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The sequel to the smash hit indie deck building game Slay the Spire was just announced at the Triple-I showcase. The reason why this is relevant to game developers is MegaCrit are one of the many developers that spoke out after the Unity runtime pricing change releasing the following statement: […]
Smash Indie Hit Sequel Slay the Spire 2 Made with Godot Read More
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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In the just released GameMaker Beta 2024.400 a major new feature is the addition of Code Editor 2.0. By default you will need to enable the code editor by going to File->Preferences (or Ctrl + Shift + P), then locating the Code Editor 2 selection and enabling the feature: New
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Blender Core Skills: The Ultimate Blender Basics bundle. This is a collaboration with the Blender instructors at CG Cookie and is a single tier bundle containing downloadable video courses covering a wide variety of Blender topics. 15$ Tier
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There has been another impressive update to Visual Studio Code. The March 2024 release adds several impressive new features, including: Apply custom editor labels – Distinguish between editors with same file names.Locked scrolling – Compare editors side-by-side with synchronized scrolling.Extension update improvements – Restart extensions without reload & update extensions
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What do you get when you cross Daz3D characters with Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion generative AI? A tire fire mostly… a tire fire known as AI Studio. Judging from the reactions to their announcement video on YouTube, the community isn’t exactly embracing this product with open arms. Details of Daz
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This is a casual, slightly unstructured tutorial covering the task of lighting in the Godot 4.x (Godot 4.2 specifically in this example) game engine. We cover topics including lighting and shadows, world environment, emissive textures, global illumination and more. The tutorial is video only and uses assets from the GameMasters
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The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. This release adds several new features including .NET 8/ C#12 support, a new integrated UI building tool and much more. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 release from the Flax blog: We’re happy to release Flax 1.8! It brings lots of great
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Former EA CEO John Riccitiello was at the helm of Unity for almost a decade and during that time Unity have made several major moves. Among the highlights of the Riccitiello era include: So… how did these acquisitions and developments turn out? Well: So… not great. Although they still have Ziva
The De-Riccitiello-ification of Unity Read More
The popular Babylon JS Game Engine for creating 3D games that can run on the web just released Babylon 7. Key features of this release include: Key Links BabylonJS Homepage Babylon 7 Release Notes GitHub Repository You can learn more about Babylon 7 watching the following video or clicking the
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