Game Development News, Tutorials and More
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 DragonRuby Game Toolkit standard edition is currently available for free today only. We looked at the DragonRuby toolkit last year if you want a more in-depth look into this unique game framework. It is a high performance, simple to use, Ruby powered framework for creating 2D games. In response …
Tilengine is a C99 based open source game engine/framework for creating retro or classic style games, such as those from the SNES or Genesis era. We first covered Tilengine way back in 2017 then again in 2018 when it was open sourced. In the 2 1/2 years since we lasted …
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 …
Bevy is an open source Rust powered cross platform game framework. The tagline says it all “A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust”.
Box2D, the popular open source 2D physics engine, just released version 2.4.0. Among other changes the 2.4.0 release saw a change from the ZLib open source license to the very similar MIT open source license. Other details from the release notes: Infrastructure Documentation in Doxygen format CMake build system Unit …
Today we are looking at the game engine/framework combo WebGLStudio, an entirely browser based game engine with a complete visual editor. Key features of WebGLStudio include:A full 3D graphics engine (LiteScene.js) that supports multiple lights, shadowmaps, realtime reflections, custom materials, postFX, skinning, animation, and much more. An easily extended, component-based system for controlling the rendering […]
DragonRuby is a game development framework powered by the Ruby programming language. It is lightweight and crossplatform with an easy to learn API. It is regularly $47USD, however it is currently included in the Bundle For Racial Justice currently running on Itch.io, along with hundreds of games for just $5.Key features of DragonRuby include:Dirt simple […]
Plywood is a new C++ based cross platform C++ framework created by Jeff Preshing, who previously worked at Ubisoft Montreal. Plywood is composed of 3 primary parts, a project build/management system, a C++ reflection and serialization system and a collection of modules to provide low level functionality needed by all games. Plywood is open source […]
Welcome to another NewsFromScratch game development news round-up. Today we have 2 different game engine releases, a new asset pack from Kenney.nl, as well as an update to AssetForge.DiligentEngineDiligent Engine is a cross platform rendering framework that abstracts away the complexities of dealing with OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX and Metal APIs. This new release adds Vulkan […]
