As part of Google’s ongoing developer conference Fun Propulsion Labs, a Google team dedicated to gaming, released the open source game Zooshi to showcase a number of just announced or updated game technologies.  Zooshy is a 3D game that runs on Android, Android TV, Windows, OSX and Linux and is currently available for free […]

  The Goo game engine released the code under the MIT license, as announced here.  What is Goo?  It’s the underlying 3D engine that powers the Goo Create editor which enables you to create WebGL games without coding. The Goo Engine is the core of Goo Create. Our editor Goo Create would not work without […]

  Xamarin, the popular cross platform .NET toolchain just released version4.  From the announcement: Xamarin Platform – native, cross-platform apps Xamarin.Forms 2.0 Since releasing Xamarin.Forms last year, we’ve been amazed at how quickly developers have adopted it, accelerating their time-to-market for cross-platform native experiences across iOS, Android, and Windows, all while sharing over 90% of […]

  The Game Creators have just released version 1.1 of GameGuru.  This update focuses primarily on performance improvements.  Release details follow: GameGuru Update As regular followers of these GameGuru news updates will be aware, we’ve taken the last few months to focus almost solely on performance, converting the existing engine from our DarkBasicPro language (internal […]

  Microsoft is a different sort of company these days.  Starting back in 2014 they released the free community edition of Visual Studio.  Then in April of this year they launched the light weight and cross platform (and completely free) Visual Studio Code.  Today they announced the launch of Visual Studio Dev Essentials. So what […]

  I have noticed that there isn’t one good single source for game development news.  When a new game engine is announced or a new version of a critical tool, library or engine is released, there is no easy way to hear about it.  I hope to step in and fix this with GameFromScratch.  I […]

  A new patch has been released for Unity 5 with the following bug fixes and improvements: Improvements Added warning for NetworkIdentity on child game objects. Better error messages when network packets larger than MTU are generated by internal multiplayer systems. GI: Upgraded Enlighten to 2.22 UN20: An issue has been fixed where AMD Opteron […]

  Announced over at the Cocos2D-x blog today, they just released version 3.9 of the popular cross platform open source 2D based C++ framework.  The release is primarily for maintenance and stability but some new functionality was added as detailed on the forum:   3D Module: Added 3D MotionStreak to support streak effect. Refined Sprite3D […]

  Just published a new quick tutorial to YouTube on retopology in Blender.  Besides being a word that spell checkers despise, retopology is the art of creating a low resolution mesh by drawing over top of a higher resolution version.  This quick video tutorial shows the process in Blender using model snapping and the shrinkwrap […]

  We already have motion controls, audio control and of course tactile control, what about controlling a game with your emotions?  It sounds far fetched but it really isn’t, in fact it’s here today.  Just about every single modern gaming device has a front facing camera available in some form or another.  Well, Microsoft Research […]