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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 […]

Gotta just love GDC eh?  Hot on the heals of Unreal Engine getting rid of it’s subscription fee, we now learn the Corona, a popular cross platform Lua based mobile game engine, has gone free.  Of course there is still a subscription tier, that’s how they make money, but you get a great deal more […]

  In their ongoing quest to take over the development world, Unreal have announced something really cool…  5 million dollars in grants to Unreal Developers!  Each project can receive between $5,000 and $50,000.  To be eligible you must have a working prototype.   So, what’s the catch?   None.   Really… nothing.     Although […]

  Starting life as niche technology, costing millions of dollars and used only on high end films, 3D graphics have now become nearly ubiquitous these days.  Still used in movies ( nearly all movies these days ), 3D graphics are used heavily in games, TV, marketing, conceptualization, engineering and much much more.   In this […]

  Welcome to the first ever Steam Powered Game Dev review, a look at game development tools available on Steam.  This post looks at FUSE character creator by Mixamo.  In addition to this text review, you can watch the entire thing in video form by clicking right here, or using the embedded player at the […]

  This one falls under the category of “extremely awesome news”, Microsoft just announced Visual Studio Community 2013 and it’s completely free.   You may think to yourself… big deal, there is already Express and it’s free too.  Unlike Express however, Visual Studio 2013 Community is actually the complete version of Visual Studio, nothing has […]

  If you are a Steam user, you may have noticed that game development related tools have been popping up with increasing frequency.  From 2D and 3D art packages, to script writing utilities and complete game engines, Steam is becoming increasingly  mportant to indie developers.  Not just as a place to sell their games, but as […]

  The following is a collection of modern shader programming resources.  I intend to improve my knowledge of shader programming and intended to gather all the current resources I could access together in one place.  This resource (mostly) ignores HLSL ( Direct3D ) and custom implementations, like Unity3D. Please note, this resource is only about […]