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  It started with GameMaker, now it seems more and more game development packages are being added to Steam, generally at vastly discounted prices.  Today we see Leadwerks Game Engine: Indie Edition has been added for $99.  On the website, Leadwerks is $199.  The question is, what is the limitiation of “indie edition”?  That’s the […]

  There is a new entrant in the game engine space, the Godot game engine from Okam Studio.  The engine was apparently used for in-house projects and is over a decade in the making.  The editor runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and can target desktop, mobile, consoles as well as HTML.   From observation, […]

  Substance Designer is a visual texture creation tool which is currently 66% off on Steam, selling for 33.99$.  It’s a flash sale and only 2 1/2 hours to go, so you might want to act quick. Substance 4 integrates with most 3D modelling applications including Max, Maya, Modo as well as engines such as […]

  I just received the following email from Havok:   Project Anarchy December updates!   Happy Holidays Fellow Anarchists!   We can’t believe how fast the year has gone by. We announced Project Anarchy in March, launched in June, and ended the Beta in November. Here’s a recap what’s been going on: Project Anarchy 2013.2.5 […]

  Sorry for the bad pun, I really am.  Not sorry enough not to make it mind you! Anyways… Love 0.9.0 was released today.  In case you haven’t heard of it, Love is a 2D Lua based game development framework that was previously featured in the Battle of the Lua Game Engines post.  From the […]

  OpenFL, the popular cross platform gaming library formerly known as NME have recently released version 1.2.  The biggest addition is Tizen support.  Full release notes are below:   We are happy to announce that OpenFL 1.2 is now available, and includes a brand-new platform target, Tizen! Tizen is a new device platform, supported by […]

  So lately I’ve been working on my LibGDX tutorial series and I am certainly a fan of the library.  Java on the other hand, after years of using C#, just seems flawed.  Not that it is a bad language, just that it’s a bit kludgy.  Fortunately there are a number of languages built over […]

  I make no effort to disguise my dislike for Eclipse yet when working with LibGDX Eclipse is the path of least resistance. Fortunately there are other IDEs out there that can work with LibGDX, IntelliJ is my favorite of the options available.    First off, you should be aware that there are currently some […]

The standard edition of the popular GameMaker software has just gone free, a 50$ savings.  As was mentioned in this reddit post as well as this blog post if you update to the latest beta channel, you get the opportunity to upgrade to Standard from Free edition for free.  However if you check out the forums a fair number […]

    As you may be able to tell by the title… or the picture above, I am about to depart to somewhere a heck of a lot warmer than Toronto currently is!  It’s only a short vacation though, so expect posts to resume early next week.   Until then, see you at the beach! […]