Game Development News, Tutorials and More
We have never been more spoiled for choice when it comes to the world of game development. Today we are going to take a look at 16 of the most exciting tools and game engines in development right now. This isn’t by any means a “best of” list, just a
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Following on the heels of their 2024 release of free versions of their Rider and WebStorm IDEs, JetBrains have announced a new free version of the popular C/C++ IDE CLion. This new version is free for all non-commercial projects and should make it easier for people to access their tools.
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Today we look at some of the amazing free game development tools available in 2025. We start of quickly with the most commonly used applications, then we move into perhaps more obscure but no less awesome and FREE tools available to game developers. In the video we also mention to
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I have long been a fan of the open source free RayLib game development framework. With bindings for just about every programming language ever, tons of examples and support for most major platforms, Raylib is a versatile toolkit for building games using code. What has always shined about RayLib though
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There is a powerful new tool for Godot Engine game developers, called appropriately enough Unreal to Godot Exporter. I covered the authors previous tool Unreal to Unity (available on Unity asset store here) and it was by far the best way to get assets from Unreal Engine to Unity. I
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Cascadeur 2024.2 was just released. This powerful animation application is an example of AI and machine learning done right, in that it is there to assist the artist, not replace them. The 2024.2 of Cascadeur adds several new features including: Key Links Cascadeur Homepage 2024.2 Release Notes You can learn
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We first covered the Game UI Database in April of 2023 and at the time it was one of the single best resources for game UI/UX designers, with a massive database of game user interface elements. Today, Game UI Database 2.0 has been released, a massive (ironically enough) user interface
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Skybox AI is a free to use tool, powered by a modified Stable Diffusion, from Blockade Labs. It is used to create game ready Skybox textures from text prompts. Skybox AI is described as: The most recent release added several interesting new features: With Sketch mode, we’re introducing a new
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LDtk, the Level Designer Toolkit (previously known as LeD) is a free and open source map editor from one of the creators of Dead Cells. LDtk has received several improvements since we last looked at it, including the addition of MacOS support. Another new recent feature is the addition of
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Today Adobe have announced Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. In other words, this is Adobe’s answer to A.I image generators like DALLE, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (learn more about these 3 tools here). Adobe need to walk a fine line here as their
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