GDevelop Game Engine Revisted
The open source cross platform 2D game engine GDevelop 5 has seen several dozen improvements recently. Today we are going to revisit this engine and look at some of those improvements.
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NeoAxis 2020.8 Released
The NeoAxis Engine, which was recently open sourced, just released version 2020.8. The key new feature of this release is a new streamlined education version with a streamlined and easier to learn user interface. There were a variety of other improvements including: Transform tool has been improved. Move & Rotate …
Babylon.JS 4.2 Game Engine Released
Babylon.js, the open source 3D web based game engine, just released version 4.2 with a ton of new features and tools. Key features of the 4.2 release include: New particle editor for direct creation of particle systems in the Inspector new Sprite Editor built into the Inspector to create, control …
The Machinery Game Engine Enters Open Beta
The Machinery by Our Machinery is an in development professional game engine that just entered open beta. We went hands-on with The Machinery earlier in the year when it was still in closed beta if you want an in-depth but slightly out of date hands-on experience. With the move to …
001 Game Creator Humble Bundle
The 001 Game Creator game engine is currently featured in the Game Dev STEM Humble Bundle that just launched. 001 Game Creator was previously featured in a Humble, so be sure to check your library to make sure you aren’t purchasing it twice. If you are interested in learning more …
microStudio Game Engine Hands-On
microStudio is a game engine that runs entirely in your browser and makes it incredibly easy to get started creating 2D games, with a polished, well designed, comprehensive and documented set of tools. You can start as easily as going to microStudio.dev in your browser, clone an existing or create …
Drag[en]gine Hands-On
The Drag[en]gine is a highly modular, open source (C++) game engine that has been under active development for several years. The Drag[en]gine’s modular approach is built around the GLEM concept breaking your game project into the Game Script, Launcher, Engine and Modules layers. The Game Script is implemented by default …
Cocos Creator 3.0 Tech Preview Released
The free Cocos Creator game engine just got a heavy duty upgrade today, with the release of Cocos Creator 3D technical preview. This release adds an all new 3D game engine to Cocos Creator, which was previously a 2D only game engine. The new underlying 3D engine has a complete …
Oculus Quest 2 Game Development Options
October 13th is the official launch date of the Oculus Quest 2, and with millions of Quests now in gamer’s hands, some are no doubt going to want to figure you how to develop games for them. This is a quick overview of the various different technical options and tools …
Game Development in the Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language developed and supported by Google, by a who’s who of computer language designers. It is often used in large scale server projects at companies such as Google, Dropbox, Paypal, Twitch and Netflix. Today we are going to look at the game development frameworks …