Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Raylib, an open source cross platform C/C++ framework for making games just received an Epic MegaGrant, joining other open source projects such as Godot, Blender, Krita and more. The MegaGrant program provides no strings attached funding to projects in the film, game and open source world to help support development …
Manticore Games, the creators of the Unreal Engine powered Core game creation platform (previously featured here and here) just announced a new D&D themed contest with a $20K USD in prizes.
News broke in June 2020 that Epic Games were looking for funding that would value the company at $17B. The first piece of that funding fell into place in July when it was announced that Sony would make a $250M investment in Epic. Today the rest of the dominoes fell into place with the announcement of a total of $17.8B in funding
Humble are running a new bundle of interest to game developers, the Create Comics and Manga Bundle by Quarto, a collection of books on drawing, be it manga, anime or traditional styles.
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time for another Unreal Engine asset marketplace giveaway. This month we have 5 temporarily free (until the first Tuesday of September) assets, as well as one new asset for the permanently free collection.
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Humble Book Bundle: Game Design and Animation by Pack. This title is a bit misleading as the bundle actually covers a broad swatch of game development topics including books on the Godot, Unity and Unreal game engines, books on Blender, GLSL shaders and yes of course, books on animation and game design.
Earlier this year Unigine started Unigine Community a much more indie friendly version of their long running game engine. Now several months later we have Unigine 2.12, but don’t let the small increase in version deter you, this release contains tons of new features including new particle tools, curve editor, animation tools, …
Microsoft has just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Sponsor, joining the likes of Epic Games, Ubisoft, AMD, and NVIDIA. Microsoft is currently using Blender in some in-house projects and will be supporting the Blender Development Fund to the tune of 30K Euro per year. Details of the deal from the Blender website: Microsoft makes …
Cascadeur is a unique physics based animation system for Linux and Windows (Mac coming soon) that just released into Open Beta. Details of the first Cascadeur beta release: New core architectureThe progress from the CBT to the OBT version may appear subtle on the outside, but on the inside the entire core …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Humble Book Bundle: Programming Languages by O’Reilly bundle. This is a collection of ebooks covering a variety of programming languages. This bundle includes the following tiers:1$ Tier97 Things Every Java Programmer Should KnowThink JuliaProgramming ScalaIntroducing GoLearning Perl8$ TierLearning SQLProgramming PHPR CookbookHead First KotlinUsing […]
