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  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 […]

  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 […]

  Microsoft Imagine just released a trio of coding kits aimed at teaching game programming concepts to kids using Visual Studio and Unity.  The kits include teaching slides as well as complete project files.  The three new kits are: Check out December’s exciting coding kits: Binary Break-In Crack the binary code, teach a safe the […]

  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 […]

  Today on the Xamarin blog, they announced the release of Urhosharp.  You may recall I covered Urho3D a while back in the Closer Look at Series.  From the announcement: Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as installing a single […]

  Last week I announced the Xamarin port of Urho3D to .NET and in the resulting /r/gamedev conversation it was discovered that the license it was released under required you to use Xamarin products.  This obviously caused a great deal of annoyance within the community.  Fortunately today Miguel de Icaza CTO at Xamarin announced that […]

  SideFx software just announced the release of Houdini Engine for Unreal.  Houdini is a long standing procedurally based 3D modeling, animating and rendering application which was until recently a fairly poor fit for game development.  With Houdini 15 they added the following game oriented features: To enhance the creation of procedural game assets, Side […]

  BabylonJS is a popular 3D game engine for WebGL that I covered back in the spring.  Today Sébastien Pertus at Microsoft announced the release of a project generator available on npm:   Today I want to share with you a new project I work on those days. The idea is to bring you a […]

  Having never used or even heard of sketch based animation you can’t help but feel like a “someone changes something in the matrix” moment, when not one but two stories cross your desk in the same week.   The first was release of VPaint Beta 1.5.  It is in their own words: VPaint is […]