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LDtk, or the Level Designer Toolkit, is a powered 2D world creation kit from the creator of Dead Cells. We looked at it in 2020 when it was first released as LEd, but today we are going to go hands-on and show you how this powerful tool can be used […]
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GodotShaders is a new portal for sharing and discussing shaders for the Godot game engine. At GodotShaders.com developers can share shaders (Spatial, Canvas and Particle) that are ready to use in the Godot game engine. There is also a section for Snippets in the Godot shading language. The GodotShaders site
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Checked C is a research project from Microsoft research that attempts to make the C programming language safer for developers. Checked C is implemented as a Clang compiler for Windows and Linux. It provides a series of extensions to the C programming language that make it safer to use pointers
It is time for the Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway for March 2021. Epic Games are offering up five assets that are yours free forever so long as you “purchase” them before the first Tuesday of next month. In addition to these five assets, there is one additional asset added to
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Monster Mash is a proof of concept web based tool for modelling and animating 3D models using a simple sketch based approach. It is based on the technique outlined in the paper Monster Mash: A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation that was presented in SIGGRAPH Asia 2020.
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Dem Bones is an open source animation skinning application from EA’s research division SEED. The source code is available on GitHub under the BSD3 open source license. Details from the EA news page: The state-of-the-art skinning decomposition solution was introduced in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 technical paper “Smooth Skinning Decomposition
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Today we are taking an early look at currently in beta Unreal Engine resource service Unreal Bucket. Unreal Bucket is a collection of 3D model assets that are ready to use in Unreal Engine, sometimes preconfigured with dynamic Blueprints, other times with predefined Unreal materials that can be easily customized.
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Unity Technologies have just released their Game Development in 2021 Report. This 35 page PDF (direct download link) is a gold mine of information taken from various different Unity platforms and products, as well as the result of Unity developer surveys. The information is obviously going to skew heavily toward
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The folks over at Fanatical are running a bundle of interest to game developers, the Mega Music Collection Royalty Free bundle. This bundle is a collection of royalty free music tracks, often in looping format, encoded as WAV ready for use in creating soundtracks or to be dropped directly into
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Following hot on the heels of this month’s Unreal Marketplace giveaway as well as the release of the Medieval Environment tutorial, Epic games have released assets from The City of Brass and The Vagrant for Unreal Engine users. Since these are direct releases from Epic, they are only usable in
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