Project Rider EAP Now Open To The Public
Way back in January JetBrains announced the private EAP (Early Access Program) for Project Rider. Project Rider is a new cross platform C# IDE from the company that brought us such tools as IntelliJ...
View ArticleArticy:Draft Betas for Unity Integration And Macro Dev Kit
Nevigo have just announced a pair of beta programs for articy:draft, the first for Unity integration, the second for their Macro Dev Kit. articy:draft is a great program for game designers to design...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.4.3p1
Unity have released another game engine patch, this one version 5.4.1p1. In addition to an update to Oculus SDK 1.10 this patch contains an above average number of fixes and improvements...
View ArticleXenko Game Engine 1.9Beta Released
Xenko Game Engine, previously known as Paradox 3D, just released version 1.9 and frankly it’s a rather impressive update. We reviewed the Xenko game engine in the Closer Look series, including a...
View Articleraylib 1.6 released
Earlier this year I checked out a C game framework called raylib that I proclaimed perfect for beginners. For a C or C++ library, this is strong praise coming from me as I very rarely recommend C++...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.7p2
Following hot on the release of Unity Patch 5.4.3p1 earlier this week, we just received patch 5.3.7p2. Notice that these are two completely separate branches of Unity, 5.3.x and 5.4.x. Both have...
View Article$15,000 Christmas Giveaway For Unity Developers
Organized by DevDog, a Unity asset publisher, there is a Christmas giveaway of Unity assets and resources, with several Unity asset publishers, and Unity themselves contributing. Simply register via...
View ArticleThis Week In GameDev–Nov 28/2016
The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending November 28th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.3.2 Released
Version 1.3.2 of Cocos Creator was just released. Cocos Creator is a full game engine and editor built over top of the Cocos2d-x game framework. It is cross platform, free and open source. I did a...
View ArticleUnity 5.5 Finally Out Of Beta
After a good period of development time, Unity 5.5 is finally out of beta. Well worth the wait however, Unity 5.5 contains an impressive number of new features. Some of the major features of the 5.5...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.4.3p2
Although perhaps overshadowed by the release of Unity 5.5, Unity have also released a patch for their older version, 5.4.3p2. As always the patch is composed entirely of fixes and improvements,...
View ArticleCrytek Announce Schematyc Language For CryEngine 5.3
CryEngine 5.3 is coming soon and Crytek just announced one of the new major features, a new visual programming language “Schematyc”. From the CryEngine blog:What is Schematyc?At its heart, Schematyc...
View ArticleUnity Acquire Anima2D Releasing For Free In January
Unity have just announced they have acquired Anima2D, a bone based 2D animation system (like Spine, Spriter, Creature, DragonBones, etc.) that works directly inside Unity. After the aquisition...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Powered MechWarrior 5 Announced
Just recently at MechCon 2016, Piranha Games ( MechWarrior Online ) announced they were developing MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries as a single player game. Why is this of interest to GameFromScratch.com...
View ArticleDefold Engine 1.2.94 Released
The mobile focused cross platform Lua powered game engine Defold just released version 1.2.94. The release includes several bug fixes but more importantly contains some rather cool new features. A...
View ArticleAtomic Game Engine Build 1 Released
The Atomic Game Engine just released a new version available for download here. This is the first formal binary release in a long time, but there has been constant work on this engine since I...
View ArticleBabylonJS 2.5 Released
The HTML5 powered Babylon.js 3D game engine just released version 2.5 today. BabylonJS is open source (Apache License) and one of the best available native HTML5 3D game engines available. I...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.5.0p1
Following fast on the release of Unity 5.5, Unity 5.5.0P1 was just released. As always the patch is available for download here. As should be expected after a new major release, there are a number...
View ArticleTypeScript 2.1 Released
Microsoft have just released a new version of TypeScript. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that ultimately compiles down to JavaScript. It adds several features to the JavaScript language,...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.14.1 Hotfix released
Epic have released a hotfix for Unreal Engine, 4.14.1. Composed entirely of fixes, over 50 issues were revolved. The hotfix consists of:Fixed in 4.14.1Fixed! UE-35609 Delay nodes used in a macro...
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