One of the major weak points for Blender, especially for game developers, is it’s FBX support.  You see, Blender is GPL licensed, which among other things means it can’t link to closed source libraries.  On the other hand, FBX is pretty much the industry standard interchange format these days, but it’s owned by Autodesk.  […]

  RoboVM, the technology the enables you to deploy Java based games and applications on iOS just released version 1.12.  The major features of this release are support for iOS 9.2 as well as experemental support for Apple’s new tvOS.  From the announcement:   iOS 9.2 Support In the meantime, Apple also released iOS 9.2, […]

  Today Ludei released a new version of their game focused HTML5 app wrapper Cocoon, now called Cocoon.io and based on Cordova.  I was beginning to think Cocoon was no more, so it is nice to see a new release.   From the announcement: Cocoon.io has been designed from the ground up to try to […]

  Back in October I had the following Twitter conversation with Nat Friedman of Xamarin.   It appears that this process has begun, at least for a limited time and for published developers.  From this announcement at Xamarin: Christmas comes early for indie game developers Because we love seeing indie games succeed, Xamarin wants to […]

  Via BlenderNation a great collection of Blender materials came to my attention and I figured I would share.  Blender user Mackraken is a bit of a hoarder of materials and this certainly works to our advantage!  He has made a complete collection of shaders available for our use, all nicely organized using matlib.   […]

  Over the years there have been many tutorial series here on GameFromScratch, many of them aimed at beginning game developers.  What there has never been is a series for complete beginners.  Every single programming tutorial I have ever written has assumed prior programming experience.  Today I am launching a new series that will change […]

  GDX AI, a Java based AI library that works with (but doesn’t require) LibGDX just released version 1.7.   From the change log: [1.7.0] – Updated to libgdx 1.7.1 – API Addition: added GdxAI service locator that reduces coupling with libgdx and allows you to use gdx-ai out of a libgdx application without having […]

  On the heels of the recent acquisition of Corona by Perk, Corona just announced the private beta release of Corona Ads:   Only a few weeks have gone by since Corona Labs joined the Perk team and we already have some exciting news for developers. We are announcing the Beta for Corona Ads! Corona […]

  Don’t you just love it when someone else does your job for you?  As part of my recently completed Tiled tutorial series I was considering doing a pretty detailed tutorial on integrating it into one of the modern C# based game engines.  One engine certainly up for consideration was the Wave Engine, somewhat recently […]