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Godot 3.2.4 has a first beta with 2D batching for GLES3

By Liam Dawe, Oct 22, 2020

Despite the small version bump, Godot 3.2.4 will be quite big release for game developers wanting to squeeze out some more performance.

Unity Technologies announce 'Open Projects', building games in Unity that are open source

By Liam Dawe, Oct 1, 2020

This is brilliant! Unity Technologies creators of the Unity game engine, which is ridiculously popular with indie developers, have started a series of open source game development projects.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 28, 2020

As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.

Check out the open source 2D level editor 'LEd' from the former lead on Dead Cells

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2020

LEd is a very interesting project to follow for both game developers and people looking to get into it, a new free level editor with a firm aim on being user friendly.

Bevy seems like an impressive upcoming free and open source game engine made with Rust

By Liam Dawe, Sep 21, 2020

Feeling a little rusty? After a new game engine for your next game development project? Have a look at Bevy, a cross-platform and open source data-driven game engine built in Rust.

Unity 2020.2 game engine gets a Beta release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 17, 2020

Unity Technologies just recently released a brand new build of the Unity game engine, with a focus on performance, stability and workflow improvements.

Godot Engine documentation is about to get much better with a new hire

By Liam Dawe, Sep 14, 2020

Godot Engine is one of the most exciting, most advanced free and open source game engines around and it's improving when looking at all angles.

The Humble Unity Games and Game Dev Assets Bundle is live

By Liam Dawe, Sep 9, 2020

Are you an aspiring game developer using Unity or just want to get some extra assets? Check out the Humble Unity Games and Game Dev Assets Bundle, there's a few games too.

Open source NES-style music maker FamiStudio has a big new release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 8, 2020

Another great project we are following is FamiStudio, a free and open source NES-style music maker and they have a fresh release up now.

Valve update open source GameNetworkingSockets with P2P connections

By Liam Dawe, Sep 4, 2020

GameNetworkingSockets is just one in a list of open source projects worked on by Valve developers, and this doesn't even require Steam so developers can use it anywhere.

FNA 20.09 is out with the new FNA3D, brings experimental Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, Sep 3, 2020

A big day for the FNA project, as they've released a massive new release which pulls in FNA3D, the new modern and much more advanced 3D graphics library for FNA.

Vlambeer celebrates 10 years of indie dev by announcing time is up

By Liam Dawe, Sep 2, 2020

Vlambeer were an indie developer duo consisting of Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail. They recently hit the 10 year mark, and decided to celebrate by announcing Vlambeer is shutting.

Event-driven FOSS game engine GDevelop adds dynamic 2D lights, more features

By Liam Dawe, Sep 1, 2020

The free and open source game engine and editor GDevelop continues maturing, with new features constantly being pulled it to make it more powerful.

Open source 3D creation suite 'Blender' has a major new release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 1, 2020

Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite continues going from strength to strength, with a brand new release out now. Let's go over the highlights.

Kit-bash your way to success in game dev as Asset Forge 2.1 is out

By Liam Dawe, Aug 27, 2020

Need to make some nice models for games? Asset Forge is a nice way to do it, allowing you to kit-bash your way to create some really nice assets.

Make retro Game Boy games with the open source GB Studio, now with colour in the 2.0 Beta

By Liam Dawe, Aug 26, 2020

GB Studio is a free and open source retro adventure game creator that allows you to visually make games that can work cross-platform on Linux, macOS, Windows…and the Game Boy.

The 7DFPS Game Jam returns in December 2020

By Liam Dawe, Aug 25, 2020

Ready to see more weird and unique games? The 7DFPS Game Jam returns this December so it's time to get planning.

Unity Technologies officially files to go public with an IPO

By Liam Dawe, Aug 25, 2020

Unity Technologies, creator on the Unity game engine has now formally applied for IPO (initial public offering) and the documents are pretty revealing.

Want more professional Godot Engine tutorials? Check out this new Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, Aug 15, 2020

Interested in game development? Godot Engine is a constantly improving free, open source and high quality game engine and one developer is trying to push out more professional content to help people using it.