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  AMD announced the launch of the GPUOpen initiative.  It is essentially a collection of code, documentation and tools for accessing modern day GPUs.  Although they may not be winning too many battles on the silicon front, AMD’s software initiatives have certainly had an impact, such as Mantle essentially becoming Vulkan, the next version of […]

  I’ve been waiting on this one for a while, Godot 2.0 has finally been released in beta form. Never one for …  lengthy release notes, this release is not exception: After a long, long time in development Godot 2.0 is now in beta! Godot 2.0 Beta features a new interface , and huge amounts […]

  Maya LT, the stripped version of Maya aimed at indie game developers, just got a version of the Bonus Tools, previously available only for the full release of Maya.   From the Autodesk blog: Are you a Maya LT user?  Have you seen or heard of BonusTools and felt a little left out?  well […]

  Phong shading has been somewhat the gold standard as far as game engines go.  The Phong algorithm, named after founder Bui Tuong Phong, is an algorithm for how light interacts with a 3D surface.  With the upcoming Unity 5.4 release however, Unity will be moving from Phong to GGX shading.  For more details on […]

  This one comes care of /r/gamedev and I have to say on first glance I am rather impressed.  This is a C++ based open sourced game engine with a WYSIWYG editor and C# scripting support.  A look at this screenshot from the Github page should get you somewhat excited:   The engine description direct […]

  Allegro, a C++ based game programming library just released version 5.1.13 WIP, so I would assume the WIP tag means you can expect a few more hiccups than normal.  Allegro holds an interesting place in my heart, as it was one of the first DOS based game programming libraries I ever used.  Yes, I […]

  Kode Studio 16.1 was just released, a fork of the Visual Studio Code editor specifically modified to work with the Kha library for Haxe.  Eventually Kode Studio should be useful as an IDE for general Haxe development… maybe, read on for more on this.   From the release notes: The first public version of […]

  Corona Labs just released a Corona SDK auto complete package for the popular Atom text editor. From the release: We would like to announce the immediate availability of a code completion package for the Atom editor, which provides code completion as well as a description and links to the Corona Docs. You have two […]

  As always the patch can be downloaded here.  This patch contains: Improvements Documentation: In the scripting API, added information to Graphics.SetRenderTarget() and CommandBuffer.SetRenderTarget() about using linear lighting mode. Updated the wording about using linear lighting mode in the Graphics.Blit() entry. iOS/IL2CPP: Added support for Xcode 7.3 (don’t use __declspec attributes). Samsung TV: Added support […]