Here's some alternatives to the Unity game engine
In the wake of Unity setting everything on fire with their new revenue model for developers, here's a reminder on what other game engines and tech is out there for developers to look into.
Category: Game Dev
The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund
The same day that Unity confused all their developers with a new pay per user install revenue model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine just announced their new Godot Development Fund.
Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs
Unity Technologies have announced an overhaul to their fees for game developers, which now includes tracking game installs and revenue.
Steam will soon show better controller support details like for PlayStation controllers
Valve has announced to developers that they're going to be rolling out better ways to show off controller support for games on Steam.
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers
Ethan Lee, otherwise known as flibitijibibo (really rolls off the tongue huh), who created FNA and has ported a ton of games to Linux, macOS and more has announced a new game maintenance service for developers.
NVIDIA posts NVAPI core software development kit on GitHub
NVAPI is NVIDIA's core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on supported platforms, and it's now been put up on GitHub.
Learn to make no-code games with GDevelop and Fanatical
Want to make games but don't know how to code? The free and open source GDevelop is a great cross-platform tool with an events-driven system.
Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help
With Godot Engine moving over to being supported by the Godot Foundation directly, they've begun pushing for people to support their efforts via their new funding platform inspired by Blender.
AMD opens up the FidelityFX SDK and it's now on GitHub
Helping game developers integrate various AMD FidelityFX technologies into their games, AMD yesterday open sourced the FidelityFX SDK.
Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library
Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.
Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache
Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.
Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters. UPDATE: Valve gave a statement.
Blender v3.6 is out now as a new long-term support release
Showing many companies how open source can be seriously successful, Blender version 3.6 is out now and it's a long-term support release so it would be good to upgrade and stick with it for a while.
SDL 2.28.0 released and goes into maintenance mode, now focusing on SDL 3
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware used by a great many companies and SDL 2 is now pretty much finished.
This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited
There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch.
NVIDIA open sources more of RTX Remix with v0.2
NVIDIA has released version 0.2 of RTX Remix today, which on top of lots of improvements also opens up their NVIDIA RTX Remix Bridge.
AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK adds Linux support
One for game developers here and anyone tinkering around with graphics APIs, as AMD has announced the next upgrade to their Render Pipeline Shaders SDK and now it has Linux support.
FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux using DXVK and vkd3d
Some fun for game developers and game porters looking at Linux and Steam Deck here, as FNA has released a major upgrade that has early support for Direct3D 11 on Linux.
Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023
The Linux Game Jam 2023 is happening and a good chance for you to blow the dust and clean away the cobwebs from your development environment and perhaps come up with the next big hit?
Godot Engine 4.1 to get FSR 2.2, better 3D support for OpenGL, shader improvements
Seems like the next update for Godot Engine is going to be a nice one for game developers, with multiple graphics enhancements on the way.
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