Game Development News, Tutorials and More
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Humble Grand Game Dev Toolbox bundle is a collection of tools, sprites, maps, effects and other assets for creating games. We will focus primarily on the 4 tools included in the pack. Sprite Illuminator Sprite Illuminator is a […]
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Raylib is an open source C/C++ powered framework for game development we first covered way back in 2016. Since that time Raylib has grown in popularity and recently released Raylib 4.0 with a ton of new features and functionality. In addition to the game development framework however, there are also
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During my recent MagicaVoxel video I mentioned that this application deserves a place on my “Top 10 free game development tools” list. Then I realized I’d never created such a list, so now I have! This is a collection of 10 free (as in money, not freedom, although many are open source as well) tools […]
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LibGDX have just released version 1.9.7. LibGDX is a popular open source Java based game framework, although releases have been somewhat infrequent of late. We have extensively covered it in the past with text and video tutorials available here and here if you are interested in learning more. This release includes several compatibility upgrades including […]
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HaxeFlixel 4.3.0 was just released. HaxeFlixel is a Haxe port of the popular Flixel 2D game engine. If you are interested in learning more about HaxeFlixel we have a complete audio and text tutorial series.Details of the release from the changelog:New features:FlxTween: added cancelChain() (#1988) FlxMatrix: added transformX() and transformY() (dcc66b3) FlxCamera: added containsPoint() (#1964) […]
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Unity have released a new patch, 5.4.1p3. This one is entirely composed of bug fixes, including: Improvements IL2CPP: Added an option to link.xml files to ignore missing assemblies. Fixes (830443) – AI: Fix for regression where a pushed passive NavMeshAgent would sometimes move to its origin after navmesh carving. (755398) – AssetBundles: Fixed high […]
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Never in the history of game development have indie developers, or developers in general, had access to such a massive array of resources. What is perhaps most impressive is that so many of these tools are available at no cost. That is exactly what this guide is going to look at, and end to […]
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Welcome back to our ongoing tutorial series on using the Heaps framework with the Haxe programming language. In the first tutorial we covered the configuration and programming a simple game using Heaps. Then we covered the basics of 2D graphics in the next tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to look at using […]
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One of the challenges with prototyping games is finding assets to work with. Simple boxes are fine, but if you are working on a game with animations this proves a bit more challenging. Therefore I created a simple sequence of spritesheets you can use in your game. The package includes an idle, walk cycle, […]
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The following is a recap of major events in the world of game development for the week ending April 17th, 2016. I do a weekly video recapping the news available here with this week’s video embedded below. This post is a collection of links mentioned in the recap. What Indiepocalpyse? New Xamarin Release […]
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