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  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 […]

  Blend4Web have launched a Christmas/New Year themed contest with a $1000 prize pool.  Full details follow: Description We are happy to announce the first Blend4Web contest – a competition in creating interactive scenes for the Web! The theme is: X-Mas and New Year! The days when static images, video and Flash were enough to […]

  Unity Technologies just released version 5.3 of their popular Unity game engine.  The biggest news of this release is probably that WebGL is no longer an experimental platform and is considered a fully supported target.  Apple TV support is also coming soon, but as of right now it is in beta only.   The […]

  This tutorial came about as a result of a question on my YouTube channel, although it is one of those things that you are going to need to know before long in 3D game programming, so I have made the answer part of the official Godot Engine tutorial series.  The question was: I am […]

  Following the recent release of Unreal Engine 4.10, Epic just released a hotfix.  From the announcement: Fixed! UE-23364 Make sure that Perforce integration works with SSL connections when compiled with VS2015Fixed! UE-21181 [CrashReport] Object from PIE level still referenced. (via FWorldContext in UEngine::AddReferencedObjects?)Fixed! UE-23371 [CrashReport] UE4Editor_GraphEditor!FNodeFactory::CreateNodeWidget() nodefactory.cpp:91Fixed! UE-23372 [CrashReport] Indexing Blueprints for FiB data […]