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The currently free animation tool Cascadeur (previously covered in more detail here) for Windows and Linux, just released a new beta update, Cascadeur 2020.2. Key new features of the 2020.2b release include: Quick Rigging tool for humanoid models – you can now create a simple humanoid rig much faster and […]
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LEd is a new open source level editor written in the Haxe language by a developer at Motion Twin, using lessons learned creating games such as Dead Cells. LEd is designed to be user friendly and from my experiences it succeeds. Key details of LEd: Easy to use: modern UI
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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
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ZRythm is a DAW, or digital audio workstation, that just officially hit the critical 1.0 alpha release. With the alpha moniker you can of course expect some crashes and incomplete features. ZRythm is open source under the AGPL license with the source code hosted on GitHub. ZRythm works on Windows,
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Gestaltor is a powerful tool for dealing with glTF files. In addition to being able to view and debug glTF files, GESTALTOR also enables you to edit or even create 3D scenes. Details from the Gestaltor homepage: Gestaltor is the first visual glTF editor which allows you to natively work with the format
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Mixamo Character Animation Combiner is a powerful tool for combining animations and characters from Adobe’s Mixamo and exporting the results in GLTF or GLB formats in just a matter of seconds. The results are game ready and can immediately be imported into the 3D tool or game engine (I used
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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.
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Asset Forge is a powerful kitbashing 3D modelling tool from Kenney of Kenney.nl fame. We looked at it in-depth back in April when Asset Forge 2.0 was released. Today we are revisiting Asset Forge today because Asset Forge 2.1 was released and is finally available on Mac and Linux as
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Neobarok is a one of a kind completely free 3D modeling application for Windows, Mac and Linux that we previously covered in early 2019. Since then, there have been a fair number of changes and improvements to Neobarok
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Your Sound. Your Video Professional Audio and Video Production bundle, a collection of software from MAGIX. This bundle is exceptionally straight forward, containing just a handful of programs, with all of the value packed into the top tier.
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