Unity May Madness Asset Store Sale
Unity are currently running their annual May Madness sale on their asset store. Over 380 of the most popular assets on the store are currently on sale for 50% off or more. Additionally they are...
View ArticleBabylonJS V4 Released
BabylonJS, an open source browser based game engine, just released a major update in the form of the 4.0 release. In addition to a website makeover and new forums, the 3D game engine gained several...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Academy Preview Launched
Epic Games have just launched a preview of their upcoming Unreal Engine Academy. This is a one stop location for Unreal Engine courses in video format which is completely free, although it requires...
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Microsoft .NET 5 Announced
At the MSBuild 2019 developer conference, Microsoft made a pretty huge announcement about the future of .NET. With the release of .NET 5, there will be one .NET, that is cross platform and open...
View ArticleWrite Like a Writer Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle are running another bundle of interest to game developers… this time, for the writers among us. The Write like a Writer bundle is a collection of e-books about all facets of writing from...
View ArticleSubstance Designer Spring Update
Substance Designer, the PBR material creation software from Allegorithmics (and now Adobe), just received it’s first major update of 2019. The major new feature is the ability to process both values...
View ArticleUsing C# With Unreal Engine
While Unreal Engine doesn’t provide C# support out of the box, it does provide an exceptional plugin system, so it was only a matter of time until C# plugins arrived. Today we are looking at the open...
View ArticlePhaser 3.17.0 Released
The Phaser HTML game framework just released version 3.17.0. Phaser is an excellent open source MIT licensed 2D game framework. If you are interested in getting started with Phaser, we have a...
View ArticleUnity 2019.2 Beta
Unity have just released their latest beta, Unity 2019.2, now available in the Beta Releases tab in the Unity Hub. So shortly after GDC 2019, there aren’t many surprises in this release.Highlights...
View ArticleHumble AI And Deep Learning Book Bundle
Another Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, this one is the Humble Book Bundle: Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning by Packt bundle. This is a collection of e-books (and 3 videos) in...
View ArticleEpic Purchase Twinmotion
Epic Games have acquired Twinmotion, a archviz solution built on top of Epic’s Unreal game engine technology. Even better, Twinmotion is being made available for free Until November of 2019, with the...
View ArticleEpic Games Online Services Delayed
Announced back in December of 2018, Online Services is a collection of free and cross platform game engine agnostic services for multiplayer games, as battle tested in Fortnite. Services such as...
View ArticleThe Future of CryEngine
This year, just before GDC, CryEngine released a stunning video Neon Noir showcasing real-time raytracing in CryEngine without the need for dedicated hardware. Beyond that, they have been relatively...
View ArticleHumble Computer Graphics Book Bundle
In what may be my favourite Humble Bundle by far, the folks over at Humble just launched the Humble Book Bundle: Computer Graphics by CRC Press. This is a collection of e-books on a huge number of...
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BuildBox Pricing Changes
BuildBox is a cross platform 2D (and soon 3D) game engine heavily targeted toward the “no programming easy to use” segment. With the 3.0 release coming Thursday, May 22 2019, there are also price...
View ArticleGitHub Sponsors–Open Source Funding
Today GitHub just announced GitHub Sponsors, a new funding model that just may change the way a lot of open source projects get funded. Instead of relying on third party services such as Patreon to...
View ArticleGoogle and Binomial Open Source Basis Universal Texture Format
One common problem with game development is compression, it’s a classic trade-off. Do you save disk space at the cost of either performance or VRAM usage or do you favor performance at the cost of...
View ArticleConstruct 3 Adding JavaScript Support
Scirra announced today that they will be adding JavaScript language support to their currently codeless cross platform game engine, Construct 3. We did a hands-on video on Construct 3 shortly after it...
View ArticleKrita 4.2 Released
Krita is an open source painting application available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. It has improved massively over the last two years and continued that process today with the release of Krita 4.2....
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GDevelop Beta 70 Released
GDevelop, the open source beginner friendly 2D game engine, just released beta 70. We recently mentioned GDevelop in our Codeless Game Engines article and have previously covered it in depth in this...
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