This press release just arrived from Autodesk:   Autodesk Maya LT 2015 to Launch on Steam   Today Autodesk announced that Maya LT 2015 is coming to Steam, Valve’s popular entertainment platform. Maya LT brings its powerful animation and modeling feature set to Steam’s active community of over 65 million gamers, developers and artists […]

  Somehow missed this announcement in the chaos of the last few weeks.  It was only via this comment I became aware of the release.  Anyways Havok have released a pretty massive update to Project Anarchy, their free for mobile, cross platform gaming engine.  The star of the release is integration of Autodesk BEAST lighting […]

  Unreal shook the indie game developer world up recently when they announced they made Unreal Engine 4, with complete source code, available for $19/month as well as a 5% royalty.  I assume some of you are wondering what your 20 bucks a month gets you.  Well this post is intended as an overview of […]

  One of the vaunted features of Unreal Engine 4 is C++ support.  How exactly does that work?  First you need to have an external IDE installed, either Visual C++ on Windows or XCode on Mac.  The Express version will work but the helper toolbar is unavailable.  It’s mostly just a shortcut so it’s not […]

  When it comes to programming languages, I literally use dozens, but when it comes down to an all other things being equal decision my go to language of choice tends to be C#.  One of the big plus sides of C# is the wonderful LINQ ( Language Integrated Query ).  LINQ makes heavy use […]

The move to Gradle has been for the most part a positive experience for me, except when it comes to IntelliJ on Mac OS.  There I ran into a few problems and figured I would share the troubleshooting I took.  Fortunately there was a happy ending for me.   The main problem I had was […]

Well, technically make that LÖVE, I don’t believe umlauts and URLs mix well.   Anyways, LÖVE 0.9.1 was released today.  LÖVE is an easy to use Lua game library I featured in my Lua Game Engine Roundup a couple years back.  Details of this release are:   0.9.1’s API is fully backward compatible with existing 0.9.0 games. Most […]

  Wow, I gotta say this announcement pretty much broadsided me.  I wrote Moai off for dead, which was a huge shame, as I did a tutorial series on the subject, and frankly found MOAI to be some of the cleanest C++ code I had ever read.  So to hear of a new release certainly […]

  Ongoing documentation of creating a 3D mech asset.  Previously we ended with the torso and upper leg, like so:     Since then, I’ve rotated the upper leg back, created a foot and lower leg:   Current face count is at 527, but there is a hell of a lot of optimizing that could […]

  I am a big fan of LibGDX and a big hater of Eclipse.  This always put me in a bit of an awkward situation, as in order to use LibGDX you basically had to use Eclipse, at least if you wanted cross platform support.  You could get IntelliJ to work, but it required a […]