Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Game Development News, Tutorials and More
MB-Labs is the open source successor to Manuel Bastioni Labs, which was sadly abandoneed by it’s creator. The team behind MB-Lab have done an excellent job of picking up development of this powerful open source Blender powered character creator. MB-Lab 1.7.8 is available for download with complete release notes right …
Cascadeur is a unique physics based animation system for Linux and Windows (Mac coming soon) that just released into Open Beta. Details of the first Cascadeur beta release: New core architectureThe progress from the CBT to the OBT version may appear subtle on the outside, but on the inside the entire core …
001 G001 Game Creator is a storied game 2D and 3D game engine for Windows that is currently featured in the Game Creator Humble Bundle. In this video we go hands-on with the game engine and see if it might be a good choice for you. If you are still undecided on 001 Game Creator […]
Tiletkit is a new tile based map editor available for Windows and Linux. The key feature of Tilekit is a rules based pattern driven map editing, define your tiles and rules and the map editor takes care of the rest.Features:Unique pattern-based-rule autotiling system Map export to JSON Code-export of final ruleset to C or Lua […]
Included in the currently running Humble Game Creator Bundle, today we go hands-on with Pixelmash, a pixel art graphics application for Windows and Mac OS. Pixelmash is described as:A New, Easier Way To Make Pixel Art and Animated Sprites Pixelmash is a new kind of pixel art and animation tool that makes quick work of […]
Today we are checking out FamiStudio, a lighter weight alternative to programs like FamiTracker, that make it easy to create 8bit style musical scores. Features of FamiStudio include:Modern DAW-style UI with sequencer and piano roll, no hexadecimal anywhere Instrument & Envelope edition NSF import Full Undo/Redo support Copy & Paste support Note drag & drop […]
Dust3D is an open source 3D modeling application we first looked at back in April of 2018. Since that time Dust has improved a great deal, including winning a Epic MegaGrant award. Dust3D is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and is open source on GitHub under the MIT open source library. Key features of […]
Sprytile is a free tile map editor that runs entirely inside Blender, similar in functionality to the recently covered Crocotile 3D. Over the weekend, Sprytile for the most current Blender 2.8x versions was just released. Details from the Sprytile Itch.io page:Sorry for the long long long delay, but finally the official release of Sprytile for […]
Flax Engine, an in development closed beta game engine, we first covered in August of 2018, just announced the release of version 0.7 beta. This is one of the final closed beta releases as the close in on a full 1.0 release and there are some major new features available.Details from the Flax Engine blog:Today […]
Allegorithmic (now Adobe) are well known for their excellent Substance Designer and Painter texturing tools have recently released a major update for Alchemist, their Quixel Mixer competitor. The biggest new feature to Alchemist is the AI driven Image to Material, an image importing option along side the existing B2M functionality. From the release notes, Image […]
