Just got this email from Unreal and damn is it cool!   Infinity Blade Collection As our gift to developers, you can now download thousands of assets from the Infinity Blade universe for free in the Unreal Engine Marketplace!Three impressive dungeon environments, two massive character packs, many sound and visual effects, and a host of […]

  Ok, I’ll admit, I’m a day and a half late on this tidbit of news, which by internet standards might as well be years!  Regardless, it’s important enough to report late…   Unity announced the released of version 5.2 available immediately.  The release included: Boost your revenue with Unity Ads Unity Ads is growing […]

  Over the past couple months I have been working on a series of posts covering MonoGame with the intention of compiling them into an e-book when finished.  There have been a few preview builds of the book available to Patreon supporters (thanks by the way!).  Now however I consider the series to be complete […]

  While on vacation I have been looking at the process of extending the Godot Game engine using C++.  Due to the vacation, this isn’t a proper tutorial, I may do one later on when I have access to video, etc…  There is pretty solid documentation of the process in this post on the Godot […]

  Today Unreal announced the release of version 4.9 of the popular Unreal Engine.   Unreal always have fairly massive release notes, so here is the short hand version: Enhanced Support for Mobile Devices Dynamic Character Shadows for Mobile Dynamic Point Lights for Mobile Decals on Mobile Major VR Updates New VR Motion Controller Support […]

  In this Closer Look At we look at take a look at the jMonkeyEngine.  The Closer Look At game engine series is a cross between an overview, a review and a getting started tutorial to help you decide if a game engine is the right fit for you.  The jMonkeyEngine engine is a Java […]

  Hello All,   Just a quick note on what’s coming up at GameFromScratch.com.  First up, the end of summer is fast approaching and I think it’s time for a road trip vacation.  Last year I took a similar trip and it rained every single day, so this year I’ve learned from my mistake and […]

  … in beta form, that is.  It was announced a while back that Unity was working on a Linux version of their editor.  It appears it has finally arrived, according to this blog post, replicated below:   Hello again, lovely people! Last month, I wrote a blog post detailing our plans for Unity on […]

  I’m about to date myself brutally with this post (hint… I’m old… much older than this book, which is also old ), however when I stumbled upon this book it stirred a bit of my childhood in a way that no Michael Bay butchered film can even attempt.  You see my first home computer […]