Defold Engine 1.2.84 Released
There is a new release of the Defold Game Engine, version 1.2.84. WebView is now available on mobile platforms with certain limitations. This release also includes improved sound on mobile devices...
View ArticleNew Corona SDK Release
Corona is a popular Lua powered mobile focused game engine, which just saw a new major release. Major features of this release include Spine animation support and support for high DPI screens on both...
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Lumberyard 1.3 Released
Lumberyard is Amazon’s new game engine based on a forked version of CryEngine. I did a short hands-on video of Lumberyard shortly after it was released if you want more information. Earlier this...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.5P6
Another week another Unity patch, this one version 5.3.5P6. In addition to the usual spate of bug fixes, this patch includes several improvements to audio functionality, a bump to Oculus 1.5 and has...
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Gideros 2016.6 Released
There is a new release of Gideros, a cross platform Lua powered mobile focused open source game engine. Release 2016.6 ( I like this naming convention by the way ) brings several new features and...
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NeoAxis 3.5 Released
NeoAxis, a .NET powered 3D game engine with full editor, just released version 3.5. The key features of this release are: Graphic user interface of the tools has been updated. A tool to easily import...
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Xenko Engine 1.7 Released
Xenko Engine, formerly Paradox 3D, just released version 1.7. I previously featured this engine as part of the Closer Look series if you are interested in learning more. Major features of this...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–July 4th/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending July 4th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleMicrosoft Officially Reject XNA 5
While not exactly earth shattering news, Microsoft today slammed the door on the idea of XNA 5. The following request was posted to the Visual Studio feedback systemPlease continue to work on XNA....
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Defold Engine Tutorial Series: Application Basics
In the previous tutorial we covered installing the Defold Engine and creating your first project. Today we are going to be looking at the overall structure of a Defold game, as it varies slightly...
View ArticleTiled 0.16.2 Released
Tiled, a popular open source 2D map editor, just released version 0.16.2. If you are interested in learning more about Tiled we have a complete tutorial series here on GameFromScratch. The 0.16.2 is...
View ArticleContinuous–C# and F# Development on iOS
Released just a few days ago on the App Store is Continuous, a complete C# and F# development environment that runs directly on your iPhone or iPad. It contains a fairly full featured IDE with...
View ArticleCocos2d-x 3.12 Released
Cocos2d-x is a popular open source C++ based cross platform game development library. If you are interested in learning more about Cocos2d-x, we have a complete tutorial series available here. The...
View ArticleMesa 12.0.0 Released
Mesa is a key component of OpenGL support on open source platforms and just announced release 12.0.0. Major features of this release are Vulkan drivers for Intel chipsets, OpenGL 4.3 support on...
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nVidia Release GameWorks Vulkan And OpenGL Samples 3.0
nVidia just released version 3 of their Gameworks OpenGL/Vulkan samples. The GameWorks samples is described as:The NVIDIA GameWorks™ Graphics samples are a comprehensive set of OpenGL, OpenGL ES and...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–July 11th/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending July 11th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleGodot 2.0.4 Released
Godot is a popular open source 2D/3D game engine. If you are interested in learning more I did a closer look review as well as a complete tutorial series. They just released Godot 2.0.4 in advance...
View ArticleOpenFL 4 Released
OpenFL, a Haxe library previously known as NME, just released version 4. OpenFL is a media framework often used for creating games that is designed to give Flash developers a transitional path to...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.1.2 Released
Cocos Creator is a game engine and editor built over top of Cocos2d-x for building mobile games using JavaScript. I created a hands-on review of an earlier version of Cocos Creator if you want to...
View ArticleTorque 3D 3.9 Released. Announce 4.0 Features
Today Torque 3D released version 3.9 and in a somewhat odd release blog post they spoke mostly about the plans for the next release. Torque is an MIT licensed open sourced 3D game engine written in...
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