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 […]

  Blend4Web have launched a Christmas/New Year themed contest with a $1000 prize pool.  Full details follow: Description We are happy to announce the first Blend4Web contest – a competition in creating interactive scenes for the Web! The theme is: X-Mas and New Year! The days when static images, video and Flash were enough to […]

  Microsoft Imagine just released a trio of coding kits aimed at teaching game programming concepts to kids using Visual Studio and Unity.  The kits include teaching slides as well as complete project files.  The three new kits are: Check out December’s exciting coding kits: Binary Break-In Crack the binary code, teach a safe the […]

  Following the recent release of Unreal Engine 4.10, Epic just released a hotfix.  From the announcement: Fixed! UE-23364 Make sure that Perforce integration works with SSL connections when compiled with VS2015Fixed! UE-21181 [CrashReport] Object from PIE level still referenced. (via FWorldContext in UEngine::AddReferencedObjects?)Fixed! UE-23371 [CrashReport] UE4Editor_GraphEditor!FNodeFactory::CreateNodeWidget() nodefactory.cpp:91Fixed! UE-23372 [CrashReport] Indexing Blueprints for FiB data […]

  This tutorial came about as a result of a question on my YouTube channel, although it is one of those things that you are going to need to know before long in 3D game programming, so I have made the answer part of the official Godot Engine tutorial series.  The question was: I am […]

  Unity Technologies just released version 5.3 of their popular Unity game engine.  The biggest news of this release is probably that WebGL is no longer an experimental platform and is considered a fully supported target.  Apple TV support is also coming soon, but as of right now it is in beta only.   The […]

  Last week I announced the Xamarin port of Urho3D to .NET and in the resulting /r/gamedev conversation it was discovered that the license it was released under required you to use Xamarin products.  This obviously caused a great deal of annoyance within the community.  Fortunately today Miguel de Icaza CTO at Xamarin announced that […]

  Today on the Xamarin blog, they announced the release of Urhosharp.  You may recall I covered Urho3D a while back in the Closer Look at Series.  From the announcement: Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as installing a single […]