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Of all the major corporations absent from the Blender Development Fund, Apple was always the most glaring omission. As of today that has changed as Blender have announced that Apple have joined the fund as a Patron level sponsor. There are minimal details on the Blender news page: The Blender …
After being in development since 2011, Bespoke is a new open source modular DAW or Digital Audio Workstation, that takes a different approach to music creation. Bespoke is available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux and the source code is hosted on GitHub under the GPL v3 open source …
G’MIC is an open source framework for image processing and manipuation, which came to my attention with it’s recent integration into Krita 5. G’MIC, or GrayC’s Magic for Image Computing is available in a number of different forms, from a very ImageMagick-esque command line interface, to an online version, as …
LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar …
The microStudio game engine, first covered on GameFromScratch back in October of 2020, just open sourced. The code, written in CoffeeScript, was released on GitHub under the MIT open source license. MicroStudio is entirely browser based and is available at https://microstudio.dev. MicroStudio is described as: microStudio is a free, open …
When we last discussed the Lumberyard game engine, it was for the underwhelming 1.28 release, but we mostly talked about a number of great new features in development on the Lumberyard game engine. Today we learned another major milestone in the future of Lumberyard… it is no more. From this …
GitHub have just launched an interesting new AI driven project, GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is developed in collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI and is using artificial intelligence to support the developers. Instead of just being a better Intellisense, Copilot actually creates code dynamically using machine learning, based off comments or …
Game publisher Activision have just released an open source project USD Shell Extension. The project is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license and enables Windows users to interact with USD files, a increasingly industry standard interchange format created by Pixar. Details of the Activision USD Shell …
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SpookyGhost is a cross platform procedural animation tool made using the nCine 2D C++ game engine and the ImGui UI framework. SpookyGhost was recently released as free and open source under the MIT source license with the source hosted on GitHub. SpookyGhost enables you to easily create 2D animations using …
MiniGDX is a recently released open source framework for 2D and 3D game development using the Kotlin game engine. This is the second Kotlin game engine we have featured on GameFromScratch, the first being the Korge Engine. Kotlin is a relatively new programming language from JetBrains, makers of the popular …
