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Last month, the no-code required 3D game engine BuildBox made some frankly insane pricing announcements. Backlash from customers and competitors was swift and brutal. Today, BuildBox CEO Jonathan Zweig announced their response to the backlash including much more… sane pricing terms. Details from the announcement: You spoke, we listened, and …
There is a new Bundle of interest to game developers on Humble, the Learn Coding to Build Games 2021 Humble Bundle. This bundle is a collection of courses from Zenva covering a broad swath of game development topics including Godot, Unreal and Unity. As with all Humble Bundles this one …
Game publisher Activision have just released an open source project USD Shell Extension. The project is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license and enables Windows users to interact with USD files, a increasingly industry standard interchange format created by Pixar. Details of the Activision USD Shell …
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Packages have become more and more essential to Unity game development with each new release. OpenUPM is an open source package repository and command line interface that makes it quick and easy to add packages directly to your Unity project. One obvious question you may have is… Why not just …
Godot web publishing service gotm.io, previously covered on GFS here are moving into publishing with an innovative offer for Godot engine developers. In addition to publishing Godot games to their online portal, you can now apply to be published to the Nintendo Switch with gotm.io taking care of the porting, …
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We recently published our Easiest Game Engines guide which included among other engines the Construct 3 game engine. We did a review of Construct 3 all the way back in 2017 which is getting rather dated. Therefore we have decided to do a quick hands-on revisit of the Construct 3 …
The final release of Blender before Blender 3.0, Blender 2.93 LTS has just been released. The Blender 2.93 LTS release is a Long Term Support release that will continue to receive patches for the next two years and is the ideal version if you are just starting out on a …
Stack Overflow is one of the most valuable repositories of technical knowledge on the web today and now we know the exact value of that knowledge, $1.8B! Stack Overflow was just acquired by Prosus, a large technology investor that already owns such brands as Udemy, CodeAcademy and AutoTrader. Details of …
SpookyGhost is a cross platform procedural animation tool made using the nCine 2D C++ game engine and the ImGui UI framework. SpookyGhost was recently released as free and open source under the MIT source license with the source hosted on GitHub. SpookyGhost enables you to easily create 2D animations using …
Hot on the heels of the preview release of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games have also released several more assets in the Unreal Engine June marketplace giveaway. This month 5 new assets have been added, and they are yours free forever if purchased before the first Tuesday of July 2021. …
