YoYo Games just announced their Black Friday Autumn sale, with GameMaker and most exporter plugins available at half price.  From the announcement: The leaves are falling and so our prices as we reveal our Autumn Sale! Get up to 50% off various GameMaker: Studio products and export modules! Check out our awesome Autumn savings […]

  With the upcoming LibGDX jam, it dawned on me I hadn’t done anything with LibGDX in a while.  I decided to look into doing a mini game series in advance of the Jam and decided it was a good opportunity for me to look into the Kotlin programming language.  Ironically a day later, RoboVM […]

  Phaser, the popular open source HTML5 game engine, are having a 50% off Black Friday sale (*cough* It’s Wednesday btw… *cough*) with all of their items half price.  I’m a huge fan of Phaser, in fact did a complete tutorial series on using it, so love to see them get the support they deserve.  […]

  This one has to be about the most ironic timing of a contest ever, as just last night I started working with Kotlin and IntelliJ (expect a post later today)… anyways, on to the competition.  The nutshell version, you create a Kotlin app using IntelliJ or Android Studio, submit it on Github and you […]

  I don’t often announce Kickstarter campaigns unless they are specifically about the creation of game development tools but for this one I am making an exception as this project looks high quality, is game developer focused and Krita itself deserves a great deal more exposure.  The campaign is called Create Professional 2D Game Art: […]

  Over on the Construct2 blog there is this announcement of a new free e-book Level Zero about programming games from scratch using Construct2.   This recently published book “Level 0” is a resource designed for the absolute beginner. You’ll learn how to set up characters and backgrounds, apply in-game mechanics and implement if – […]

  Unity have just released patch 4.6.9p3 for Unity 5.2.  From the patch http://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases: As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch. Improvements Android: Added support for Marshmallow runtime permissions. Changes Android: Audio – Disabled Fast Path for GearVR. Fixes (734408) – Android: Fixed OBB deployment […]

  It’s hard to believe that GIMP (General Image Manipulation Program) has now been around for 20 years.  To go along with the 20th anniversary, they also released version 2.8.16.  The following from the release announcement:   New Releases and The Future To celebrate the 20th anniversary, we released an update of the current stable […]

Today over 4000 documents from Infocom were released on archive.org as the Infocom cabinet.  This collection of documents contains reams of design information from many classic text adventures including: Planetfall Sorcerer The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy A Mind Forever Voyaging Leather Goddesses of Phobos Stationfall Zork Zero   From the blog post announcing the […]

  At the Android Developer Summit, Google just announced Android Studio 2.0 is available for download in preview form.  The two major new features will both be relevant for game developers, Instant Run which enables hot swapping of code on device and a GPU profiler, for profiling OpenGL ES code performance.   From the Android […]