THIS WEEK IN GAMEDEV– SEPT 20TH/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending September 20th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video...
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Gideros 2016.8.2 released
Gideros just released version 2016.8.2. Gideros is a cross platform Lua powered game engine that is now open source and free to use. The 2016.8.2 release brings a number of new features and fixes....
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inXile To Start Selling Game(Wasteland 2) Models on TurboSquid
Well, this move is interesting... inXile Entertainment, formed from the ashes of Black Isle Studios, are the developers responsible for Bards Tale, Wastelands 2 and Torment which is currently in...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.2.2 Released
Cocos Creator just released version 1.2.2. Cocos Creator is a HTML5 based game engine and editor built over top of the Cocos2d-x game engine. I did a hands on video with Cocos Creator available here...
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Daydream VR Support Added to Unity And Unreal Engine
Daydream is Google’s project to bring VR to the Android platform. Two of the biggest game engines, Unity and Unreal, just announced Daydream support in preview forms. First Unity’s announcement:We’re...
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RPG Creator For iOS Released By Publisher Of RPGMaker
From the publisher (but not developer) that create the popular JRPG development kit RPG Maker, RPG Creator has just been released. RPG Creator is a iOS only tool for creating and sharing JRPG style...
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Defold Engine 1.2.89 Released
Today saw a new released of the Lua powered Defold game engine. The primary addition of this release was Spine support was added directly to the GUI. Spine is a 2D IK based animation system I...
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ClickTeam Fusion Humble Bundle
Hot on the heels of the GameMaker Bundle, ClickTeam Fusion is now available as a Humble Game Bundle. Humble game bundles are a charity program with a variety of different rewards based on different...
View ArticleBanshee Engine 0.4 Released
The Banshee Engine is an open source LGPL licensed 2D/3D game engine written in C++. It just saw the release of version 0.4. I took a look at a previous version of the Banshee engine available here...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.4.1p3
Unity have released a new patch, 5.4.1p3. This one is entirely composed of bug fixes, including:ImprovementsIL2CPP: Added an option to link.xml files to ignore missing assemblies.Fixes(830443) - AI:...
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Unity Release Vulkan Renderer Preview
Vulkan is the next generation version of the OpenGL graphics API by the Khronos Group designed to work better with current generation GPU architectures. Part of aligning better with the underlying...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.13.1 Hotfix
Epic have released a new hotfix for Unreal Engine, this one 4.13.1. As the name suggests, 4.13.1 is entirely composed of bug fixes. These fixes include: Fixed! UE-35735 Crash Occurs While Running...
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Autodesk Release MaxToA Arnold Plugin for 3ds Max 2017
Earlier this year Autodesk acquired Solid Angle, the creators of the Arnold renderer. Today they released v0.6 of MaxToA, a 3ds Max to Arnold renderer plugin for 3ds Max 2017. This new plugin more...
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GameGuru 1.132 Released
GameGuru is an easy to use game engine from The Game Creators that ships with a massive amount of content to get you started. With the release of 1.132 that content is about to grow with a new free...
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Blender 2.78 Released
It’s been quite a wait, but Blender 2.78 is finally here and it brings us all kinds of great new features. There are new add-ons, render for VR functionality, viewport performance improvements,...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–Oct 3/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending October 3rd, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded...
View ArticleGoogle Launches VR Headset DayDream View
Back in May Google announced VR support was going to be built into future versions of Android. It was only a matter of time until Google launched a compatible device, and today that device is here....
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.4.1p4
Unity just released a new patch, 5.4.1p4. Composed of the usual slate of fixes and improvements, here they are from the release notes: ImprovementsAsset Database: Added a new API for getting asset...
View ArticleShiva 2.0 Beta 7 Released
Shiva is a Lua powered 2D/3D game engine with a full editing environment. Shiva 2.0 has been in development for some time now and Beta 7 was just released. There are several new features in this...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.3.6p7
Another patch has been released for the popular Unity game engine. This patch, 5.3.6p7 is primarily composed of fixes, including: ImprovementsIL2CPP: Added an option to link.xml files to ignore...
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