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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 […]
At GDC this week, Autodesk is announcing the release of Maya LT 2016. Maya LT is a stripped down version of Maya aimed at the indie game market. It also comes with a massively stripped down price tag and a monthly subscription option. When Maya LT was first announced it had a number of glaring limitations. […]
Maya LT 2016 announced Read More
In this tutorial, we look at animating sprites using the Animation class. We look at loading sprites two different ways. First creates them by splitting up a Texture loaded into memory. The second example uses a texture atlas. As always the code is provide below. You can watch the video in HD here. […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial: Sprite Animation Read More
Unreal Engine 4.7 was released today and boy was it a good one. In their words: Unreal Engine 4.7 is our biggest release yet, with the power to render huge numbers of instanced objects in large worlds, beautiful rendering of leaves and foliage, HDR texture support, in-editor animation editing, along with hundreds of optimizations and improvements. […]
Unreal Engine 4.7 released today Read More
This tutorial is available as an HD video here. In this tutorial we are going to look at the UI aspects of the Godot game engine. If you have prior experience with other game engines, you will probably be shocked by the number of UI widgets and containers that ship with Godot. While […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 5–GUI Programming. Using Controls, Widgets and Containers Read More
In their ongoing quest to take over the development world, Unreal have announced something really cool… 5 million dollars in grants to Unreal Developers! Each project can receive between $5,000 and $50,000. To be eligible you must have a working prototype. So, what’s the catch? None. Really… nothing. Although […]
Unreal giving away $5 million in grants to Unreal Engine developers Read More
LÖVE, a Lua based game engine I covered wayyyyy back in Battle of the Lua Game Engines and also featured in the game development for kids article, just announced release 0.9.2 just in time for Valentines day. The announcement follows: Here are a few big changes and highlights, and the full changelog, as […]
LÖVE Lua game engine release version 0.9.2 Read More