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 […]

  Out of the box Unreal Engine 4 has support for C++ and Blueprints.  This leaves a bit of a gap for people that want more of a scripting experience but don’t want to work in a visual language like Blueprints.  Of course we have full source code access and Unreal Engine has solid plugin […]

  … however the ultimate question of price remains unanswered.  In an interview on the Guardian, HTC CEO Cher Wang announced the February 29th pre-order date, with wider commercials sales beginning in April.  Perhaps of more interest from the interview is just how much HTC is betting the company on Virtual Reality.  Suddenly HTCs involvement […]

  Today Paymentwall released an SDK for the popular game engine Unity that enables developers to accept payments directly within their application.  From the press release: “We are very excited to release our Unity Integration to allow gamers to make in-game purchases in their local currency, and in their most preferred payment method,” said Jevin […]

  If I am completely honest up front, right from the very beginning the HTC Vive was an also ran to me.  The Samsung GearVR was first to market, while the Oculus Rift certainly had the brand recognition and the majority of the press.  Suddenly however with the pre-orders of the Oculus Rift, most of […]

  Special thanks to @Dillybob on Twitter for bringing this engine to my attention.  QICI Engine is a HTML5 game engine and toolset layered over top of Pixi and Phaser, a library I am a huge fan of.  The engine is well documented and completely free.  The source is available although oddly enough the Github […]

  Tiled, the popular open source level editor, just released version 0.15.0.   From the release notes: Those who remember the Tiled 0.14 release announcement may remember that I wanted the next release to be Tiled 1.0. We’re not entirely there yet, but Tiled took a big step towards being more functionally complete. The most […]

  The event many people have been waiting for… the ability to order an Oculus Rift of your own has now arrive.  You can now pre-order an Oculus Rift today by clicking here.   So, the news everyone is waiting for… how much exactly is the Rift going to cost?   GULP!   $600???  Wow…  […]

  Another Unity 5.3 patch was released today.   From the release notes: Fixes (750357) – iOS: Added font containing Lao characters to the fallback list. (none) – iOS: Don’t enable bitcode by default for Mono. (none) – OpenGL core: Fixed a crash with AMD and NVIDIA on Windows when using RenderTexture with recent drivers. […]