Unity Release Adam Ep2 & 3 Assets For Free
A couple years back Unity released a video ADAM that showcased the rendering capabilities of the Unity game engine. Since then a company called Oat Studios released a sequel and today they released...
View ArticleAppGameKit v2018.4.12 Released
AppGameKit v2018.4.12 was just released on Steam. The update adds a load of new functionality to the game engine the star of which is AR support for both ARCore and ARKit devices. Mobile devices...
View ArticlePhaser 3.4.0 Released
Phaser 3.4.0 was just released today. The popular HTML5 game framework has been improving rapidly since the 3.x branch was released earlier this year. This release includes beta support for the...
View ArticleBlender Game Engine Removed From Blender 2.8
If you are a Blender Game Engine (BGE) fan, I have some bad news for you. Earlier today BGE was removed from the Blender 2.8 branch of source code. This means in the next version of Blender and...
View ArticleGameGuru Update Adds New PBR Based Graphics Engine
GameGuru, perhaps the most beginner focused 3D game engine available, just received a pretty sizeable update. Hands down the biggest new feature of the release is the new Direct X 11 powered, PBR...
View ArticleDefold 1.2.126 Released
A new version of the Defold game engine was released, version 1.2.126. The nicest new feature of this release is the ability to do side by side editing in the Defold Editor. The Defold Engine is a 2D...
View ArticlePlayCanvas HTML5 3D Game Engine Turns 1.0
The HTML5 base 3D game engine PlayCanvas has been covered several times here on GameFromScratch, both in the Closer Look series, as well as a more recent 3D game tutorial. It has been under...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.9.1 Released
The JavaScript 2D game framework, Cocos Creator, just received a minor update bringing it to version 1.9.1. The majority of new functionality in this update are focused on WebChat and QQPlay support,...
View ArticleGodot Gets CSG Supports
The development branch of the Godot game engine just received CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry) support. Keep in mind it was just added and you need to build from source, so expect some bugs and...
View ArticleShaderForge For Unity now Free And Open Source
ShaderForge, on of the more popular extensions on the Unity Asset store, was just released completely free and open source today by it’s developer. The developer made the following tweet this...
View ArticleOGRE 1.11 Released
OGRE3D just released version 1.11. OGRE (Object Oriented Rendering Engine) is an open source rendering framework written in C++. The 1.11 release codenamed “Rhagorthua” was heavily focused on...
View ArticleUnity 2018.1 Released
Unity just released version 2018.1 and it’s probably the most significant release in a very long time. The biggest features of this release include:new C# programable graphics pipelineshigh definition...
View ArticleAppGameKit Learns French, Italian, Spanish and German
The beginner friendly game engine AppGameKit just received a new update. For the most part it’s a relatively small update with only minor new features as well as some fixes and tweaks. The biggest...
View ArticleCryEngine 5.5 Preview 2 Released
CryEngine 5.5 preview 2 was just released. Keep in mind this is a preview release so expect some bugs and glitches. In fact there’s a list of known issues:Anim: Save/load breaks default character...
View ArticleImpactJs Is Now Open Source
Impactjs is a 2D HTML5 game engine with a built in level editor called Weltmeister. Previously it was commercial software with a $99 price tag. Earlier today the author made the following tweet:The...
View ArticleGodot 3 Gains 2D Skeletal Deformation Support
Godot 3 is gaining new functionality at a staggering rate. Just last week I wrote about the addition of CSG Support. Yesterday the development branch of Godot 3 gained 2D Skeletal Deformation,...
View ArticleAutodesk SketchBook Now Free
Autodesk Sketchbook, one of my favorite sketching applications, has just been made free. That’s actually free, not freemium or subscription based, just download it and start drawing. The one caveat...
View ArticleUnity 2018.2 Beta Released
Hot on the heels of the Unity 2018.1 release, the next beta Unity 2018.2 has just been made available. There are several new features in this release, a lot building on the new functionality in 2018.1...
View ArticleVisual Studio IntelliCode Launched
Today at the BUILD developer conference, Microsoft announced the preview release of IntelliCode, a new AI backed version of Intellisense. IntelliCode makes Intellisense smarter by giving you...
View ArticlenPower Release Version 15 of Power Plugins for 3ds Max 2019
nPower software announced the release of the 15th version of their plugin pack for recently released 3ds Max 2019. The plugin pack consists of five different plugins, Power NURBS, Power Translator,...
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