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NVIDIA just released the KickstartRT SDK as an easier way to add raytracing functionality to your game engine or game without having to make extensive changes. It is a cross platform open source API that brings real-time ray-traced reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion and global illumination to game engines, without requiring […]
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The Rust powered game engine Rg3d, which we looked at back in 2021, has just released version 0.24 and rebranded as the Fyrox Engine. In addition to the new name, they also released version 0.24 which adds 2D support and 2D physics support to the engine. Obviously the addition of
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Love it or hate it, but NFTs are coming to the world of game development, or at least their money is. Open source game engines Phaser, Godot and Defold as well as Blender have just received a combined total of $300K USD in grants from the NFT themed company OP
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The open source C based cross platform game library/framework raylib just released version 4. This is the first major update since the 3.7 release in April, raylib 4 is a major update and should be considered a LTS or Long Term Stable release. One of the great things about raylib
Roblox is one of the most successful games of all time and a key part of that success is enabling their users to create their own worlds. When Roblox was started back in 2006, the programming language end users (and Roblox themselves) used was Lua. Over time, Roblox have made
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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