Humble Software Sale
There is a sale on Humble containing several applications of interest to game developers. The sale started today, June 24th and runs for 7 days. The following is a list of applications most...
View ArticleSteam 2019 Summer Sale For Game Developers
Once again, Steam’s annual summer sale is upon us, and of course loads of software of interest for game developers are on offer. This guide highlights some of the items on sale. Many of these...
View ArticleUnity Launch Unity Learn Premium
Back in April Unity launched Unity Learn, a completely free online learning portal for learning various aspects of using the Unity game engine. Today they have announced Unity Premium, a paid...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Free Content For July
Every month Epic Games make several assets on their asset store free for that month and July is no exception. You have to “buy” the content during the month of July, at which point it is yours...
View ArticleGodot 4.0/Vulkan Renderer Update
Over on the Godot website and update on the status of the Vulkan renderer that is the marquee feature of Godot 4.0. Vulkan is the Khronos Group’s new low level rendering alternative to OpenGL, that...
View ArticleUnity Removing Enlighten Support
In a Unity blog post today, Unity announced that Enlighten support was being removed from the Unity game engine. Enlighten is the lightmapping and global illumination solution used in Unity since...
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Did Unity Lie About Enlighten’s Removal?
Yesterday we reported the news that Unity was removing Enlighten from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little...
View ArticleGameMaker 2.2.3 Released
YoyoGames have just released GameMaker 2.2.3. If you have the Mobile version of GMS, you can now target the tvOS platform. The release also contains a number of new features including DND (drag and...
View ArticleQuadplay Console Released Free And Open Sourced
Quadplay, a fantasy console by CasualEffects, was just released for free, open sourced under the LGPL3 license. Fantasy consoles are virtual consoles, often with specifications similar to classic...
View ArticleDe-Lighter Free Texturing Tool By Agisoft
Today we are taking a look at a free, cross-platform (Mac, Windows & Linux) texturing tool from Agisoft called De-Lighter. The purpose is all in the name, it’s for removing the effects of lighting...
View ArticleHumble Unity Game Development Bundle–Featuring GameDev.Tv
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically Unity game developers. This is the Humble Unity Game Development Bundle, and it consists of a collection of Udemy courses by...
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Blender 2.80 Release Candidate
Blender have just released the first, and hopefully only, release candidate for Blender 2.80. Assuming no major show stopping bugs are found in the release candidate, Blender 2.80 final release should...
View ArticleC# Support On Android Coming To Godot 3.2
Although Godot gained C# support with the release of Godot 3.0, it was missing support for key platforms, specifically mobile and browsers. News from the Godot website indicates that Godot will...
View ArticleEpic Games Give Blender Foundation 1.2M
As part of the Unreal Megagrant Program launched to:…support game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers doing amazing things...
View ArticleUnity Release Three New Gamekits
In addition to their already released 2D Gamekit (and the more advanced 3D Gamekit), Unity have released three new Gamekits to their Unity Learn portal. The new gamekits include:FPS GamekitRPG...
View ArticleMachinations–Game Design Tool
Machinations.io is a fairly rare breed, a tool dedicated to game design. Currently in a free beta, Machinations is a browser based tool for designing and simulating mechanics for gameplay.Descriptions...
View ArticlelibGDX 1.9.10 Released
The cross platform open source Java based game framework libGDX just released version 1.9.10. If you are interested in learning libGDX we have a comprehensive tutorial series available here and a...
View ArticleUbisoft Joins Blender Foundation
Ubisoft, or more specifically Ubisoft Animation Studio, has just joined the Blender Foundation as a gold sponsor. The Blender Foundation Development Fund is a way for individuals and corporations to...
View ArticleAutodesk Join Khronos Group
Today, the Khronos group announced that Autodesk has joined the consortium, specifically the 3D Formats Working Group and the 3D Commerce Exploratory Group. The Khronos Group is the regulatory body...
View ArticleAppGameKIt Studio Released
AppGameKit Studio, the successor to the AppGameKit game framework was released today. Available now on Steam and coming soon to the Game Creators website, Studio builds on top of the API provided in...
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