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The Toy Engine was just released yesterday. The Toy Engine is a cross platform modular C++ open source game engine currently available under the GPL license. The engine is quite young so you should expect some instability and missing features. The developer @HugoAM has been very responsive to feedback and has announced that the license […]
Toy Engine–Thin C++ Game Engine Released Read More
When I started GameFromScratch, by far and away the most common question I got was “what programming language should I use?”. It’s amazing how much the world has changed in the last decade! These days game engines are by far more important than programming language to the majority of developers, and one game engine has […]
Why Not Just Use Unity? Read More
A brand new tutorial series just went live on devga.me (to join the existing Armory 3D series), the Cocos Creator Crash Course.The series currently consists of the following tutorial parts:Cocos Creator Tutorial Series homepageIntroduction and Getting StartedCreating a SpriteIntroduction to Cocos ScriptingDebuggingHandling InputSound and MusicAnimationThere are a few more tutorial chapters in active development. The […]
New Cocos Creator Tutorial Series Read More
With Apple’s recent unfortunate decision to deprecate OpenGL support in iOS and Mac OS moving forward this will be the end to the only graphics API that worked natively across all platforms. I think many developers would be willing to ignore the Mac OS market, but the iOS market is just too big for most […]
Cross Platform OpenGL Alternatives Read More
Last month we reported that Blender Game Engine (BGE) was being removed entirely from the source code of Blender for the upcoming major 2.8 release. Judging by the comments section this was certainly a polarizing decision, with replies basically falling into two camps. On one side there was a lot of “good riddance to bad […]
Blender Game Engine In Blender 2.8–Life After Death Read More
GameMaker is a seminal game engine, with roots dating back to the late 1990s. It is a cross platform 2D game engine with tools that run on Windows and Mac machines while capable of targeting both desktop operating systems as well as Ubuntu Linux, Android, iOS, UWP, HTML5, XBox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. GameMaker […]
A Closer Look At GameMaker Studio 2 Read More
There are several game engines out there that present a code free option such as Stencyl and Construct. Today we are looking at an open source alternative, GDevelop. It is a cross platform, open source 2D game engine with a visual programming interface that requires no previous experience. However there is also the ability to […]
A Closer Look At GDevelop Read More
Welcome to the getting started tutorial in the ongoing BabylonJS Tutorial Series. Today we are going to look at creating our first simple Babylon application setup and running. As always there is a HD video version of this tutorial available here or embedded down below. To get started with BabylonJS, we need a […]
BabylonJS Tutorial Series–Getting Started Read More
The following is the table of contents for the complete BabylonJS tutorial series here on GameFromScratch. It covers (or will cover) all aspects of game development using the BabylonJS open source HTML5 3D game engine. Table Of Contents series introduction getting started cameras lights materials 3d models coming soon Videos YouTube Series Playlist Miscellaneous a […]
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Introduction Welcome to the first part of a multipart tutorial series on creating games using the Haxe programming language with the Heaps graphics engine. Heaps is under development by Nicolas Cannasse, the guy that created the Haxe language in the first place. In his own words: Heaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed […]
Haxe And Heaps Tutorial Series: Getting Started Read More
