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Today the Blender foundation announced the release of Blender 2.75. Not really a ton there from game developers specifically but a solid release all the same. Image by Cosmos Laundromat – cosmoslaundromat.orgBlender Foundation and the blender.org developer community are proud to present the official Blender 2.75 release. The main highlights of this release are:Blender now supports […]
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Hello All, just a quick state of the union of what’s going on at GameFromScratch.com, what’s in the pipeline for the near future and announcing an exciting (IMHO at least) change in our Patreon campaign. New Perks for Patreon Backers GameFromScratch.com somewhat recently launched a Patreon campaign. Instead of splitting time between […]
Announcing new Patreon Benefits and Whats in the works here at GameFromScratch.com Read More
Unreal just released version 4.8 of their popular Unreal Engine. This is some very good timing as my recently released Tilemap tutorial depended on some key new features in the 4.8 preview release. The timing of this announcement seems somewhat… shocking, given that Unreal 5.1 was just released. That said, this tit for […]
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This tutorial series covers all aspects of creating a 2D game using Unreal Engine. It is my intention to eventually create an identical series covering Unity, so people can directly compare the workflow of both game engines. This series is in both text and video form. All coding is done using Blueprints although I […]
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As part of GameFromScratch’s ongoing A Closer look at game engine series, today we are going to be taking a look at LibGDX, a Java based cross platform game engine(sorta). The “Closer Look” series is intended to be a cross between a tutorial, review and overview of a game engine, aimed at helping those […]
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The following are the multi part tutorial series hosted on GameFromScratch.com. They are listed by a mix of chronological order and popularity. If it exists, the link will bring you to the series table of contents, otherwise there may be multiple links. Godot 3 Game Engine Tutorial Series Godot 3 is a massively updated version […]
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Just got an email from Mixamo with some pretty cool information. Basically Mixamo’s web client was based around Unity player, and Google killed off Unity player, so they had to port to a pure WebGL version, Mixamo 2. As part of this transition they are now offering free Autorigs to Mixamo Fuse customers. I […]
Mixamo 2.0 launched. Offers free auto rigs now Read More
As part of our ongoing “Closer Look at” series, today we will be looking at the Babylon HTML5 3D game engine. These posts are a mashup of a review, preview and tutorial aimed at giving you a quick overview of what to expect from the game engine in question. If you prefer, there […]
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Right when Unreal Engine 4 was released I promptly downloaded it on my Macbook Air. Obviously I wasn’t expecting exceptional performance but where I was truly staggered was battery life. When I started my battery was showing 9 hours remaining. 51 minutes later my machine died. Wow. Of course any machine running intensive CPU […]
Unreal Engine development on laptops. Tips to maximize battery life Read More
In the previous tutorial we created a new project but didn’t really go anywhere with it. Instead we were focusing more on learning our way around the Unreal Engine interface. By the way, with each tutorial I assume you are familiar with the subject matter of the tutorial that came before it. This tutorial […]
Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Two: Your first application Read More