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  The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending April 3rd, 2016.  I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this weeks embedded below.  This post is a collection of links mentioned in the recap. Tiled 0.16 Released Turn Any XBox One […]

  Microsoft recently acquired Xamarin, the company that makes it possible to port .NET applications to Android and iOS devices.  Ever since that announcement I have been waiting for Microsoft to announce that Xamarin was going to be made free.  That just happened:   “We are pleased to announce that we will be making Xamarin […]

  After weeks of preview release, the final release of Unreal Engine 4.11 is here.  This release brings a large number of new features and improvements including: performance and multithreading improvements realistic hair shading realistic eye shading improve skin shading realistic cloth shading (shown right)  capsule (soft) shadows particle depth of field dithered opacity mask […]

  Twin announcements today from the MS Build conference that will have a direct affect on indie developers.  The first is that UWP (Universal Windows Platform) applications can now be run on Xbox One.  The second, anyone can turn their Xbox One into a devkit (warning… big big big disclaimer attached!).   Partial announcement from […]

  Visual Studio Update 2 has now been released, bringing a number of new features to the popular developer tool, including: New Universal Windows App tools Improved C++ 11/14/17 support Implemented ever C++ Standard Library vote into 11/14/17 standards iOS XCode project import wizard C# IDE usability improvements Extensions auto update support Many Version Control […]

  I just recently took an in-depth look at Cocos Creator, an open source JavaScript powered 2D game engine with full editor.  They just hit the milestone release of Cocos Creator 1.0.   So, what’s in this release? A better coding environment A reliable native development and publishing workflow New UI elements: EditBox and Grid […]

  Defold is a game engine that was recently release by King at GDC 2016.  It’s a cool and capable cross platform Lua powered game engine that you can see in action in this video.  One of the big downsides of the engine (and an upside too) is that your code resides on King’s servers.  […]

  Welcome to the second Blender how to ( here is the first ), a series of quick step by step tutorials showing you how to accomplish a specific task using Blender.  Today we will look at a way of quickly modeling a high rise building.  It assumes you know the basics of using Blender.  […]

  Tiled, the popular open source 2D map editor, just released version 0.16.0.  If you are interested in learning more about Tiled, we have a complete tutorial series here on GameFromScratch. The major new features of this release are:   Auto Updater and a new installer. On windows machines, the installer is now MSI based.  […]

  Toonz is a 2D animation package which has now been open sourced under the New BSD license as OpenToonz.  Toonz has a long history in 2D animation for inking, painting and digital composition and has been used extensively by Studio Ghibli on such projects as Princess Mononoke and others.  Toonz dates back to the […]