SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BY O'REILLY
Found yourself with a lot of free time on your hands lately? Yeah, you’re not alone. Why not spend the time improving your programming ability, which is exactly what you can do with the Software...
View ArticleCryEngine Getting Mobile Support
Announced at Google’s virtual GDC 2020 event, CryEngine will be receiving Android support in beta form this summer. However if you check out the beta signup page, you will notice another key mobile OS...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Project Nature Giveaway
Epic Games have just announced a massive giveaway of asset packs from Project Nature. This is a collection of trees, bushes, grasses and controlling blueprints for creating nature scenes in your...
View ArticleAffinity Products Half Price And Free For 3 Months
Serif, the makers of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are currently offering all of their products at a 50% discount. Additionally they are now offering a completely functional 3 month demo...
View ArticleHumble Music Producer Bundle
Humble have just released a bundle targeted as musicians. The Humble Music Producer Bundle is a collection of sound banks and VSTs. As with all Humble Bundles it is organized into tiers:1$...
View ArticleNVIDIA Release RTXGI and DLSS 2.0 SDKs
In addition to the recently released NVIDIA Texture Tool, NVIDIA have released a pair of SDKs of interest to game developers. The first is RTXGI, a global illumination solution for DXR compatible...
View ArticleBuildbox 3.2 Beta
Buildbox, the recently made free no-code game engine, just released Buildbox 3.2 beta. This beta takes a huge step forward in 3D usefulness with the abity to import and use animated FBX 3D models....
View ArticleZBrush 2020.1 Released
Pixologic have released version 2020.1 of their long running sculpting application ZBrush. Along side the ZBrush release they now have a fully functioning 30 day trial available for download...
View ArticlePixel Vision 8 Free During COVID-19 Crisis
Today on Twitter, Pixel Vision 8 - a highly configurable and fully featured virtual console, announced that it would be free, including the pro tools during the current health crisis.From the Pixel...
View ArticleMANU Video Game Maker
Manu Video Game Maker is a new game engine that was just made available in alpha form on https://manu.co/. The engine is 3D game engine that is currently optimized towards platformer games (this will...
View ArticleLaigter Wins an Epic MegaGrant
At GDC 2019 Epic Games announced their $100M Epic MegaGrant program supporting among other things, open source efforts in the world of game development. Prior winners have included Blender, Godot and...
View ArticleAsset Forge 2.0
Today we are going hands-on with Asset Forge 2.0 by Kenny.nl. Asset Forge is an extremely easy to use 3D modeling application where you can quickly create models using building blocks.Details of Asset...
View ArticleRaylib 3.0 Released
Raylib 3.0 was released today. Raylib is an open source, cross platform C based framework of tools and libraries for making games. Components of raylib can be used on their own, however you can also...
View ArticleEffekseer 1.5
EDIT – It seems we have pushed the download server capacity. If you want to download Effekseer, use this mirror instead.Effekseer is an open source particle effect creation tool we covered previously...
View ArticleThe Future of the Defold Game Engine
The Defold game engine is a free cross platform 2D focused game engine from King, we previously covered here and here as well as a video tutorial here. The Defold team recently released an update on...
View ArticleEclipse Theia 1.0 Released
The Eclipse Foundation have released Theia, an open source desktop and cloud based IDE with it’s targets set firmly on Visual Studio Code. In fact, it’s even compatible with Visual Studio Code...
View ArticlePixaFlux Hands-On
Today we are taking a look at PixaFlux, an interesting free Windows based image creation and manipulation tool capable of creating PBR textures. The entire process is node based and PixaFlux ships...
View ArticleGodot 4 Development Updates
There are a trio of recent development updates over on the Godot news website. Today we take a look at the 3 major updates that have been made recently. Keep in mind that Godot 4.0 is heavily under...
View ArticleUnreal April 2020 Marketplace Giveaway
Going on the second year now, Epic Games have been giving away several Unreal Engine marketplace assets the first Tuesday of the month and today is no exceptionThis month’s free assets include:Fog...
View ArticleShiro’s Game Technology Stack
Shiro Games, the developers behind such games as Evoland, Northgard and Darksburg, just posted a blog post on the technology they use to develop their game.The primary parts of the development stack...
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