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The following is a quick round-up of freely available applications for 3D game development available in 2023. This includes modelling, sculpting, texturing and animating applications. If we have featured the application in the past, there will be a link to the right of it in the list below. This time …
Best Free 3D Graphics Applications for GameDev in 2023 Read More
It would appear that Mixamo has a new competitor in the auto-rigging game, accuRIG from Reallusion (makers of Character Creator and iClone). It is a free download, available for Windows only, that is completely free, although an account is required to download. You can then import your own 3D model …
The 10x Editor is a new (currently in beta) code editor for the C++ language. It is only available for Windows right now, with other platforms intended to come later, you can download it for free during the beta process. The entire mantra of C++ is performance and simplicity. It …
If you are looking for a streamlined but lightning quick alternative to Visual Studio Code, the in development Lapce editor may soon be perfect for you. It is currently very early in development, yet is already a very useable product. Lapce is written using the Rust language, is open source …
GB Studio 3 is an incredibly easy to use game engine for creating GameBoy style games (and actual Gameboy ROMS!) using an integrated set of tools and a visual scripting interface. We first looked at GB Studio back when it was released in 2019 and a lot has happened since. …
Material Maker is a powerful open source Substance Designer like application we’ve covered for a very long time that just hit a major milestone, the release of version 1.0! Built on top of the Open Source game engine, Material Maker evolved rapidly over the last 4 years, such as the …
After acquiring GitHub back in 2018, Microsoft became owner of two open source code editor projects, their own Visual Studio Code and GitHub’s Atom editor. Maintaining two competing projects didn’t make a ton of sense and recently the winner was announced, Visual Studio Code will live on, and Atom editor …
Microsoft Kill Off GitHub’s Atom Open Source Code Editor Read More
RiderFlow is a new free Unity extension by JetBrains, the creators of IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA and the game development focused Rider. RiderFlow is a free add-on for the Unity game engine available on the Asset Store. It provides several management for Unity developers including: 1. Search everything everywhereQuickly …
Light Brush is a free online application for digital painting. It works best on browsers based on the Chromium core (Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc). Features of Light Brush include: Free & Full (donations are appreciated, please) Custom Brushes Brush color blending, size linking, one brush mode, curve assist, stamp mode …
FamiStudio is a cross platform, free and open source application for creating old school Nintendo NES / Famicom style soundtracks. We first looked at FamiStudio back in 2020 but since then there have been several new features added including support for Android devices (where it is a free download). The …
