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I have been following the Loom Engine since it was first publicly released.  I even did a five part guided tour of Loom Engine functionality, so this is one that I’ve been keeping an eye on.  One of the major aspects of Loom was it was layered over top of Cocos2D-x, for better or worse. (Sadly, […]

  A few months ago during GDC, Havok announced Project Anarchy, which was a collection of their game development tools made available FOR FREE for mobile developers.  Then we had the long wait for it to go live.  Fortunately today I received the following email: Hey Everyone, Our team has been hard at work and […]

Picbox for PlayStation Mobile has just been cleared for release.  Here is Picbox in action:     So, what does this have to do with GameFromScratch? Well, I received the following tweets yesterday:     Even got a mention in the credits! 🙂   I always loving hearing that I helped someone out.  Congratulations to […]

As reported on Gamasutra, Microsoft have made a massive u-turn on their controversial always online, no reselling games policy.   You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. […]

Dreemchest, the Lua based cross platform 2D game engine (and GFS sponsor!) have just released RC147.  The biggest new feature has to be the ability to publish your game to the Flash player.  That said, there were a number of additional improvements including support for ads and in-app purchases, two features that are basically a […]

I mentioned last week about a new blog tutorial series covering creating a game engine from scratch, quite literally.  The series deals with the low level stuff we just don’t normally deal with these days as Direct3D, OpenGL or WebGL take care of a lot of this for you.  Sometimes knowing how these things work can […]

I am a big proponent of Blender so I am always quite interested in how it is going to develop.  Recent releases have been all about bringing a number of projects that have been in the works for years back into the fold.  Functionality like BMesh and the Cycles renderer are now part of the […]

So a few weeks back the RazerBlade 14″ laptop was announced and frankly this is exactly the kind of machine I have been looking for for a very long time.  I am exclusively a laptop user, but also a gamer and obviously as a game creator, I put a certain additional demand on my machines. […]