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We reported back in December 2023 of a collaboration between Google, The Forge and Godot focused on improving Android support in the Godot game engine. Essentially Google paid for several months of The Forge development time focused on Android improvements, although the major improvement of Vulkan optimization will help all […]
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Learn to Make Games in Godot 4 bundle is a collection of Godot courses by GameDev.tv. As with most bundles it is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier Godot 4 Shader Course: Craft Stunning Visuals Mid Tier Master Mobile
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Today we are checking out GeoGen, an application for generating terrain/landscapes as well as planets procedurally, from JangaFX, the creators of EmberGen and the free Game Texture Viewer. GeoGen is currently still in alpha (although it is available for sale) and graph based workflow for creating landscapes and planets. GeoGen
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The source code for the 1999 Interplay/Outrage Entertainment game Descent 3 was just open sourced on GitHub under the MIT license. The person responsible for opening the project made the following statement on Reddit /r/gamedev: I was one of the developers for Descent 3 back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Krotos SFX & Plugins for Sound Design bundle. The primary aspect of this bundle is a HUGE collection of sound effects in WAV format, although it also contains a pair of VST audio plug-ins as well as a
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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:
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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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