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  … in beta form, that is.  It was announced a while back that Unity was working on a Linux version of their editor.  It appears it has finally arrived, according to this blog post, replicated below:   Hello again, lovely people! Last month, I wrote a blog post detailing our plans for Unity on […]

  I’m about to date myself brutally with this post (hint… I’m old… much older than this book, which is also old ), however when I stumbled upon this book it stirred a bit of my childhood in a way that no Michael Bay butchered film can even attempt.  You see my first home computer […]

  In this tutorial in our ongoing Paradox3d Game Engine tutorial series  we are going to look at controlling a Paradox game engine scene programmatically.  This includes accessing entities created in the editor, creating new entities, loading assets and more.  It should give you a better idea of the relationship between the scene and your […]

Today marks the official release of jMonkeyEngine 3.1 alpha. Generally I wouldn’t make a news post over a minor alpha release but a) jme has been pretty quite lately b) I’m currently looking at this engine right now c) it’s a pretty massive release. In addition to underlying changes like a move to github, transition […]

  In this part of the ongoing Paradox3D Game Engine tutorial series we are going to accomplish two tasks.  First we are going to show how to set the resolution of our game in Paradox Studio.  We will then look at an example of extending Game and implementing the same thing using code.  This will […]

  In this part of the Paradox3D game engine tutorial series we are now going to look at how you actually program your games.  In the end you will discover that it’s actually a pretty straightforward process, but could certainly use some streamlining.  ( The option to generate a .cs file when you add a […]

  Paradox ships with a full 3D editor named Paradox Studio.  In this tutorial we are going to take a look at what it can do and how it works.    Once again, there is an HD video version of this tutorial available.   Paradox Studio Introduction   This is Paradox Studio:   This is […]

    EDIT:  The tutorial series announced below is now live and available here.   Hello All, just a quick update on an upcoming tutorial series here on GameFromScratch.com.   I have recently been looking at the Paradox game engine, cumulating in a Closer Look at Paradox3D.   I rather enjoyed my time with the engine, […]

  It was becoming clear that Autodesk was entering the game market when they purchased BitSquid back in June of last year.  In addition to making the Magicka series of games, they also created the BitSquid game engine.  In March of 2015 Autodesk announced that Bitsquid was now the Stingray Game Engine and that it […]

  My primary laptop was misbehaving in so many ways I was about ready to do a complete re-install.  It was randomly turning itself on from hibernate for example, which lead to an overheating and half dead laptop half the time I got to where I was going.  Fortunately the Windows 10 release was on […]