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Allegorithmic, makers of the popular Substance 3D painting suite among other products have just announced an excellent new way to purchase their products.   They announced a new program, Substance Live, details below were taken from this forum posting:     Basically, like many other packages, you can now subscribe to Substance Designer/Painter for a […]

  At GDC this week, Autodesk is announcing the release of Maya LT 2016.  Maya LT is a stripped down version of Maya aimed at the indie game market.  It also comes with a massively stripped down price tag and a monthly subscription option.  When Maya LT was first announced it had a number of glaring limitations. […]

  Along with the Maya LT release Autodesk also teased a bit about their upcoming game engine Stingray.  You may recall sometime back that Autodesk acquired a company called Bitsquid that were working on a light weight, cross platform C++ game engine.  However since that announcement we have heard absolutely nothing.  Considering their importance to the […]

Ok, just received the following email and wow, it’s a good one:       If you love something, set it free!       It’s been an amazing year for Unreal Engine 4. We’ve grown a lot, we’ve learned a lot, and with your help and feedback, made the engine easier to use and […]

Gotta just love GDC eh?  Hot on the heals of Unreal Engine getting rid of it’s subscription fee, we now learn the Corona, a popular cross platform Lua based mobile game engine, has gone free.  Of course there is still a subscription tier, that’s how they make money, but you get a great deal more […]

Unreal Engine 4.7 was released today and boy was it a good one.  In their words: Unreal Engine 4.7 is our biggest release yet, with the power to render huge numbers of instanced objects in large worlds, beautiful rendering of leaves and foliage, HDR texture support, in-editor animation editing, along with hundreds of optimizations and improvements. […]

  In their ongoing quest to take over the development world, Unreal have announced something really cool…  5 million dollars in grants to Unreal Developers!  Each project can receive between $5,000 and $50,000.  To be eligible you must have a working prototype.   So, what’s the catch?   None.   Really… nothing.     Although […]

  LÖVE, a Lua based game engine I covered wayyyyy back in Battle of the Lua Game Engines and also featured in the game development for kids article, just announced release 0.9.2 just in time for Valentines day.  The announcement follows:   Here are a few big changes and highlights, and the full changelog, as […]

  Nvidia just released version 4.5 of their NSight Visual Studio Edition graphics programming toolkit that I mentioned in the OpenGL resource roundup.   The follow are the major points of this new release: New NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 4.5 Features: Graphics Debugging and Profiling Expanded OpenGL API support to include the 4.3 core […]

  In this next part in the ongoing LibGDX Video tutorial series, we take our final look at the Scene2D library.  Specifically we look at using Scene2D to provide a UI, including buttons, windows, layout containers and more.  We also look at how to mix “normal” and Scene2D games together.    The video is available […]