Game Development News, Tutorials and More
There is a new interesting service for artists and game developers, TheBaseMesh.com. The new site contains 250+ base mesh 3D models in FBX and OBJ format all under the CC0 open source license. These can be used as the starting point for a sculpt or in a kitbashed 3D project. …
Bandai Namco Research have just released a gigantic free repository of motion capture data in BVH format. Additionally they have released a free and open source Blender plugin for visualizing motion capture data. Details of the motion capture library release: There is a long-standing interest in making diverse stylized motions …
Just one month after the beta release, the popular open source vector graphics based application Inkscape just released Inkscape 1.2. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, the 1.2 release adds tons of new features and user interface improvements. Highlight features of the 1.2 release include: Inkscape documents can now hold …
O3DE, the open source game engine previously known as Lumberyard, just released their first major release of 2022, O3DE 22.05. One of the major flaws with O3DE in the past was the onboarding experience and I’m happy to say it’s now a great deal easier to get up and running …
At the beginning of the year we covered an impressive real-time Godot rendering example Ella that showcases the graphical capabilities of the Godot game engine running onWindows, Mac and Linux. Today they released a brand new Godot rendering example, Myra, again using photogrammetry, but this one runs on Android. Running …
At the Google developer Conference Google.io, the next release of Flutter, Flutter 3, as well as a new game development oriented toolkit, the Casual Games Toolkit, were released. The Flutter 3 release focuses heavily on bringing Flutter support to more devices with Linux, Windows and Mac now being official supported. …
Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has just released a new free tool Avatar Mixer. This joins the previous Mixer projects such as Ship Mixer and Creature Mixer on Itch.io. These tools allow you to rapidly (or completely randomly), create sprite graphics using a mix and match approach of existing assets. You …
Following on the heels of the Unity 2021 LTS release, Unity have just released Unity 2022.1 Tech Stream release. The tech stream releases add the shiny new features, while the LTS or Long Term Support versions are considered more stable and will be supported for two years after release. The …
Game Texture Viewer is a texture viewing and management application for game development that was just acquired by JangaFX and made available for free. If you are interested in trying out Game Texture Viewer, simply download the trial and activate with the product key: GPG7-33NS-KJ2K-CKGT. Game Texture Viewer is available …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Coding Cookbooks by O’Reilly Press bundle. The bundle consists of a set of cookbook style books for programmers on a variety of technologies and programming languages. The Bundle is organized into the following tiers: 1$ Tier Regular Expressions …
