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Epic games just made a trio of announcements today that are going to be absolute game changers for the game development industry.Unreal Engine Free To Use Up To $1M Gross RevenueThis one is huge! Retroactive to January 1st, 2020, Unreal Engine has been changes so developers only pay royalties after their first MILLION dollars in […]
Unreal Engine 5 Announced–Free Under 1M Revenue Read More
Today Unity Technologies purchased the rights to the visual scripting solution Bolt 1 & 2 from Ludiq. The asset is already under the Unity name on the asset store and community and development efforts will be shift to Unity Montreal going forward.Details from the Ludiq blog:Ludiq is proud to announce that its flagship visual scripting […]
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Core, the game engine we covered just yesterday, have teamed up with designer American McGee to launch a new Alice in Wonderland themed contest Through the Looking Glass.What beauty or horrors await Alice in her adventures? This is the question you must answer as you create a game-ready environment to fit this theme. We have […]
Core And American McGee Launch Art Contest Read More
In the aftermath of Microsoft purchasing GitHub there have been several changes for the better with the popular code repository. The first major update was creation of a free tier with unlimited private repositories, with the limit of 3 users per private repo. Today, that limitation has been removed, officially making all major GitHub features […]
GitHub Free For Teams Read More
Back in 2016 I did my first guide to Choosing a Game Development Laptop, then did a follow up edition the beginning of 2018. A fair bit has changed since then, so here is the 2019 edition. There is a video version of this guide embedded below. What has changed? If you read […]
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EDIT – 2019 Version is now live and AVAILABLE HERE.Back in 2015 I found myself in the market for a new laptop for game development and I put together this guide on how to chose a laptop ideally suited for game development. Fast forward to today and it’s time to choose another, so I’ve decided […]
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Yesterday we reported the news that Unity was removing Enlighten from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little sense:Due to Geomerics shutting down Enlighten as a product, Unity is required to remove Enlighten.Geomerics hasn’t operated Enlighten since 2017 when it was […]
Did Unity Lie About Enlighten’s Removal? Read More
With GDC on, after Unreal’s announcement I think this will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody… Unity 5 is here and it now has a new, more indie-friendly license. Here is the release from their blog: Unity 5 is here. For everyone. Today is the big day. We’re launching Unity 5 globally. […]
Unity 5 released with a new (and awesome) pricing model Read More
