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Programmer Art: A simple Jet blend for generating game sprites and how to use it

  Today while putting together this Phaser spritesheet tutorial I found myself needing a series of sprites to create a sprite sheet with.  Downloading samples from the web can be a tedious process, especially when TexturePacker wants individual frames.  Then I remembered the Blend file for my Blender Game Art tutorial was sitting on my […]

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Phaser 2.1.1 released

    Apparently on September the 9th Phaser 2.1 was released  followed quickly by the ohhhh oops Phaser 2.1.1 hotfix release.  It is important to note that this release has some code breaking changes in it, so read carefully before upgrading to see how your code might be impacted!     The release notes:   […]

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Two new open source game tool releases. DT3, a 3D game engine and a generic level editor from Sony

  Over the past day there have been a pair of announcements on reddit that are relevant to game developers.  The first is Sony released and open source generic 3D level editor, generically enough called ATF Level Editor.  ATF stands for Authoring Tools Framework, which they open sourced earlier, ATF is a framework of mostly […]

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Gideros stops development of cross platform Lua game engine and releases source code

 In a piece of bittersweet news, Gideros have announced that they have open sourced their cross platform 2D game system. I explored Gideros a couple years ago when I did a round-up of LUA game engines. For the Gideros forums: Hello folksGideros Source releasedso as you know recently we finally released Gideros Source, which is now available […]

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Unity release 4.6 Beta and announced open sourcing of new UI System

Today ( well yesterday technically ) Unity announced the open beta of Unity 4.6.  Along with that announcement was news that they would be open sourcing a much of their new UI system along with other open source projects that I didn’t actually know about.   First, let’s look at what’s new in Unity 4.6: Features […]

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