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It’s time for the July Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from July 14th – July 28th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets as well as 1 asset for Unity (and generic
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Electronic Arts have just open sourced an incredibly handy tool for developing and debugging GLSL and HLSL shaders – ShaderToHuman. This is a (development only!) tool that essentially provides 2 features… C PrintF style text output and a minimalistic ImGui-like UI layer. This makes it easy to display debug information
ShaderToHuman: Shader Debugging for Mere Mortals Read More
The s&box Game Engine (we explored in depth in February of 2025), Facepunch Studios spiritual successor and a full-blown game engine in it’s own right, is now open sourced. Facepunch made the following announcement with their most recent 25.11.26 update: s&box is now open source under MIT license, you can get
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One of the oldest popular video game series and perhaps the first cross-platform game “engine”, Zork was a series of text adventures. First released on home computers in the early 80s by Infocom, Zork is now through a series of acquisitions, owned by Microsoft after they acquired Activision. As a
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Raylib is an awesome free and open source game development framework written using the C programming language. One of the biggest strengths of Raylib beyond it’s ease of use, excellent examples and multiple language bindings is its ability to run on a variety of different platforms with zero external dependencies.
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Blockbench is an incredibly easy to use 3D modelling application we checked out earlier this year that has a major release coming soon. Currently available in Beta 3, Blockbench 5 is a major update including a new user interface design, improved animation tools, new modelling tools and more. Blockbench is
The Spartan Game Engine is a free, cross platform C++ game engine we first looked back in 2021. Since then the game engine has continued to be involved and improved. The project started as a one man effort to create a game engine that he used to get a job
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The popular 3D game engine PlayCanvas has just been fully open sourced. The backend game engine powering PlayCanvas has always been open sourced, as has the UI framework, but the game editor has always been closed and proprietary. This has just changed with today’s announcement: Key Links PlayCanvas Open-Source Announcement
PlayCanvas WebGL/WebGPU Game Engine Open Sourced Read More
There is a new free and open source tool, growing the list of applications developed using the Godot game engine, called either Godot Pixel Studio or Godot Pixel Renderer. This application enables you to take animated 3D models and render them to a sequence of sprite animations, with a ton
Godot Pixel Studio – 3D To Sprite Tool Read More
Microsoft have just made a major announcement that will shake the business model of popular AI based code editors Cursor and Windsurf. Both of these companies are built around forks of Visual Studio Code that build AI tooling “into the bones”. Microsoft have just announced they are open sourcing GitHub
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