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 […]

  SDKBOX started life as a tool that made integrating 3rd party SDKs such as Google Analytics or Google/Apple IAP into Cocos2d-x applications easy.  It was just recently spun out from under the Cocos2d-x project by parent company Chukong.  This move seems to be in advance of adding support for other engines, namely Unreal and […]

  I have to say, I just came across this custom branch of Blender and it’s astonishingly good.  In addition to a number of improvements to viewport lighting, this Blender branch actually brings PBR (Physically Based Rendering) to the Blender viewport.  To really appreciate what has been accomplished here, you really need to check out […]

  In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, today at the Vision VR/AR Summit, Valve announced they will be bringing SteamVR support to Unity, as well as a new VR rendering plugin for extended functionality. From the announcement: Today, during the opening keynote of the inaugural Vision VR / AR Summit, Valve and Unity […]

  This news care of /r/gamedev, EA have released EASTL under the BSD license on Github. EASTL has been around for ages, and got a limited release a number of years back, but this is the first time there has been a complete release under a BSD license.  EASTL is an implementation of the Standard […]

  Intel RealSense is a technology and SDK for computer vision including motion controls, facial recognition and more.  There are several cameras and laptops on the market these days that are compatible with RealSense.  Very similar in scope and function to Kinect for the Xbox and Xbox One. Well, earlier this week a plugin was […]

  Another week another Unity patch.  No new functionality, this patch was populated entirely with fixes: Fixes (742199) – Android: Fixed remote frame debugger. (none) – Android: Marshmallow – Added the possibility to disable the permission dialog by adding metadata to the activity. (755510) – Android: Mono – Fixed crash on startup with Unity Ads […]