Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Game Development News, Tutorials and More
The Wick Editor is a surprisingly capable free and open source tool that defies categorisation. At it’s core it’s a 2D graphic and animation tool, but it also has programmability features making it capable of creating simple games. It supports publishing animated GIFs, movies, soundtracks, sprite sequences and even single …
PyGame is a popular 2D game framework for the Python programming language available at https://www.pygame.org/. PyGame has been under active development since the year 2000 and continues to see updates to this day. Today we are going to look at the basics of getting up and running with PyGame. First …
Tilesetter is a cross platform (Windows, Linux and Mac) tool for generating tiles and tile based maps that can easily be exported to game engines including Unity, Godot, Defold and GameMaker 2. The biggest power of Tilesetter is it makes it incredibly easy to create auto-tile tilesets such as Wang tiles.
YoYo Games have just released an update to their seminal game engine, GameMaker Studio 2. The 2.3.0 release brings a ton of new features we explore in-depth.
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 […]
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 […]
PICO-8 is perhaps the most popular of the fantasy consoles and if you are extremely quick, you can pick it up as part of the Itch.io Racial Justice bundle along with a ton of other development tools and indie games. PICO-8 is described as:PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games […]
DragonRuby is a game development framework powered by the Ruby programming language. It is lightweight and crossplatform with an easy to learn API. It is regularly $47USD, however it is currently included in the Bundle For Racial Justice currently running on Itch.io, along with hundreds of games for just $5.Key features of DragonRuby include:Dirt simple […]
Optikon is a free Windows based ( Mac and Linux can run via Wine ) level editor that takes a WYSIWYG approach to creating game levels using the Lua powered Love game framework.Details of Optikon from the website:Drag and Drop Level DesignOptikon is a simple drag-and-drop level designer which makes stunning 2D level design in […]
ENVE, or Enve is Not a Video Editor, is a new in development 2D animation software, completely free and open source. Even in this early state, Enve is remarkably capable animation tool, with a full suite of drawing tools for both vector and result art, including MyPaint brush integration.ENVE is described as:Enve is a new […]
