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 […]

  Ever answered the question “If you could have any super power, what would it be?”  Myself, I’d go with whatever Superman has, as he seems to have the power to do whatever the heck he needs to have the power to do at any given time, so long as people don’t shove rocks from […]

  The release schedule seems to be really picking up on the Shiva engine.  Last year was months of silence with very few releases, while this release comes just under 2 months since the prior release.  Shiva is a C# based game engine with a WYSIWYG world editor.  Now in the 5th release of Beta […]

  Wave Engine, the cross platform C# based 2D/3D engine we looked at a while back, just released version 2.0.5.  The following new features were added in this release:   Viewport Manager is now VirtualScreenManager Per Scene View Configuration Anchors – position elements using screen coordinates 64 bit support   You can read more details, […]

  PBR, Physically-Based Rendering, is the new hotness in the CG world, especially with the increasing popular of Substance Painter.  The end result of that process is a number of textures specifically for channels such as Roughness, Metallic, etc.  Taking the results from Substance to Blender however hasn’t always been the easiest.  Now there exists […]