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  Don’t you just love it when you are thinking about doing something, then someone else comes along and does exactly that thing for you?  Well, exactly just that very thing just happened to me.  I had long considered doing a comparison post of some of the most popular HTML5 game engines, facing them all […]

  LibGDX is a popular Java based open source cross platform game programming library that supports desktop, Android, HTML5 and now… iOS.   Other details about this release:   Minor changes to the Livewallpaper API. Note that the LWP support is still a little buggy. It’s a contribution, and while i did quite a bit […]

  Rim have released Gameplay 1.6, a 3D cross platform library for writing games for Blackberry 10, Playbook, PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices using C++.  This is a project we have been following here at GameFromScratch for quite a while, and given the complexity, its amazing just how fast you can get up to […]

Amazon have released Game Connect a system for offering DLC and other game purchases ( subscriptions? ) using Amazons infrastructure.   At first glance this seems pretty minor, yet another payment processor, but it is actually a rather large deal… why?  Because your purchasable game content will be included on Amazon.com, bringing massive exposure to small […]

I am testing my blogging software in a different mode.  That is what this post is all about, nothing exciting, sorry.   —————————————   Testing concluded and working mostly well.   If anyone is curious, a while back I did a series of posts about blogging on MacOS and the search for a Windows Live […]

  This one is a big one.  If you have never heard of it, monoGame started life as a way to port XNA applications to the various Mono targets (including iOS and Android), built on top of OpenGL.  With Microsoft basically retiring XNA, monoGame has basically become the future of XNA. The biggest and most […]

jMonkeyEngine, the popular, free and open source Java based game engine have just announced a mirror of their repository on GitHub.   This mirror is not official yet, and we might still make changes. Don’t make yourself reliant on it. Don’t make any pull requests to this repository, they will be ignored. We’d like to […]

  One of the themes of this site has always been to focus on low cost (or free) game development technologies.  As a result, you will tend to find content here tends to focus more on products like Blender or Wings instead of 3D Studio Max or Photoshop.  I will of course share any game […]

  I’ve been at a bit of a loss for what to work on next.  I am still going to be working on game math recipes, as well as the HTML based level editor, but I wanted to start a new tutorial series and couldn’t really decide what to work on.  Then I realized how […]

  You may have noticed an unsightly error message if you tried to access GameFromScratch.com this afternoon.  Well, long story short, GameFromScratch.com runs on one of Flexamail’s servers.  On the server where I happen to store database backups.  They occur weekly and are a few GB each in size, so if I forget about them, […]