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Today over 4000 documents from Infocom were released on archive.org as the Infocom cabinet.  This collection of documents contains reams of design information from many classic text adventures including: Planetfall Sorcerer The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy A Mind Forever Voyaging Leather Goddesses of Phobos Stationfall Zork Zero   From the blog post announcing the […]

  As per this blog post the first ever LibGDX game jam is happening in mid December and topic voting has begun.  From the announcement: The 10 Rules of Jamming You must use libGDX to create a game that fits the theme You may work alone or in a team. Only one submission per person/team […]

  Until now your language choices when using Unreal Engine have either been the high level graphical Blueprints or low level C++.  Today however NCSoft, makers of Lineage, Guildwars and more just release an extension that adds Javascript support to UE4.  Announced on the UE4 forums (login may be required) the extension was released on […]

  RoboVM, the makers of technology that enabled you to run Java applications (such as LibGDX) on iOS, just released version 1.11.  The major features of this release are Bitcode, iOS 9.1 and Kotlin support. From the complete release notes: Experimental Bitcode Support We’ve been hard at work adding initial bitcode support to RoboVM. Bitcode […]

  Recently I just finished a tutorial covering creating isometric maps using the Tiled map editor.  One commonly occurring question was “where can I get tiled-friendly isometric tile sets?” for free.  The answer unfortunately is there aren’t a ton of options.  There are a few good isometric tile sets out there (I may cover this […]

  Just a quick note to announce a new series I have started, The GameDev Toolbox.   The series is intended to bring exposure to a wide variety of tools used in game development.  This includes graphic creation packages, IDEs, audio tools, design tools and more.  Basically if it isn’t a library, framework or game […]

  The Leadwerks Game Engine game launcher now works with SteamOS with a few caveats.  From the Leadwerks blog: Leadwerks Game Launcher now works with SteamOS, with some caveats. First, you must set the application to use the “Official Bindings” controller configuration by Leadwerks Software. When you start Leadwerks Game Launcher on SteamOS, a page […]

  I remember using Allegro wayyyyyy back in the day in the early 1990s.  It was one of few graphics libraries available for DOS based machines (even though it started life as an Atari library) and certainly one of the only free game libraries available.  Amazingly enough Allegro is still under active development.  Anyways enough […]

  I have noticed that there isn’t one good single source for game development news.  When a new game engine is announced or a new version of a critical tool, library or engine is released, there is no easy way to hear about it.  I hope to step in and fix this with GameFromScratch.  I […]