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The Esoterica game engine isn’t for everyone… it says it right there in the name: It is a C++ based based free and open source game engine by Steam employee Bobby Anguelov with a renderer by Kirill Bazhenov, both game developers with several shipped titles under their belts. The intended […]
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XNA is still one of the most popular indie game development frameworks years after being abandoned by Microsoft. The popular C# gamedev project has been kept alive by the MonoGame and FNA frameworks, which are still being used to create popular indie games. Now there is a new XNA based
A very long time ago we first discovered the Beef Programming language (and recently revisited) an excellent new game programming focus programming language – a hybrid of C# and C++ created by a veteran game developer. There are several 2D libraries, bindings and frameworks for Beef, but very few in
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The Doriax Game engine is a shockingly robust 2D/3D game engine available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The entire project is open source under the MIT license. The project was previously known as the Supernova engine. Why Choose the Doriax Engine? Key Engine Features: Key Links Doriax Engine Homepage Doriax
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It’s time for the August Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from July 28th – August 11th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets as well as one asset the works in Unity.
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GodotHub is a free and open source, cross platform (with binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux) hub or launcher for the Godot game engine which is already feature rich and extremely polished. Using the (completely optional!) GodotHub you can download and manage Godot installs, create and manage Godot projects and
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Real-time Global Illumination, a more accurate lighting model that captures secondary bounces of surfaces instead of just the direct effect of lights in the scene, is available in Unreal Engine in the form of Lumen and in the Godot game engine in the form of SDFGI. Unity however currently does
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In September of 2024 at the Unite developer conference, Unity announced that Unity Next (Unity 7 basically) was in development. It was going to be a clean break from existing Unity, standardized around a single pipeline and powered by CoreCLR. Then at Unite the following year Unity 7 was killed
At their developer conference Unity Unite/2026 Seoul Unity just released a brand new and extremely powerful new product. Unity CLI, a new command line interface for the entire Unity ecosystem (editor, hub, cloud, analytics, etc). On top of the new CLI they also released the new Unity Pipeline, which you
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The creator of the one of a kind Dust3D 3D modelling application has just released a new free & open source tool for 3D modelling – AutoRemesher. This app for Windows, Mac and Linux enables you to quickly retopologize 3D models, converting them from triangle soup to smooth edge loop
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