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As we reported back in december, Torque2D was going open source.  Well, the day has finally arrived, Torque2D’s source code is up on Github now.     So what is Torque2D?  It is a 2D cross platform game engine, previously under a commercial license.  I will let them describe their baby:     In simple […]

  In a move that is causing a small bit of Déjà vu, Blackberry and Unity released the following to the press today:   BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) and Unity Technologies today announced that they are working together to create a Unity deployment add-on product for BlackBerry® 10 smartphones, empowering Unity’s over 1.5 million strong developer community […]

  This press release caught my eye and could be of interest to many of you, especially if you are looking for money or perhaps more importantly, exposure. Kongregate, a leading online game platform, today announced the Kongregate Mobile Developers program, a $10 million fund to help independent game developers succeed in the free-to-play mobile […]

  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 […]