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  If I am completely honest up front, right from the very beginning the HTC Vive was an also ran to me.  The Samsung GearVR was first to market, while the Oculus Rift certainly had the brand recognition and the majority of the press.  Suddenly however with the pre-orders of the Oculus Rift, most of […]

  Special thanks to @Dillybob on Twitter for bringing this engine to my attention.  QICI Engine is a HTML5 game engine and toolset layered over top of Pixi and Phaser, a library I am a huge fan of.  The engine is well documented and completely free.  The source is available although oddly enough the Github […]

  Tiled, the popular open source level editor, just released version 0.15.0.   From the release notes: Those who remember the Tiled 0.14 release announcement may remember that I wanted the next release to be Tiled 1.0. We’re not entirely there yet, but Tiled took a big step towards being more functionally complete. The most […]

  Another Unity 5.3 patch was released today.   From the release notes: Fixes (750357) – iOS: Added font containing Lao characters to the fallback list. (none) – iOS: Don’t enable bitcode by default for Mono. (none) – OpenGL core: Fixed a crash with AMD and NVIDIA on Windows when using RenderTexture with recent drivers. […]

  The event many people have been waiting for… the ability to order an Oculus Rift of your own has now arrive.  You can now pre-order an Oculus Rift today by clicking here.   So, the news everyone is waiting for… how much exactly is the Rift going to cost?   GULP!   $600???  Wow…  […]

  Ok, this one is a bit off the topic of game development, but I figured I would share it here for other people struggling with slow renders in Camtasia.  I use Camtasia Studio for all of the video tutorials here on GameFromScratch and while I enjoy the program, rendering speeds vary between awful and […]

  LibGDX, the cross platform open source Java based gaming library, just released version 1.8 today and unlike many recent releases, there is a ton in this release.  The biggest aspect of this release is probably the change to LWJGL 3 on the backend.  LWJGL is a Light Weight (that’s the LW part) Java (the […]

  This is a tutorial on getting started with Samsung’s GearVRf framework with the Samsung Gear VR.  The GearVR is a virtual reality headset powered by Oculus Rift technology and a modern Samsung android phone.  The GearVRf SDK is a framework made available by Samsung enabling you to develop for the GearVR using Java.  If […]

  Earlier we look at getting started doing Gear VR development using Samsung’s GearVRf library.  In that tutorial I mentioned a few times that it is a great deal easier to get started doing Gear VR development using the Unity game engine.  Today we are going to look at the process of getting a game […]

  We recently covered getting started in GearVR development using Samsung’s GearVRf library and the Unity Engine.  Today we are going to finish it off with coverage of getting started using the Unreal Engine.  As with the Unity tutorial, although this is focused on the GearVR, most of the instruction should be equally valid for […]