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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Beepbox Easy Online Music Sketching Application
Beepbox is a free online tool for quickly generating music via sketching. It’s written in a combination of JavaScript and TypeScript with the source code available on GitHub under the very permissive MIT license. Getting started with Beepbox is as simple as going to the website and starting to lay …
City Generator Hands-On
City Generator is a free and open-source procedural generation tool for creating American-style grid based cities. The source code is available on GitHub under the GPL 3 license, composed almost entirely of TypeScript code. Features of City Generator include: .png download .png heightmap download .svg download .stl download Several colour themes …
Facebook Joins Blender as Corporate Sponsor
Today Facebook announced they will be joining the Blender Development fund at the corporate patron level, the highest tier.
GIMP 2.99.2 Released
GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, just released version 2.99.2 beta, a giant step toward the upcoming 3.0 release. The heart of this update is the move to the GTK 3 UI toolkit from the existing GTK2 version. This has many advantages, especially when it comes to increasingly common HiDPI …
LDtk The Level Designer Toolkit
LDtk, or Level Designer Toolkit, is an open source MIT licensed Haxe based 2D level editor from the creator of Dead Cells. If it looks familiar that is because we recently covered it when it was known as LEd. In just a few short months though, LDtk has come a …
Six Great Game Development YouTube Channels
YouTube is an incredible resource for game developers, but sorting the gems out can be a challenge. Today we are going to highlight 6 excellent game development channels, especially if you are a Godot developer, as well as general game development guides, Blender, GameMaker and more. AskGameDev AskGameDev is a …
ODIN 2 Synthesizer VST
Recently updated, today we are checking out the free and open source ODIN 2 synthesizer. It is built on top of the JUCE audio framework (also open source). ODIN 2 is described as: Ever dreamt of a kickass synthesizer which is available on every platform? With a deep synthesis engine, …
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 …
LibGDX Status Report
LibGDX is a cross platform open source game development framework (previously covered in-depth tutorial series on GFS here and here) that has seen more frequent development in recent months. LibGDX is a battle tested and production ready game framework that was used in recent titles such as Attack the Spire …