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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty #2 Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle is a collection of low polygon asset packs from Synty Studios. While many of these assets have been featured in previous Humble Bundles, there are 4 completely new to […]
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The Godot game engine removed it’s built-in Visual Scripting language with the release of Godot 4.0. Thanks however to the extensive (pun intended) extension system GDExtensions, it is possible for a tightly integrated replacement to be created. That is exactly what Orchestrator is, a drop in GDExtension based Visual Scripting
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One of the strong points of the Godot Game engine is it’s use to develop non gaming applications. In the video below we run through 15 non-gaming applications that were developed using the Godot game engine. The applications are: The Godot Editor Material Maker [Learn More] Pixelorama [Learn More] RPG
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It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for February 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and February is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets,
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Earlier this week we discussed the excellent Phantom Camera Add-on for the Godot game engine. One of the nicest features of this add-on was the optional camera preview window, something I commented about being missing from Godot. In a quirk of timing a new add-on was released that adds exactly
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Phantom Camera is an awesome add-on for the Godot 4.x game engine that attempts to bring Unity’s Cinemachine style camera capabilities to the 2D and 3D cameras in Godot. The newest release of the camera does however require the newest release of Godot, with Godot 4.2x+ being required from version
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Are you interest in game development but what to use an entirely open source set of tools? In that case you are in luck as in this guide we list the best open source (not source available like Unreal, fully OSI compliant open source) game engines, graphics and audio tools
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Texture Paint Champ is a free tool that gives you the ability to paint directly on a 3D model, Substance Painter style, directly inside Unreal Engine 5. Details from the GumRoad page: In addition to Texture Paint Champ, the author also makes Decal Champ for Unreal Engine, which is also
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If you are looking to create a game but perhaps want to craft your own game engine from existing technologies, or you prefer to work at a lower more code focused level, using a game framework instead of a game engine may be right for you. Today we look at
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Now that Unity have seemingly settled on a new pricing structure it is time to look at the pricing differences between Unreal Engine and Unity. We will run through 5 different scenarios describing game development studios of different sizes. First a quick overview of pricing structures. For game development projects
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