Houdini Gets Substance Integration
Houdini is a 3D content creation application with a procedural bent. Substance is a Physically Based Renderer (PBR) for creating real world materials and texturing them. The two products just came...
View ArticleRPGMAKER MV On Steam Free Weekend Promo
RPGMaker, the seminal, um... RPG (role playing game) maker, is currently available for free on Steam over the weekend and available for a sale price of 50% off. RPGMaker is a complete game engine...
View ArticleSpriter R8 Released
BrashMonkey just released Spriter Release 8. Spriter is a 2D boned based animation system, very similar in scope to Spine that we just recently covered. It enables you to animate 2D images by...
View ArticleUrhoSharp Release Version 1.0.557
UrhoSharp is a fork of the Urho3D game engine to C#, originally created by Xamarin the end of last year. Originally Xamarin screwed the licensing up but have since addressed that mistake. This...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–May 30/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending May 30h, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleUnity Pricing Changes
Today at the Unite Europe, Unity announced some pretty substantial pricing changes. Let’s start off by looking at the existing price structure: What I didn’t show above was the personal license....
View ArticleKrita 3 Released
Krita is a free and open source 2D sketching and painting application released under the GPL license. They just announced a milestone with the release of version 3. The focus of Krita 3 is...
View ArticleUnity Launch “Unity Connect” Beta
The news of the day out of Unity’s Unite Developer Conference is no doubt the Unity price changes. However there were a few other announcements during this rather lackluster keynote. Some talk about...
View ArticleDefold Engine 1.2.82 Released
Defold is a cross platform 2D focused Lua powered game engine created by King and available for free. If you want to learn more about Defold, check the video review out below. Today they just...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.1.0 Released
Cocos Creator is a JavaScript based game engine and editor built on top of the Cocos2d-x project. I did an in-depth “hands on” video a few months back if you are interested in learning more. Today...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.12 Released
After several weeks of preview released, Unreal Engine 4.12 is finally here. Hands down the biggest new feature is the Sequencer.Sequencer combines the power of a non-linear editor with 3D animation...
View ArticleLeadWerks 4.1 Beta
Leadwerks just released Leadwerks 4.1 beta. Leadwerks is a game engine that claims to be the easiest way to build 3D games. It is loaded with tutorials and samples to help get a user started and...
View ArticleGLFW 3.2 Released
GLFW, a library providing cross platform window and input handling functionality for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and now Vulkan applications, just released version 3.2. The aforementioned Vulkan support is...
View ArticleSubstance Painter 2.1 Released
Substance Painter is an extremely popular PBR (Physically Based Renderer) texturing tool, now integrated into just about every single modern game engine. They just released Substance Painter 2.1 with...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–June 5th/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending June 5th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleLWGJL 3.0.0 Released
LWJGL (Light Weight Java Game Library), a set of Java bindings for several low level libraries ( Open GL, ES, Vulkan, OpenCL, GLFW, etc. ) just released version 3.0.0 after 3 years in development....
View ArticleUnity Blog Post About Pricing Changes
As you may recall, last week Unity announced some pretty major price changes. The response has not exactly been great, especially among those that purchased their PRO license outright. Yesterday,...
View ArticleV8 JavaScript Engine Version 5.2
V8 is a popular embeddable JavaScript engine, perhaps most famously used to power the popular Node development framework or as the JavaScript engine used by Chrome. They just announced the release of...
View ArticleVR Support Coming In Lumberyard 1.3
In a recent blog post the Amazon developer team discussed the upcoming support for VR devices in Lumberyard 1.3. This support comes in two forms, supporting actual VR devices in your game and using...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.12.1 Hotfix
Fast on the heels of their Unreal Engine 4.12 release, Epic have just released hotfix 4.12.1 for UE4. This hotfix is predictably enough composed entirely of fixes. The complete list of fixes...
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