Ok, this one is a bit off the topic of game development, but I figured I would share it here for other people struggling with slow renders in Camtasia.  I use Camtasia Studio for all of the video tutorials here on GameFromScratch and while I enjoy the program, rendering speeds vary between awful and […]

  We recently covered getting started in GearVR development using Samsung’s GearVRf library and the Unity Engine.  Today we are going to finish it off with coverage of getting started using the Unreal Engine.  As with the Unity tutorial, although this is focused on the GearVR, most of the instruction should be equally valid for […]

  Earlier we look at getting started doing Gear VR development using Samsung’s GearVRf library.  In that tutorial I mentioned a few times that it is a great deal easier to get started doing Gear VR development using the Unity game engine.  Today we are going to look at the process of getting a game […]

  This is a tutorial on getting started with Samsung’s GearVRf framework with the Samsung Gear VR.  The GearVR is a virtual reality headset powered by Oculus Rift technology and a modern Samsung android phone.  The GearVRf SDK is a framework made available by Samsung enabling you to develop for the GearVR using Java.  If […]

  I covered this briefly in another tutorial but I’ve noticed enough people searching for it, I decided it deserved a post of it’s own.  The GearVR software has a special developer mode that enables you to run GearVR applications without being inserted in a GearVR headset.  This tutorial shows the process of enabling developer […]

  PlayCanvas, a popular 3D HTML5 game engine have added support for Spine the 2D bone based animation software from Esoteric Software.   You can get the plugin from Github, details from the announcement: This is the first version of PlayCanvas plugin for the Spine Animation tool. Spine allows you to create bone-driven 2D animations […]

  I was recently working with a tool that exported it’s level data as a directory full of obj files, literally hundreds of them.  You can import them into Blender using File->Import->Obj, unfortunately there is no way to do a select all.  Apparently in Blender 2.4x if you held SHIFT while selecting OBJ import, it […]

  A reader wrote in to share this bundle currently running on BundleStars, and I am glad they did.  Somewhat similar to a humble indie bundle from a few months back but containing a great deal more art assets.  I’ve actually used the tilesets from the earlier humble bundle several times here on GFS, so […]

  When I set up the news monitoring on GameFromScratch.com I noticed that Ogre3D hadn’t had an update since June and was somewhat concerned that the project was dying off.  Thankfully today there were signs of life over at ogre3d.org.  If you have never heard of it, Ogre3D is a C++ based renderer and scene […]

  GarageGames have just released Torque2D version 3.2.  Torque2D is 2D game engine built over the Torque 3D engine, which is now open source and MIT licensed. From the release: While you were singing carols door to door and sipping eggnog by the fireplace, the T2D Steering Committee was hard at work wrapping up one […]