Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Today we are going to look at the game engines that have been the most impactful or important for game development. This list is heavily opinion based and driven by a few criteria. First all of the game engines (with one honourable mention exception) were all available to the general […]
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Looking for a tool for digital painting? Check. Looking for a pixel art creation tool? Check. Looking for a 2D animation tool? Check. Looking for a vector graphics application? Check. Looking for a node based procedural FX system? Check. As you may be able to tell from the list above,
PixiEditor – Universal 2D Graphics Editor Read More
Choosing a game engine is never an easy task, especially when you are just starting out and don’t even know what questions to ask! Today we look at two of the most popular game engines, the open-source Godot game engine and the juggernaut Unity game engine and hopefully help to
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The Rebel Fork, or rbfx Game Engine, is an open source C++ based game engine forked from the Urho3D game engine. Urho3D ran into a community schism back in 2023 that effectively ended the development on that game engine. Part of the community behind Urho3D created the Rebel Fork, also
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Today we revisit Blockbench (we first reviewed this application back in 2020) a powerful, but completely free and open-source 3D modelling application for Mac, Windows, Linux and even the Web. It is one of the easiest to use 3D modelling applications in existence and in addition to modeling also is
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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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The Shape Engine is an interesting open source C# based 2D vector graphics game engine built on top of the excellent RayLib framework. Key Features of the Shape Engine include: Shape Engine is free and open source under the MIT license. Key Links Shape Engine GitHub Shape Engine on Itch.io
In a similar vein to NeoVim today we look at the Helix text editor. This is a terminal based code editor heavily inspired by the classic Vi/Vim text editors using a nearly identical control set while including more features out of the box than most of the other Vim alternatives.
Cursor is a new code editor built entirely around AI code assistance. It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with the coding assistant (referred to as Copilot++) functionality tightly integrated. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux with a few version available with a limited number of GPT
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InstaMAT is a new application from the makers of InstaLOD, that is used to create and layer procedurally generated textures in a manner very similar to Substance Designer and Quixel Mixer. InstaMAT is described as: InstaMAT lets you tap into unprecedented workflows when it comes to working with 3D materials
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