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 […]

  The next version of OpenGL has been in the works for a very long time, and has taken many forms.  Previously known as GlNext, the project was instead renamed to Vulkan when AMD released the Mantle API.  Vulkan is much lower level than even OpenGL, leaving much more in the hands of the developer.  […]

  The Spring Engine has seen a pair of release candidates in the last week, RC 2 and RC 3 of version 101.  Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding. In […]

  Another preview release of Unreal 4.11 has been released, this one with some significant new animation functionality. With the fifth Preview release of 4.11 now available to download from the launcher, developers can now check out the new animation updates including; marker based syning for animations and Anim Dynamics Skeletal Control for Animation Blueprints […]

  A new version of Love, the popular Lua based 2D game engine, was released today.  Release 0.10.1 brings: Additions Added a new love.conf flag t.externalstorage, which determines whether files are saved in internal or external storage on Android devices. Added an optional ‘collideconnected’ boolean argument to love.physics.newMotorJoint. Added a new variant of love.graphics.arc which […]

  Welcome back to the ongoing Superpowers game engine tutorial series.  In the first part we got Superpowers installed and created our first project, in the second tutorial we look at Actors and Components, the “stuff that makes up your game world”.  Then we did a tutorial on Sprites and Animations give our “stuff” a […]

  In the first tutorial we looked at installing Superpowers, running the server and creating our first project.  In the next tutorial we got to know the editor, the relationship of Actors and Components and finally created a camera for our game.  In this tutorial we are going to draw a sprite on screen, then […]