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Godot Engine 2.1 Beta
Earlier today I somewhat belatedly mentioned the Godot 2.0.4 release. In that post I mentioned the upcoming 2.1 release... well I should have waited a few hours, as Beta 2.1 has just been released....
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.5p8
Another day another Unity patch. This one adds documentation for the display API and a handful of fixes including: ImprovementsGraphics: Documentation for Display API. Lighting: Improved an error...
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Spine 3.4 Released
Spine 3.4 was just released. Spine is a 2D bone based IK animation system I previously covered in depth here if you are looking for more information. The 3.4 release brings a number of new features...
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PlayCanvas Announce New Simpler Pricing
Last year I featured PlayCanvas in the Closer Look at game engine series. It’s a power HTML5 powered 3D game engine that was saddled with a rather confusing pricing model. Pricing previously looked...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–July 18th/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending July 18th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleUnity 5.3.6 Released
After several weeks of patches, Unity 5.3.6 has been released. Technical errors (as you may be able to tell from the URL) resulted in me posted the wrong version/release, sorry about that. The...
View ArticleUnity Take A Small Step Toward Modern C# Support
One of the most rage inspiring things about Unity is it uses a version of Mono ( the C# runtime and compiler used by Unity ) is absolutely ancient. In fact it’s about 7 years out of date and a lot...
View ArticleUnity Preview Splash Screen Tools
Somewhat recently Unity announced new pricing that didn’t exactly make Unity developers the world over cheer. Then a few weeks later, they announced newer and much improved pricing. Part of this new...
View ArticleKhronos Group Release Vulkan-Hpp
Khronos Group, the organizational body behind OpenAL, OpenCV, OpenGL and it’s successor Vulkan, have just released Vulkan-hpp on Github.Khronos introduces Vulkan Hpp, an open source Vulkan C++ API....
View ArticleBDX game Engine 0.25 Released
BDX can best be though of as a mashup between Blender and LibGDX, a game engine built on top of the LibGDX framework, directly integrated inside the Blender application. This enables you to create...
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Autodesk Release Stingray 1.4 and Maya LT 2017
Today at SIGGRAPH 2016, Autodesk announced updates to both their Stingray game engine and Maya LT, the indie focused version of their Maya content creation application. The Stingray Game Engine...
View ArticleAllegorithmic Announce Substance Suite Free for Students and More
Today at SIGGRAPH, Allegorithmic made a couple announcements regarding their Substance texturing product lines. We featured Substance Painter in our GameDev Toolbox series if you want more details....
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.3.6p1
Immediately following the release of Unity 5.3.6, we begin the patch cycle all over again with the release of Patch 5.3.6P1. One again this patch is primarily a bug fix release, it also saw the...
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Marmalade Platform 8.5 Release Adds Updated 2D Editor
Marmalade is a cross platform C++ based game engine that just release version 8.5. The biggest feature of this new release has got to be heavily updated 2D editor, Marmalade 2D kit. Other features...
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Unity 5.4 Released
Unity 5.4 is finally here. A major feature of this release is improved graphics with better multithreaded rendering, GPU instancing, texture arrays, computer shaders and more. VR has been improved...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–July 28th/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending July 28th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleAllegro 5.2.1 Released
Allegro is a C/C++ game library with a found place in my memory. It was one of the very first, freely available open source 2D C/C++ frameworks and it continues to be developed to this very day. In...
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MaxPlay Game Engine Closed Beta Begins
Back in October of 2015 the MaxPlay game engine was announced, but very little details were made available. It’s a well funded, asset driven, cloud powered collaborative game engine and... that’s...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.13 Preview Release
Epic have just released a preview release of the upcoming 4.13 release of Unreal Engine. Of course this is not a production release, so expect some warts and troubles. As always, this release is...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.2 Released
Cocos Creator is a JavaScript powered game engine and editor, built over top of the Cocos2d-x framework. I did a hands on video of Cocos Creator shortly after it was released if you want to learn...
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