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RPG Paper Maker is a JRPG-style role playing game engine we first looked at roughly 2 years ago. Due to the recent release of version 2.0 we are going to revisit it. The engine is completely free for non-commercial use, the source code is available (but not open source) and …
Last June Unity announced they would be laying off 4% of their workforce, or slightly over 200 people. A few days back Unity CEO John Riccitiello announced that Unity would be laying off an additional 284 employees. Unlike the earlier layoffs though, these ones are mostly from overlapping positions, most …
There is a new Unity Mega Bundle celebrating the Lunar New Year, where you can save up to 95% off on several Unity assets. Of the 20 assets, 17 appear to have not appeared in a recent Humble or Unity Mega Bundle. As with all Mega Bundles, this one is …
Thanks to the new GDExtension functionality in Godot 4, it should be easier to more tightly integrate external programming languages, which is exactly what HxGodot does with the Haxe programming language. There are several Haxe powered game engines available and this extension brings support to one more. There are a …
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Unity 3D Game Development Super Bundle by Packt. This bundle is a collection of ebooks and video courses (with supporting project files) for both the Unity game engine and on using Blender for game development. As always it …
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Long running open source Windows-based graphical application Paint.NET just released version 5. The Paint.NET 5 release contains several new features, but the biggest among them is massively increased GPU support, pressure sensitive brushes and a new plugin system (which also takes advantage of the new GPU functionality). New features of …
Deulyst, an online CCG or collectable card game first published in 2016, has just been open sourced. This release isn’t just the source code, but everything, the server component, the art assets, everything. The release is under the liberal Creative Commons license enabling you to do almost anything you want …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Complete Unity Game Development Bundle is a collection of video courses from Zenva. The courses are mostly aimed at beginners and cover a wide variety of topics and game genres developed with the Unity game engine. As with …
Yesterday the Blender foundation released an article outlining the development priorities of Blender in 2023. These are all projects that are either finishing or under active development in 2023 and represent the major priorities of the development team. The fact something isn’t mentioned, such as sculpting or uv mapping, does …
The popular open source drawing/paint application Krita has come a long way over the last few years, but using the add-on Shortcut Composer it can be made so much better. Shortcut Composer is a free and open source source extension for Krita written in Python that make several UI improvements …
