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Last month, the no-code required 3D game engine BuildBox made some frankly insane pricing announcements. Backlash from customers and competitors was swift and brutal. Today, BuildBox CEO Jonathan Zweig announced their response to the backlash including much more… sane pricing terms. Details from the announcement: You spoke, we listened, and […]
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Godot web publishing service gotm.io, previously covered on GFS here are moving into publishing with an innovative offer for Godot engine developers. In addition to publishing Godot games to their online portal, you can now apply to be published to the Nintendo Switch with gotm.io taking care of the porting,
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Stack Overflow is one of the most valuable repositories of technical knowledge on the web today and now we know the exact value of that knowledge, $1.8B! Stack Overflow was just acquired by Prosus, a large technology investor that already owns such brands as Udemy, CodeAcademy and AutoTrader. Details of
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BuildBox is a code-less 3D game engine we reviewed back in 2020 after they changed their pricing to be more accessible to the masses. Today, they took a MASSIVE step backwards with some simply insane changes to their pricing. In short, they have changed their pricing to have a 70/30
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The Game Developer Conference (GDC) showcase is on right now. GDC normally takes place this time of year but Covid has been a disruption, result in an online conference that has been split into two parts. The Game Developer Conference Showcase runs from Today, March 15th thru Friday March 19th
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Epic Games, the makers of the popular Unreal Engine, have just acquired another company, Capturing Reality. Capturing Reality are the makers of the photogrammetry software Reality Capture, that enables developers to create high detail 3D models from photographs. Just like their previous acquisition of texturing company Quixel, Epic Games immediately
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Unity Technologies have just released their Game Development in 2021 Report. This 35 page PDF (direct download link) is a gold mine of information taken from various different Unity platforms and products, as well as the result of Unity developer surveys. The information is obviously going to skew heavily toward
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The open source Godot game engine just announced they are the recipient of a $120,000 USD development grant from the game development company Kefir. Kefir is a game development firm based out of Russia responsible for survival mobile titles Last Day on Earth and Grim Soul. There seem to be
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Earlier this week the New York Times reported that JetBrains were under FBI investigation in the SolarWinds probe. JetBrains have responded.
JetBrains Respond To New York Times SolarWinds Story Read More
Epic Games have acquired Rad Game Tools, the makers of game development software such as Bink, Oodle, Telemetry and Miles Sound System.
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