Godot SDFGI
Godot just got a new feature for the upcoming Godot 4.0 release, SDFGI, or Signed Distance Field Global Illumination. It is described accordingly on the Godot website:SDFGI stands for Signed Distance...
View ArticleSubstance Alchemist Hands-On
Allegorithmic (now Adobe) are well known for their excellent Substance Designer and Painter texturing tools have recently released a major update for Alchemist, their Quixel Mixer competitor. The...
View ArticleFlax Engine 0.7 Released
Flax Engine, an in development closed beta game engine, we first covered in August of 2018, just announced the release of version 0.7 beta. This is one of the final closed beta releases as the close...
View ArticleSprytile Now Available For Blender 2.8x
Sprytile is a free tile map editor that runs entirely inside Blender, similar in functionality to the recently covered Crocotile 3D. Over the weekend, Sprytile for the most current Blender 2.8x...
View ArticleGodot With C++
A common question I receive is, can I use C++ with the Godot game engine. If you are looking to do live game scripting like in Unreal Engine, the short answer is no, you cannot do that with Godot....
View ArticleUnreal Engine July 2020 Giveaway
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it’s time for another Unreal Engine giveaway. Every month they give away several assets from the Unreal Engine marketplace, so long as you...
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Godot And 3rd Party Vendors Poll
Juan Linietsky, founder and lead developer of the Godot open source game engine, is looking for user feedback on the future of third party support in the Godot ecosystem.The Tweet:The linked document...
View ArticleCore Platform Launch Pilot Monetization Program
Core, a game development platform by Manticore Games (previous hands-on here), have just announced a pilot program enabling game developers to get paid for their game creations. Core is built on top...
View ArticleGodot Donation Changes
The Godot game engine announced some changes to their donation strategies going forward, as well as changes to their Patreon tiers and some insight into their future hiring goals to support the...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Launch Live Link iPhone App
Unreal Engine have just launched a new iPhone App called Live Link that enables real-time facial capture for Unreal Engine using an iPhone 10x or newer. The requirements are Unreal Engine 4.25 or...
View ArticleFNA–Now with Vulkan Support
FNA is an open source project making it easy to port and maintain XNA based games to several different platforms. FNA has been used to port a huge number of indie games including the likes of Celeste,...
View ArticleSony Make 250M Investment in Epic Games
Epic Games, creators of the popular Fortnite series, as well as Unreal Engine, have just announced they have received a $250M investment from Sony, makers of the PlayStation consoles. It was announced...
View ArticleDust3D Modeling Application
Dust3D is an open source 3D modeling application we first looked at back in April of 2018. Since that time Dust has improved a great deal, including winning a Epic MegaGrant award. Dust3D is...
View ArticleFamiStudio–NES Style Music Editor
Today we are checking out FamiStudio, a lighter weight alternative to programs like FamiTracker, that make it easy to create 8bit style musical scores. Features of FamiStudio include:Modern DAW-style...
View ArticleUnity Power Tools Bundle
Over on the Unity Asset Store, Unity are running the Power Tools bundle, a collection of addons for the Unity game engine providing functionality from dialog support, to advanced terrain tools and even...
View ArticleGame Creator Humble Bundle
The Game Creator Humble Bundle is currently running over at Humble. The bundle contains dozens of game assets including sprites, 2.5D art, battler images and music assets for use in your game, as well...
View ArticleBlender Tools For Unreal Engine Released
Epic Games have just released a new set of tools aimed at making the lives of Blender users easier when working with Unreal Engine. The tools consist of two projects, Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify....
View ArticlePixelmash 2020 Hands-On
Included in the currently running Humble Game Creator Bundle, today we go hands-on with Pixelmash, a pixel art graphics application for Windows and Mac OS. Pixelmash is described as:A New, Easier Way...
View ArticleTilekit
Tiletkit is a new tile based map editor available for Windows and Linux. The key feature of Tilekit is a rules based pattern driven map editing, define your tiles and rules and the map editor takes...
View ArticleLumberyard 1.25 Released
After the incredibly frustrating release of Lumberyard 1.24 it’s safe to say I had low expectations of Lumberyard 1.25. Thankfully this release has proven me wrong.Key features of the Lumberyard 1.25...
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