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LDtk, the Level Designer Toolkit (previously known as LeD) is a free and open source map editor from one of the creators of Dead Cells. LDtk has received several improvements since we last looked at it, including the addition of MacOS support. Another new recent feature is the addition of …
The Unity just got an importer for the popular Aseprite pixel editor’s file format, ase. Aseprite is a long running and very popular sprite editing package (we first covered all the way in 2017). It is available for a relatively low price of $20, although it’s possible to get it …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the RPG Game Dev Asset bundle from GameDev Marketplace, as well as two game development related bundles over on Fanatical. As with all Humble Bundles, this one is organized into tiers, you buy a higher dollar value tier you …
OpenToonz is a free and open source animation software that has been in existence under a number of different names for almost 30 years. OpenToonz is battle tested in production environments including the infamous Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc.) and Rough Draft Studio (Futurama, etc.). OpenToonz was …
PixelOver is a interesting application, developed using the Godot Engine (like Material Maker, BitMap Flow and PixelORama), that enables you to quickly create pixel art from images. This is by no means the only tool to do this, another such example we covered in the past is PixelMash. That said, …
Last month, Flutter 2 was released, a big step forward adding desktop and web support to existing mobile support. With the far reaching support of Flutter it only makes sense to want to make games for the platform and that is where Flame enters the equation. Flame is described as …
Bitmapflow is a new, open source animation tool created in the Godot game engine, that is used to create new frames of animation from a sprite sequence. These “inbetween” frames are created using one of two algorithms, SimpleFLOW and DenseRLOF. Bitmapflow joins a growing list of tools, such as Pixelorama …
Tilengine is a C99 based open source game engine/framework for creating retro or classic style games, such as those from the SNES or Genesis era. We first covered Tilengine way back in 2017 then again in 2018 when it was open sourced. In the 2 1/2 years since we lasted …
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 …
The Defold game engine and Rive 2D vector based animation application have announced a partnership. Rive may be a new name to you as it was previously known as Nima and Flare, the two products were merged as Rive. The partnership between Defold and Rive is going to bring the …
