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  In a project that sounds disturbingly similar to VRML of days gone past, Mozilla have launched AFrame, a technology intended to bring VR to the web without requiring WebGL programming knowledge.  An attempt to make a 3D Oculus friendly web browsing experience ( think cyberspace/ the matrix ) easy to create.   From the […]

  Just in time for the first ever LibGDX Game Jam, LibGDX 1.7.2 was released.    This released included the following updates: [1.7.2] – Added AndroidAudio#newMusic(FileDescriptor) to allow loading music from a file descriptor, see #2970 – Added GLOnlyTextureData, which is now the default for FrameBuffer and FrameBufferCubemap, see #3539 – Added rotationChanged() for Actor […]

  The first ever LibGDX Jam starts tomorrow, or today, or yesterday or sometime ago, I suppose it’s all relative to when you read this, isn’t it?  Well temporal factors aside, the first ever LibGDX Game Jam begins/began on Friday Dec 18th.  It is called creatively enough #LibGDXJam.  The rules and prizes from this jam […]

  Today Ludei released a new version of their game focused HTML5 app wrapper Cocoon, now called Cocoon.io and based on Cordova.  I was beginning to think Cocoon was no more, so it is nice to see a new release.   From the announcement: Cocoon.io has been designed from the ground up to try to […]

  Over the years there have been many tutorial series here on GameFromScratch, many of them aimed at beginning game developers.  What there has never been is a series for complete beginners.  Every single programming tutorial I have ever written has assumed prior programming experience.  Today I am launching a new series that will change […]

  Via BlenderNation a great collection of Blender materials came to my attention and I figured I would share.  Blender user Mackraken is a bit of a hoarder of materials and this certainly works to our advantage!  He has made a complete collection of shaders available for our use, all nicely organized using matlib.   […]

  Back in October I had the following Twitter conversation with Nat Friedman of Xamarin.   It appears that this process has begun, at least for a limited time and for published developers.  From this announcement at Xamarin: Christmas comes early for indie game developers Because we love seeing indie games succeed, Xamarin wants to […]

  GDX AI, a Java based AI library that works with (but doesn’t require) LibGDX just released version 1.7.   From the change log: [1.7.0] – Updated to libgdx 1.7.1 – API Addition: added GdxAI service locator that reduces coupling with libgdx and allows you to use gdx-ai out of a libgdx application without having […]

  Don’t you just love it when someone else does your job for you?  As part of my recently completed Tiled tutorial series I was considering doing a pretty detailed tutorial on integrating it into one of the modern C# based game engines.  One engine certainly up for consideration was the Wave Engine, somewhat recently […]

  On the heels of the recent acquisition of Corona by Perk, Corona just announced the private beta release of Corona Ads:   Only a few weeks have gone by since Corona Labs joined the Perk team and we already have some exciting news for developers. We are announcing the Beta for Corona Ads! Corona […]