Today Amazon launched the Lumberyard Game Engine a modified and completely open source version of the CryEngine from Crytek.  Free.  So, what’s the catch?  You have to run your server component either on your own server or using Amazon’s web services.  Yeah, that’s it.  A pretty sweat deal all around.  So today I took […]

  Not every day that there is a new player in the AAA game space, but that’s exactly what just happened with the release of Lumberyard by Amazon.  Amazon has been getting more and more involved with gaming with the launch of their own game studio coupled with their purchased of Double Helix games back […]

  In the previous tutorial we installed the Superpowers game engine and created our first game.  In this tutorial we are going to get comfortable with the editor and create our first scene.  First let’s start with the editor, which we should have loaded at the conclusion of the last part.  In the top left […]

  This story coming care of /r/gamedev, BDX released version 0.2.3.  BDX is a game engine hosted inside Blender using LibGDX and Java for game programming.  Essentially it enables you to define and create your game in Blender, including complete physics integration, while generating LibGDX code.  I did a pretty in-depth tutorial on working with […]

  The road map for the Atomic Game Engine, which we looked at late last year, was just released and highlights upcoming developments for the engine. 2016 Roadmap DISCLAIMER: As with most roadmaps, this one is subject to change. This is a snapshot of current planning and priorities, things get moved around, opportunities happen, etc. […]

  While this one is certainly skirting the border of game development news as almost no games were developed for Firefox OS, but the death of an OS generally merits at least a few lines of text. Started in 2011, the first Firefox OS device shipped in 2013, FF OS was designed as a Linux […]

  I have to say this one is pretty cool and possibly not what you think.  The Unreal Engine is getting VR support.  That’s not as in support for VR platforms, it already has that.  No, Unreal Editor is soon going to have support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift enabling you to edit […]

  Another week another Unity patch.  From the release notes, it seems that Blackberry support was just dropped: Improvements Smart TV: Correspond 2016 TV’s fonts and remote controller. Fixes (759408), (760759) – Android/iOS: Animation – Fixed Euler angles on rotation causing Transform to be set to NaN. (none) – BlackBerry: Removed BlackBerry option from build […]