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 […]

  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 […]