is primarily for maintenance and stability but...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.2.2p4 Released
A new patch has been released for Unity 5 with the following bug fixes and improvements:ImprovementsAdded warning for NetworkIdentity on child game objects. Better error messages when network packets...
View ArticleGameFromScratch.com’s List Of Newsworthy GameDev Topics
I have noticed that there isn’t one good single source for game development news. When a new game engine is announced or a new version of a critical tool, library or engine is released, there is no...
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Microsoft Launch Free Visual Studio Dev Essentials
Microsoft is a different sort of company these days. Starting back in 2014 they released the free community edition of Visual Studio. Then in April of this year they launched the light weight and...
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GameGuru 1.1 Released
The Game Creators have just released version 1.1 of GameGuru. This update focuses primarily on performance improvements. Release details follow:GameGuru UpdateAs regular followers of these GameGuru...
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Xamarin 4 Released
Xamarin, the popular cross platform .NET toolchain just released version4. From the announcement:Xamarin Platform – native, cross-platform appsXamarin.Forms 2.0Since releasing Xamarin.Forms last...
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Goo Engine Now Open Source under MIT License
The Goo game engine released the code under the MIT license, as announced here. What is Goo? It’s the underlying 3D engine that powers the Goo Create editor which enables you to create WebGL games...
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Google Release New GameDev Libraries and a Sample Open-Source Game
As part of Google’s ongoing developer conference Fun Propulsion Labs, a Google team dedicated to gaming, released the open source game Zooshi to showcase a number of just announced or updated game...
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Leadwerks Now Supports SteamOS… Sorta
The Leadwerks Game Engine game launcher now works with SteamOS with a few caveats. From the Leadwerks blog:Leadwerks Game Launcher now works with SteamOS, with some caveats.First, you must set the...
View ArticleAllegro.js A New JavaScript Library Inspired by Allegro
I remember using Allegro wayyyyyy back in the day in the early 1990s. It was one of few graphics libraries available for DOS based machines (even though it started life as an Atari library) and...
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RoboVM 1.11 Released
RoboVM, the makers of technology that enabled you to run Java applications (such as LibGDX) on iOS, just released version 1.11. The major features of this release are Bitcode, iOS 9.1 and Kotlin...
View ArticleNCSoft Add JavaScript Support to Unreal Engine
Until now your language choices when using Unreal Engine have either been the high level graphical Blueprints or low level C++. Today however NCSoft, makers of Lineage, Guildwars and more just...
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The First LibGDX Jam is a Go. Topic Voting Begins Now
As per this blog post the first ever LibGDX game jam is happening in mid December and topic voting has begun. From the announcement:The 10 Rules of JammingYou must use libGDX to create a game that...
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Android Studio 2.0 Preview Available
At the Android Developer Summit, Google just announced Android Studio 2.0 is available for download in preview form. The two major new features will both be relevant for game developers, Instant Run...
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Massive Release of Infocom Text Adventure Design Documents
Today over 4000 documents from Infocom were released on archive.org as the Infocom cabinet. This collection of documents contains reams of design information from many classic text adventures...
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The GIMP Turns 20 with Release 2.8.16
It’s hard to believe that GIMP (General Image Manipulation Program) has now been around for 20 years. To go along with the 20th anniversary, they also released version 2.8.16. The following from the...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 4.6.9p3
Unity have just released patch 4.6.9p3 for Unity 5.2. From the patch http://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases:As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed...
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Free Construct 2 Book “Level Zero”
Over on the Construct2 blog there is this announcement of a new free e-book Level Zero about programming games from scratch using Construct2. This recently published book "Level 0" is a resource...
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