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  Along side the release of Visual Studio 2015 SP1, Microsoft shipped a new version of the TypeScript programming language.  I personally am a huge fan of TypeScript, but I am not entirely certain I am onboard with the changes introduced in 1.7.  Speaking of those changes, here they are, taken from the MSDN TypeScript […]

Corona Labs, makers of the popular Lua based game engine CoronaSDK have been acquired by Perk a mobile rewards provider. From the Corona blog: Today, I’m really happy to announce that Corona and the team are joining Perk. Perk is a publicly traded, profitable company that has built a service/platform that rewards people for everyday […]

  Each year Black Friday has more and more game development deals.  Each year it also gets earlier and earlier… Black Thursday, Black Wednesday, you name it and of course they are trying to stretch it out with Cyber Monday.  This post is an attempt to capture the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals most relevant to […]

  Quixel just released version 2 of their suite of products.  Quixel Suite is composed of: NDO Painter DDO Painter 3DO Baker   You can currently purchase the entire suite for $99 on an indie license or $409 on a commercial license, which represents a 25% savings.   As to what Quixel actually is, it’s […]

  Construct2, the popular visual HTML5 game engine, just released version R218 beta.  From the release notes: New this release: support for NW.js 0.13.0-alpha6 with a few bug fixes, experimental support for recording a video of the canvas with Firefox, and pressure and size information for touches, particularly relevant for the iPhone 6S with its […]

  A new beta release of the Krita drawing package; mostly an under the hood revision to add animation support on the road to Krita 3 release.   From the release post: Today we are happy to announce the long awaited beta-version of Krita with Animation and Instant Preview support! Based on Krita 2.9, you […]

  Quickly after the open sourcing of Goo engine,  Goo have announced a new version of their Goo Create tool.  They also launched a new developer forum. From the announcement: New Features/Improvements UI Overview inside of Create New users get presented with a general UI overview of the Dashboard and Create. Hopefully this will help […]

  This one has to be about the most ironic timing of a contest ever, as just last night I started working with Kotlin and IntelliJ (expect a post later today)… anyways, on to the competition.  The nutshell version, you create a Kotlin app using IntelliJ or Android Studio, submit it on Github and you […]

  Phaser, the popular open source HTML5 game engine, are having a 50% off Black Friday sale (*cough* It’s Wednesday btw… *cough*) with all of their items half price.  I’m a huge fan of Phaser, in fact did a complete tutorial series on using it, so love to see them get the support they deserve.  […]

  With the upcoming LibGDX jam, it dawned on me I hadn’t done anything with LibGDX in a while.  I decided to look into doing a mini game series in advance of the Jam and decided it was a good opportunity for me to look into the Kotlin programming language.  Ironically a day later, RoboVM […]