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MonoGame, the popular cross platform spin-off the now dead XNA framework has just released version 3.3. For the official release notes: This is a short summary of all the changes in this release: Support for vertex texture fetch on Windows. New modern classes for KeyboardInput and MessageBox. Added more validation to draw […]
MonoGame 3.3 released Read More
This post popped up on reddit a few days back and didn’t really get a ton of interest. I almost missed it myself, but I am glad I didn’t. Off and on the last couple days, I’ve been playing around with BDX and I have to say, there is the kernel of something really […]
Create a 3D game in Blender using LibGDX and BDX Read More
I’ve long been a fan of the Phaser HTML5 game library, as my ongoing tutorial series might indicate. Somewhat recently Phaser started adding premium commercial plugins. The most recently added plugin adds support for Box2D, the popular 2D physics based library. This is a commercial plugin (aka, you’ve got to pay for it. $65 […]
Phaser HTML5 game library adds Box2D support via commercial plugin Read More
I absolutely LOVE version 1.0 releases. Yeah, it’s just a number but it’s a critical number. One that says “this is no longer just a toy and we are ready to stand behind it!”. It’s not really the product that changes, but the attitude attached to it. Well, RoboVM just hit that critical […]
Copperlicht, a somewhat recently open sourced WebGL game engine has just released version 1.9. Release notes are, shall we say… terse. Here they are in the entirity from the Copperlicht forums. Hi, CopperLicht 1.9 is now available for download. Get it here: http://www.ambiera.com/copperlic… Added support for realtime reflecting water surfaces, rendering to […]
Copperlicht 1.9 released Read More
Allegorithmic, makers of the popular Substance 3D painting suite among other products have just announced an excellent new way to purchase their products. They announced a new program, Substance Live, details below were taken from this forum posting: Basically, like many other packages, you can now subscribe to Substance Designer/Painter for a […]
Allegorithmic release tools under awesome new rent to own license Read More
With GDC on, after Unreal’s announcement I think this will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody… Unity 5 is here and it now has a new, more indie-friendly license. Here is the release from their blog: Unity 5 is here. For everyone. Today is the big day. We’re launching Unity 5 globally. […]
Unity 5 released with a new (and awesome) pricing model Read More
Gotta just love GDC eh? Hot on the heals of Unreal Engine getting rid of it’s subscription fee, we now learn the Corona, a popular cross platform Lua based mobile game engine, has gone free. Of course there is still a subscription tier, that’s how they make money, but you get a great deal more […]
Corona SDK is now free and includes Windows and Mac OS/X Support Read More
Ok, just received the following email and wow, it’s a good one: If you love something, set it free! It’s been an amazing year for Unreal Engine 4. We’ve grown a lot, we’ve learned a lot, and with your help and feedback, made the engine easier to use and […]
Unreal Engine now completely free! Read More
Along with the Maya LT release Autodesk also teased a bit about their upcoming game engine Stingray. You may recall sometime back that Autodesk acquired a company called Bitsquid that were working on a light weight, cross platform C++ game engine. However since that announcement we have heard absolutely nothing. Considering their importance to the […]