2D Game Art with Krita Tutorial Kickstarter Campaign
I don’t often announce Kickstarter campaigns unless they are specifically about the creation of game development tools but for this one I am making an exception as this project looks high quality, is...
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RoboVM and JetBrains Announce Kotlin Contest
This one has to be about the most ironic timing of a contest ever, as just last night I started working with Kotlin and IntelliJ (expect a post later today)… anyways, on to the competition. The...
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Phaser Black Friday 50% Off Sales
Phaser, the popular open source HTML5 game engine, are having a 50% off Black Friday sale (*cough* It’s Wednesday btw… *cough*) with all of their items half price. I'm a huge fan of Phaser, in fact...
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YoYoGames Autumn Sale -- GameMaker Half Price
YoYo Games just announced their Black Friday Autumn sale, with GameMaker and most exporter plugins available at half price. From the announcement:The leaves are falling and so our prices as we reveal...
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Construct 2 Release r218
Construct2, the popular visual HTML5 game engine, just released version R218 beta. From the release notes:New this release: support for NW.js 0.13.0-alpha6 with a few bug fixes, experimental support...
View ArticleKrita 2.9 Animation Edition Beta Released
A new beta release of the Krita drawing package; mostly an under the hood revision to add animation support on the road to Krita 3 release. From the release post:Today we are happy to announce the...
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New Version of Goo Create and New Forums Launched
Quickly after the open sourcing of Goo engine, Goo have announced a new version of their Goo Create tool. They also launched a new developer forum.From the announcement:New Features/ImprovementsUI...
View ArticleBlack Friday for Game Developers
Each year Black Friday has more and more game development deals. Each year it also gets earlier and earlier… Black Thursday, Black Wednesday, you name it and of course they are trying to stretch it...
View ArticleQuixel Suite 2 Released
Quixel just released version 2 of their suite of products. Quixel Suite is composed of:NDO PainterDDO Painter3DO Baker You can currently purchase the entire suite for $99 on an indie license or $409...
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Visual Studio 2015 Service Pack 1 Released
The Visual Studio team at Microsoft just released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2015. The editor now supports several more languages such as Go, Swift and Ruby, command line REPL for C#, new NuGet...
View ArticleTypeScript 1.7 Released
Along side the release of Visual Studio 2015 SP1, Microsoft shipped a new version of the TypeScript programming language. I personally am a huge fan of TypeScript, but I am not entirely certain I am...
View ArticleCorona Labs Acquired by Perk
Corona Labs, makers of the popular Lua based game engine CoronaSDK have been acquired by Perk a mobile rewards provider.From the Corona blog:Today, I’m really happy to announce that Corona and the team...
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Paradox Game Engine Update and Name Change to Xenko
Paradox the C# based cross platform game engine we featured a few months back, as just announced a major version release and a name change to Xenko. First about the update:New Features With This...
View ArticleBlend4Web Release Version 15.11
Blender4Web, a 3D engine that enables you to create web content directly in Blender, just released version 15.11. From the release notes:New FeaturesInitial support of WebGL 2.0 technology. New API...
View ArticleAutodesk Release 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2
Autodesk just announced the release of Extension 2 for 3ds Max 2016. Extensions are interim updates between major releases. Extensions 2 adds the follow functionality:With fundamental improvements...
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Xamarin Release UrhoSharp a .NET Port of the Urho3D Engine
Today on the Xamarin blog, they announced the release of Urhosharp. You may recall I covered Urho3D a while back in the Closer Look at Series. From the announcement:Building 3D experiences and games...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dev Release BabylonJS Generator
BabylonJS is a popular 3D game engine for WebGL that I covered back in the spring. Today Sébastien Pertus at Microsoft announced the release of a project generator available on npm: Today I want to...
View ArticleIs Sketch based Animation The Next Big Thing?
Having never used or even heard of sketch based animation you can’t help but feel like a “someone changes something in the matrix” moment, when not one but two stories cross your desk in the same...
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Apple Open Source the Swift Programming Language
Rarely do I weigh in on programming languages, I don’t think that C++ is better than Java, or vice versa. Each fills a niche, even the much maligned Visual Basic was a very good programming language...
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SideFx Software Release Houdini Engine for Unreal
SideFx software just announced the release of Houdini Engine for Unreal. Houdini is a long standing procedurally based 3D modeling, animating and rendering application which was until recently a...
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