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In 2021 there are an amazing number of free (and often open source) alternatives to commercial graphics applications, such as Adobe’s suite (Photoshop, Animate, Illustrator, Premere, Substance and more) and other applications like Autodesk’s 3DS Max and Maya. The following is a list of freely (as in beer) available applications. […]
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It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway time. Available until the first Tuesday in August, the following free Unreal assets can be “purchased” for free in July, at which point they are yours forever. On the topic of forever, they also added
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As we predicted several months ago when YoYoGames was acquired by Opera, a free version of GameMaker Studio has been released. We did a Closer Look at GameMaker several years ago, it is a long running 2D game engine that has been used to make dozens if not hundreds of
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Hot on the heels of the preview release of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games have also released several more assets in the Unreal Engine June marketplace giveaway. This month 5 new assets have been added, and they are yours free forever if purchased before the first Tuesday of July 2021.
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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
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The excellent book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development is now available for free online. Authored by Fletcher Dunn (currently a game developer at Valve) and Ian Parbery, this is by far and away one of the most approachable books I have ever encountered to learn the fundamental
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It is time for the Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway for March 2021. Epic Games are offering up five assets that are yours free forever so long as you “purchase” them before the first Tuesday of next month. In addition to these five assets, there is one additional asset added to
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Houdini Engine is now available for free for Unreal and Unity game developers. Houdini is a popular long running 3D application from SideFX software that is known for it’s procedural approach to basically the entire 3D process. Houdini Engine is a runtime that enables you to run Houdini generated simulations
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Computer Graphics From Scratch is an upcoming book that takes a unique approach to teaching graphics programming. The book started life a few years ago as a free e-book that was picked up by No Starch Press. Even better, No Starch is permitting the author Gabriel Gambetta to host the
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The first Tuesday of every month, Epic Games give away a number of marketplace assets for free for Unreal Engine developers, and February 2021 is no exception. This month contains 5 new “free for the month” assets. These assets have a price tag of $0 and if “purchased” before the
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