Another week, another Unity patch.  This one is actually pretty meaty in the fix category, about twice as many fixes as usual, which I have to assume is a good sign. From the release notes: Features Metal: Add -force-metal switch to force Metal rendering on OSX/iOS. Improvements Editor: Added warning dialog if there is […]

  I love C#, probably my favourite general purpose programming language at the end of the day.  In the early days however, C# was heavily tied to Microsoft’s ecosystem.  Then a little company named Ximian created a Mono, an open source implementation of C#.  At first the relationship between Microsoft and Ximian (and Microsoft and […]

  We mentioned a few weeks back that Godot 2.0 Beta was released.  Today we can remove the beta moniker from the release, the full blown release of Godot 2 is now here.  Major new features from the release include: NEW CORE FEATURES While for 2.0 core changes were not a priority, there are some […]

  Today Xamarin announced the release of SkiaSharp, available now on Github.  SkiaSharp is based on Google’s Skia library.  The library was released under the MIT source license.   From the release: Today we’re launching SkiaSharp, a cross-platform, high-performance 2D API for .NET developers available across mobile, desktops, and servers. SkiaSharp provides a powerful C# […]

  Corona SDK has been getting a lot of updates since it was recently acquired by Perk, which is never a bad thing.  Today saw another release of the Corona SDK, a cross platform game focused Lua based framework.   Update 2016.2830 brings the following changes/new features: With this release, both OS X and Windows […]

  Coppercube 5.4, a full WYSWYG editor experience for HTML5 game development, just released version 5.4 as a free updated. From the release notes: This is a free update for all existing users, download it here. New in this update: Heightmap import support for terrainIf you want to sculpt your 3D world terrain with another […]

  Unreal Engine just received a hotfix for their stable release of 4.10.3.  The hotfix contained the following fixes: Fixed! OPP-4947 Installation Error code R-1638 / Unable to upgrade to 4.10.1 through launcher if 4.11 has been installedFixed! UE-13030 Crash related to loading sub-level – UEngine::LoadMap()Fixed! UE-22075 Crash on compile when nodes use same name […]

  Phaser, the cross platform HTML5 based game library I covered in this tutorial series, just released version 2.4.5.  From the release: Phaser 2.4.5 is our first release in 2016 and represents several months of fixes and optimizations. As a point release it’s a safe update from a previous 2.4 build, but as always please […]

  Another popular Haxe based 2D game engine, Snowkit just release Alpha 2. The update notes are rather sprawling so I have excerpt the majority of the changes below.  Go check out the full post for even more details: Changes Woo, there’s a lot to cover. I’ll state this right up top for clarity:I believe […]

  Flixel was/is a popular game engine written for the Flash programming language.  It unfortunately hasn’t been updated in many years.  However HaxeFlixel is a port of Flixel to the Haxe cross platform programming language which is very much in fact under active development.  In fact, HaxeFlixel 4.0 was just released today!  This is also […]