Want to make a 3D adventure game? There's now a full template project for Godot Engine
Say hello to GOAT (Godot Open Adventure Template), a new open source project template for Godot Engine aimed at helping developers to create 3D adventure games.
Category: Game Dev
Unity deprecating built-in XR (VR/AR etc) support for a new plugin system - Valve doing their own for SteamVR
While the state of Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality (XR) is constantly in flux and improving all the time, Unity have announced with Unity 2019.3 that their built-in XR support is being deprecated.
All courses from online learning site '3D Buzz' went free, due to the website shutting down; torrent available
3D Buzz was an online learning platform about programming, game development and animation which has now shut down.
If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii
Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.
CodeWeavers still looking to hire more Graphics Developers
Do you have strong C language skills and good experience with OpenGL, DirectX and Vulkan? CodeWeavers are still looking to hire Graphics Developers.
Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up
Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.
FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects
GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.
GB Studio, a free and open source retro adventure game creator
Want to create your own seriously retro games? The free and open source GB Studio can certainly help you to do that.
Flax Engine 0.6 beta released, adds Linux support
Nice to see even more game engines add Linux support. Flax Engine is one we covered recently, after they announced their plans to support Linux and now it has arrived.
Atari will offer 80/20 revenue split for the Atari VCS, confirming standard Linux games will run on it
The team behind the Atari VCS have finally given out some details on developing games for it, along with their revenue share model.
Need to make some pixel art? Pixelorama is a cross-platform FOSS tool worth looking at
It seems Godot Engine is good for more than making games, as the FOSS pixel art tool Pixelorama will show you.
Chooseco are getting indie games using 'choose your own adventure' taken down on itch.io
The creator of indie store itch.io has issued a warning to game developers, as Chooseco appear to be trying to take down anything using the 'choose your own adventure' phrase.
SDL is expanding gamepad support with 8Bitdo SN30 Pro, Google Stadia and more
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) the awesome cross-platform development library used by Valve, Feral Interactive, Unity, MonoGame, FNA, DOSBox and so many more is expanding.
Game dev: Flax Engine is adding Linux support in an upcoming update
Flax Engine, another game engine that supports Vulkan is going cross-platform with an upcoming release adding in Linux support.
D9VK developer is working on allowing DXVK to help Linux ports for Direct3D to Vulkan
You have a fancy game using Direct3D 11 and you want to port it to Linux? In future, DXVK may be able to help with that.
Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets
Epic Games have reached down the back of the sofa and pulled up enough loose change to acquire Quixel.
The first Beta of Godot Engine 3.2 has been released
The team behind the FOSS game engine, Godot Engine, have now released the first Beta in the 3.2 series so the full release is coming close now with lots of new goodies for game developers.
The FOSS rendering engine OGRE is being ported to Vulkan
Some fun news for game developers and the Vulkan ecosystem as another FOSS rendering engine is being ported over to Vulkan.
The Khronos Group has launched a unified samples repository for Vulkan learning
Today, The Khronos Group announced their newest Vulkan initiative with the Unified Samples Repository. A new place to find what they say are high-quality Vulkan code samples reviewed by their team.
GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games has gone open source
Oh how I do love to see more projects go open source! GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games that's designed to help hide network latency in fast-paced games that requires precise inputs is now on GitHub.
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