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SpriteLoop is a free 2D animation tool for Windows, Mac and Linux for creating animations from a collection of images, a style known as cut out animations. In many ways it’s a free but limited version of popular animation tools like Spriter and Spine. Features of SpriteLoop include: Key Links […]
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It’s time for the 2nd August Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from August 11th – August 25th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets. Of course you can also expert many assets
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The Godot game engine got two steps closer to the Godot 4.8 release with the releases of Godot 4.8 Dev2 and Dev3. We took an earlier sneak peek at Godot 4.8 when Dev1 was released. Now we take a look at the new features in Godot 4.8 Dev2 and Dev3.
Godot 4.8 Dev2 and Dev3 Releases Read More
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
Sedulous Engine Powered by Beef Read More
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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