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Announced a few weeks back at CppNorth developer conference in Toronto, Carbon is a new programming language being primarily developed by Google developers. The goal of Carbon is to provide a successor language to C++, by offering a modern more developer friendly language but also offering bi-directional support for C++, …
We first looked at the Orx data-driven C/C++ based game development framework all the way back in 2018. Today we revisit this unique framework, following the recent release of 1.13 with the following features: 70+ updates or new features Added a new SoundSystem plugin based on MiniAudio: All platforms now …
Today we are revisiting WickedEngine, an incredibly capable open source C++ based game engine we first visited way back in 2019. Wicked Engine is the technology powering the recently released GameGuru MAX game engine which we recently covered in this video. Since we initially WickedEngine a ton of new features …
The open source C based cross platform game library/framework raylib just released version 4. This is the first major update since the 3.7 release in April, raylib 4 is a major update and should be considered a LTS or Long Term Stable release. One of the great things about raylib …
For developers working with Android targets, but prefer not to work with Java or that would rather work in Visual Studio have reason to rejoice. The Android team have just released the Android Game Development Kit, a collection of extensions, libraries and tools to make developing Android Games easier, especially …
Ultra App Kit was first released in April earlier this year and it provided a light weight C++ framework for creating GUI applications, specifically game development tools. There was one massive problem with that release… it was Windows only. With the release of Ultra App Kit 1.1, Linux and MacOS …
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In C++ the standard libraries have basically no media related functionality and the mature C++ SDK Cinder steps in to fill that gap. If there is an input, audio or visual based functionality you need in your C++ application, there is a very good chance it is in the Cinder …
Ultra App Kit was just released by the creator of the Leadwerks game engine. Ultra App Kit is a C++ based SDK for creating GUI applications for high performance game development tools. Similar in scope to Dear ImGui, the major difference is that UAK is a retained mode framework. This …
The Flax game engine was first launched the end of 2020 and today we have the first major follow-up release, Flax Engine 1.1. Flax is a source available cross platform 3D game engine with a great deal of potential. Details of the Flax Engine 1.1 release from their blog: We’ve …
Rootex is an open source C++ based game engine. Rootex is available under the MIT open source license on GitHub. The engine is Windows only, using DirectX 11, and is implemented as an Entity Component System. Scripting is done using the Lua programming language, and is described in the online …
