Welcome to another episode in the “Closer Look at” game engine series.  The closer look series is a combination of getting started tutorial and review to help you determine if a game engine is the right fit for you.  Today we are looking at the QICI Engine and HTML5 game engine built over top […]

  This news comes via Gamasutra, Valve Software release their Steam Link SDK on Github.  SteamLink is a Linux powered box that enables you to stream your Steam library directly to your TV like you currently can between two PCs today. From the github readme: This is the SDK for the Valve Steam Link Hardware: […]

  Remember when you used to wait months to years for updates for your game engine?  Isn’t competition a wonderful thing?   Along with today’s Unreal Preview release we get word of the new weekly Unity patch, 5.3.1p3.   From the release notes: Features Added link to learn more about Unity Cloud Build in the Build […]

  Want a little extra spice in your development life?  Does juggling live hand grenades, chainsaws and lit dynamite sound like a fun way to spend the afternoon?  Then have I got news for you!  Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 2 has been made available.  Obviously it’s a “you get what you get” type preview release […]

  To be honest, I am shocked it took this long.  JetBrains have made an excellent Java IDE for ages.  Then they released IDEs for just about every single language out there, as well as the C# refactoring tool Resharper, but never a full blown C# IDE, until today that is. Interestingly though, this isn’t […]

  Welcome to the final part of our three part series on level creation using Blender.  In the first part of the tutorial we created a skybox for our world.  In the second we used a height map to create some terrain.  Today we are going to look at applying multiple textures to that terrain. […]

  In Part One of our level creation in Blender tutorial series, we created a skybox to define the boundaries of our game level.  In this tutorial we are going to create the terrain for our level.  You will probably be surprised by just how much we can accomplish with almost zero effort.   Creating […]

  Corona Labs, the makers of the popular Lua based mobile game engine, just release version 1.6 of Corona Editor.  Corona Editor is a light weight IDE built as a plugin for Sublime Text that enables debugging, code snippets, code completion and more. Details of the 1.6 release from the blog announcement: Corona Labs is […]

  This tutorial covers the basics of creating game levels in Blender.  There are a set of companion videos on YouTube that cover the same topics.  We will be looking first at creating a skybox to define the boundaries and skyline of our game.  Next we create the terrain of the game using a displacement […]