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The Complete 2D Game Assets Humble Bundle is now available. This bundle contains a huge number of game assets for creating 2D games (RPG, top down, platformers, etc.) including tiles and tilemaps, character sprites, special effects as well as sound audio assets as well. The assets should work with any
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Toon Boom, the creators of the Toon Boom Harmony (and other) 2D animation packages have just announced a new product in beta format, Toon Boom Jump! Toon Boom Jump! takes the animation tools they are known for, but integrates the open-source Godot game engine. Toon Boom already offering a gaming
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As part of their holiday re-run Humble Bundle are re-running the best-selling game development bundles of 2024, today it’s the Game Creator Mega Bundle. This bundle contains a large collection of 2D game development assets that would be suitable for use in RPG Maker, Godot, Unity, GameMaker and many other
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The Gamedev Market: Best of 2024 Bundle is currently available on Humble Bundle. This is a collection of game ready 2D sprites, tiles, effects, sound effects and music for creating games. It is organized into the following tiers: 1$ Tier Enemy Sprites Pack 1 – Rogue AdventureCharacter Sprites Pack 1
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There are two new Humble Bundles of interest to game developers, the GameDev.tv GamesCom Unreal Flash Sale and the Game Creator Mega Bundle Humble Bundle. The first is a single tier of Unreal Engine courses by the excellent GameDev.tv, while the second is a large collection of mostly 2D RPG
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The Shape Engine is an interesting open source C# based 2D vector graphics game engine built on top of the excellent RayLib framework. Key Features of the Shape Engine include: Shape Engine is free and open source under the MIT license. Key Links Shape Engine GitHub Shape Engine on Itch.io
Due to recent events there are a number of Adobe users currently looking for alternatives. Today we look at several alternatives to the following Adobe products: Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance Painter/Designer, Animate and Premiere/After Effects. Without further ado, here are several alternatives to Adobe products in 2024: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
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In the move from Godot 3.x to Godot 4.x one of the few regressions was support for 2D tiled maps. Since the 4.0 release however, several features are being reintroduced to bring Godot up to parity with the older versions. In the upcoming release of Godot 4.3 (currently in Beta1)
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Today we are checking out Sprite Fusion, a free to use browser based Tilemap editor. Sprite Fusion has integrated export for Unity and Godot, as well as GB Studio, PNG and JSON. Key features of Sprite Fusion include: Key Links Sprite Fusion Homepage Discord Server Editor App Link Alternative 2D
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LDtk, or the Level Design Toolkit, is an open source 2D level editor from the director of Dead Cells. LDtk is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. LDtk 1.5 was just released with several new features and improvements: Key Links LDtk Homepage GitHub Repository You can learn more about LDtk
