LÖVE 0.10 Released
LÖVE, the popular Lua based open source game engine, just released version 0.10. This is excellent news for me as I can now use the newest release in my upcoming complete beginners series. So, what’s...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.11 Preview Available
Unreal have just released a preview version of Unreal Engine 4.11 today. The following is a list of items updated within this release:Rendering Updates:New physically based shading model for...
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Leadwerks release Leadwerks Game Engine 4 Preview on Steam
There is a preview of the upcoming Leadwerks Game Engine 4 available on Steam today.From the announcement:We completely rethought how large-scale scene management should work to bring you a...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.3.1p1
Unity just released the first patch for Unity 5.3.From the release notes:Improvements(706098) - Compute: Improved compute shader import times, particularly on Windows (since 5.1 we were always...
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ShiVa Engine V2 Beta 4 Released
ShiVa, a 3D WYSIWYG game engine, just released ShiVa 2.0 Beta 4. From the release:Beta 4 featuresWhen we changed the rendering pipeline with Beta 3, we intended to move ShiVa into a better, more...
View ArticleUltraviolet C# Game Framework 1.3 Released
Care of /r/gamedev, Ultraviolet released version 1.3. In their own words, Ultraviolet is:Ultraviolet is a cross-platform, .NET game development framework written in C# and released under the MIT...
View ArticleTorque 2D 3.2 Released
GarageGames have just released Torque2D version 3.2. Torque2D is 2D game engine built over the Torque 3D engine, which is now open source and MIT licensed. From the release:While you were singing...
View ArticleSigns of Life over at Ogre3D
When I set up the news monitoring on GameFromScratch.com I noticed that Ogre3D hadn’t had an update since June and was somewhat concerned that the project was dying off. Thankfully today there were...
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Massive Bundle of GameDev Assets and Tools
A reader wrote in to share this bundle currently running on BundleStars, and I am glad they did. Somewhat similar to a humble indie bundle from a few months back but containing a great deal more art...
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PlayCanvas Add Spine Support Via Free Plugin
PlayCanvas, a popular 3D HTML5 game engine have added support for Spine the 2D bone based animation software from Esoteric Software. You can get the plugin from Github, details from the...
View ArticleLibGDX 1.8 Released
LibGDX, the cross platform open source Java based gaming library, just released version 1.8 today and unlike many recent releases, there is a ton in this release. The biggest aspect of this release...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.1p2
Another Unity 5.3 patch was released today. From the release notes:Fixes(750357) - iOS: Added font containing Lao characters to the fallback list. (none) - iOS: Don't enable bitcode by default for...
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Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Start Today
The event many people have been waiting for… the ability to order an Oculus Rift of your own has now arrive. You can now pre-order an Oculus Rift today by clicking here. So, the news everyone is...
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The SuperPowers Game Engine is now Open Source
The Superpowers HTML5 game engine is now open source and available on Github. In the developers own words, Superpowers is: Superpowers is a downloadable HTML5 app. You can use it solo like a regular...
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Tiled Level Editor 0.15.0 Released
Tiled, the popular open source level editor, just released version 0.15.0. From the release notes:Those who remember the Tiled 0.14 release announcement may remember that I wanted the next release to...
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QICI Engine 1.05 HTML5 Game Engine Released
Special thanks to @Dillybob on Twitter for bringing this engine to my attention. QICI Engine is a HTML5 game engine and toolset layered over top of Pixi and Phaser, a library I am a huge fan of. The...
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PaymentWall Release An SDK for Unity For Handling Payments
Today Paymentwall released an SDK for the popular game engine Unity that enables developers to accept payments directly within their application. From the press release:“We are very excited to...
View ArticleHTC VIVE Pre-Orders To Start February 29th
… however the ultimate question of price remains unanswered. In an interview on the Guardian, HTC CEO Cher Wang announced the February 29th pre-order date, with wider commercials sales beginning in...
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Corona Labs Release Corona Editor 1.6
Corona Labs, the makers of the popular Lua based mobile game engine, just release version 1.6 of Corona Editor. Corona Editor is a light weight IDE built as a plugin for Sublime Text that enables...
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JetBrains Reveal Project Rider–An IDE for C#
To be honest, I am shocked it took this long. JetBrains have made an excellent Java IDE for ages. Then they released IDEs for just about every single language out there, as well as the C#...
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