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New Xamarin Features, Betas and More
Today Xamarin is holding their annual Xamarin Evolve developer event and their have been several noteworthy announcements. Ever since the Microsoft BUILD event last month, Xamarin for Visual Studio...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.12 Preview 2 Released
Epic have released another Unreal Engine preview, this time 4.12 preview 2. Unlike hotfixes, these releases introduce new features and are expected to be quite buggy, so buyer beware! The biggest...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.3.4p5 Released
Another Unity patch has been released. Other than an update in the Oculus Rift SDK and removal of the requirement for the OVRPlugin, this release is composed entirely of fixes. ImprovementsVR:...
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Wave Engine Launch Developer Contest with $30,000 In Prizes Available
Wave Engine, a game engine I covered here, just announced their 2016 developer contest with a $30,000 dollar prize pool, including $15,000 USD available to the first prize winner. The contest is...
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Lumberyard 1.2 Released
It was only a few months back that Amazon launched Lumberyard, their CryEngine powered game engine. In March they released Lumberyard 1.1 then earlier this week they just released Lumberyard 1.2. At...
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TexturePacker 4.2 Released
TexturePacker is a handy tool I’ve featured several times here on GameFromScratch as well as a video feature as part of the gamedev toolbox series. It’s one of those handy Swiss army style tools that...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–May 1, 2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending April 17th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.0.2 Released
Cocos Creator is a new game editor built over top of the Cocos2d-x JavaScript port. I did a hands on video with an earlier version of Cocos Creator if you are interested in learning more. This...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.12 Preview 2 Released
A second preview release for Unreal Engine 4.12 has been released. Once again this is a preview release, so expect some bugs and instability. According to Epic:This release comes with updates and...
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Substance Designer 5.4 Released
Substance Designer (and companion to Substance Painter covered in this video) is a tool that enables artists to define complex shaders for PBR (Physically Based Rendering) and is fast becoming the...
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Construct 2 Release Version r228
Construct is an HTML5 based game engine designed to create 2D games while requiring no coding. They just released a new update, r228, which should be considered a beta. New features in this update...
View ArticleUnity Game Engine Patch 5.3.4p6 Released
You have to love the new speed of releases for major game engines, it’s a great trend and I hope it keeps up. As the title suggests, Unity have released a new patch bringing the version to 5.3.4p6....
View ArticleTiled 0.16.1 Released
Tiled is a popular open source 2D map editor. If you are interested in learning more, I did a comprehensive tutorial series available here. They just released version 0.16.1. This release is...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–May 8th, 2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending April 17th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleKrita Launch 2016 Kickstarter Campaign To Improve Text And Vector Capabilities
Krita is a powerful open source 2D graphics package that’s targeted at digital painting instead of image manipulation. They have just launched another Kickstarter campaign looking to raise funds to...
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Shiva 2.0 Beta 6 Released
Shiva is a 3D game engine with a full WYSIWYG editor that is programmed using the Lua language with the option of creating plugins using C++. Shiva 2.0 has been in beta development for quite some...
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Banshee Engine v0.3 Released
This is one of those projects that just impresses the hell out of me. I first covered it back in January when v0.2 was released. Banshee Engine is a complete 2D/3D game engine and editor, written...
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Github Announces Pricing Changes
Today Github has announced a brand new and simplified pricing structure. Basically they have moved to a flat rate per user pricing, while removing the limit on number of private repositories on...
View Articlemint Alpha 2.0 Released
mínt is a renderer agnostic ui library for the Haxe language that is part of the snõwkit family of libraries. Put more simply, it’s a Haxe based cross platform UI library. As the headline above...
View ArticleCocos2d-x v3.11 Released
Cocos2d-x is a popular, cross platform C++ based game engine. If you are interested in learning more about Cocos2d-x, I have done a complete tutorial series here. Cocos2d-x just released a new...
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