Duality Game Engine Releases Version 3.0
The open source Duality game engine just received a 3.0 release. The duality engine, that we featured previously in the Closer Look series is a complete 2D game engine built on top of a C# framework...
View ArticleGame Engine Black Book Doom Released
The book Game Engine Black Book Doom was just released by Fabien Sanglard just in time for the 25th anniversary of the release of Doom. The book, with forwards by John Carmack and Dave Taylor, is an...
View ArticleHumble VEGAS Pro Bundle Now Live
There is a new Humble Bundle that could be of interest to developers looking for audio and video editing software. The center piece of the bundle is certainly MAGIX VEGAS Pro 15, a high end video...
View ArticleEpic Games Announce Free Cross-Platform Online Services
Fresh on the heels of releasing their new online store leverage the technologies they developed creating Fortnite, Epic Games have announced plans for a cross-platform online multiplayer game service,...
View ArticleUnity 2018.3 Released
Following a beta release in September, Unity have just released the full version of Unity 2018.3. The marquee feature of Unity 2018.3 is the new ability to nest prefabs inside other prefabs which will...
View ArticleMakeHuman 1.2.0 Alpha 2 Released
MakeHuman, an open source character creation software that started life as a Blender plugin, recently released 1.2.0 Alpha 2. With Manuel Bastioni Labs recently shutting down, MakeHuman has become the...
View ArticleUnity Best Of 2018 Holiday Sale On Now
Following up on the usual Black Friday sales bonanza, Unity are doing another sale on some of the most popular assets in the Unity Store. One very cool difference to this sale is you only pay for what...
View ArticleLumberyard 1.17 Beta Released
Amazon have just released beta 1.17 of the Lumberyard game engine, a Amazon developed fork of the seminal CryEngine. If you are interested in learning more about Lumberyard be sure to check out our...
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Xenko 3.1 Beta Released
Xenko 3.1 beta has just been released. This is the first major point release since the Xenko project went open source this summer. The primary focus of this beta is reorganizing Xenko to make it...
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Game Development 2018 Year In Review
2018 was an interesting year in game development. In this post/video, we take a quick stroll down memory lane and look at some of the key stories as they occurred throughout the year. Epic Games...
View ArticleNew Unreal Engine Marketplace Content Released
Back in November, Epic Games announced they would be giving away content from the Unreal Engine marketplace. Yesterday they announced the January content that would be made available for free. While...
View ArticleCorona Game Engine Open Sourced
Corona is an open source Lua powered cross platform game engine, first released way back in 2009. Back in 2017 Corona was released for free, after being acquired by AppoDeal earlier in the year....
View ArticleScratch 3.0 Released
MIT have just released version 3 of Scratch. Scratch is a visual programming language and game engine aimed at helping kids learn how to program, I previously featured it in the GameFromScratch Guide...
View ArticleSpine 3.7 Released
Over the weekend, Esoteric Software released version 3.7 of their Spine animation software. Spine enables you to create complex 2D animations using a bone and mesh based workflow, much like working...
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GitHub Free Tier Now Includes Unlimited Private Repositories
Back in June of 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub for an eye watering 7.5 Billion dollars. This transaction took several months to make it through regulatory approval, with Microsoft finally taking...
View ArticlePanda 1.10.0 Released
The Panda game engine is a C++/Python based open source game engine form in collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and Disney, previously used to power MMOs such as Toon Town Online and Pirates of the...
View ArticleGodot 3.1 Beta Released
Godot 3.1 just became one step closer with the first Beta release, after several prior alpha releases. Details of the beta release from the Godot blog:After an alpha phase that took longer than...
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SpatialOS For Unity Shut Down By ToS Change
Earlier today Improbable released the following statement regarding their cloud based networking service SpatialOS:Today we must regretfully inform our community of the following developments.Unity’s...
View ArticleUnity Responds To Improbables Shutdown Post
Earlier today Improbable released a blog post stating that due to ToS/EULA changes, it was no longer compatible with Unity and was being shut down. A number of developers responded to this action,...
View ArticleEpic Games Epic Troll
Well… this has certainly been an interesting day. It started off with Improbable blogging about how their license with Unity had been terminated due to ToS changes and that they would no longer be...
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