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  The following is a list of every single tutorial/tip/review/guide ever published on GameFromScratch.com. It is an embedded Google Docs spreadsheet, available here in non-embedded form. General GameFromScratch Tutorial

Urho3D an open source cross platform C++ based engine I covered in detail here, just released version 1.4.    The following are the changes:   Changelog Direct3D11 and OpenGL 3 rendering. Shader Model 2 support removed. Experimental Emscripten support. Raspberry-Pi 2 support. Overhauled build system with better out-of-source build support & source tree reorganization. Add […]

  Another in Blenders ongoing series teaching Blender in one hour chunks.  This video covers uvmapping, textures and materials in Blender:   It joins these previous parts in the series:   An Hour with Blender and GameFromScratch.com — Blender Introduction and Overview Another Hour with Blender and GameFromScratch.com — This hour covers 3D modelling A Couple Hours […]

  Just got an email from Mixamo with some pretty cool information.  Basically Mixamo’s web client was based around Unity player, and Google killed off Unity player, so they had to port to a pure WebGL version, Mixamo 2.  As part of this transition they are now offering free Autorigs to Mixamo Fuse customers.  I […]

  I hate to say, but I’ve put it off as long as I possibly could.  The seams are bursting, the pipes are leaking and unsightly mold is starting to cover all the surfaces.  Point blank, GameFromScratch.com needs a renovation.   Even though I’ve worked in web in the past, I actually despise doing web […]

  SFML, the Simple and Fast Media Library, just release version 2.3.  SFML is a cross platform C++ based mostly 2D based game library built over top of OpenGL.  Although getting a bit long in the tooth, GameFromScratch created an SFML C++ game dev tutorial series if you are interested in learning more.   As […]

    As part of our ongoing “Closer Look at” series, today we will be looking at the Babylon HTML5 3D game engine.  These posts are a mashup of a review, preview and tutorial aimed at giving you a quick overview of what to expect from the game engine in question. If you prefer, there […]

  Title kinda says it all.  Version 1.6 of the popular, cross platform Java based game library LibGDX was just released.  The changelog from the release: [1.6.0] – API Change: GlyphLayout xAdvances now have an additional entry at the beginning. This was required to implement tighter text bounds. #3034 – API Change: Label#getTextBounds changed to […]

  Right when Unreal Engine 4 was released I promptly downloaded it on my Macbook Air.  Obviously I wasn’t expecting exceptional performance but where I was truly staggered was battery life.  When I started my battery was showing 9 hours remaining.  51 minutes later my machine died.  Wow.  Of course any machine running intensive CPU […]

  Yesterday Microsoft announced the released of Visual Studio Code, a cross platform code editor.  Today I have decided to take a closer look.  I certainly wouldn’t call this a review, I have barely used the application.  Instead this is more of a first impressions tour, just a quick heads up of what the Visual […]