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Unreal Engine 5 goes out in Early Access with continued Linux support
Epic Games has today released Unreal Engine 5 into Early Access with some huge new features, a new look for the editor and continued support for Linux builds of games.
Category: Game Dev
Go Godot Jam is an upcoming Godot Gamedev Festival between May 6 - June 9
Learn more about the free and open source Godot Engine during Go Godot Jam, part of the Godot Gamedev Festival running from today May 6 through to June 9.
FMOD Studio 2.02 is out along with native Linux support
Enabling even more developers to work directly from Linux, FMOD Studio 2.02 has been released which includes (amongst other things) native support for Linux.
Godot Engine 3.3 is out with plans for 3.4 while 4.0 with Vulkan is still in progress
The free and open source game engine Godot Engine has a huge new feature release out, so big they had to change the version number and they have some big plans for long-term support.
GodotCon returns online for Godot Engine in July, submit your talk now
Interested in game development, open source and Godot Engine? GodotCon is planned to return in July.
Flax game engine 1.1 is out with Linux Editor support
Another promising game engine with lots of big features is Flax, available free with the source available (but not Open Source) has a huge new release out with improvements to their Linux support.
Arrow is a new open source app for developing text adventures and game narratives
Are you designing a game narrative or want to make some sort of text adventure? Even if it's just prototyping or storyboarding the free and open source app Arrow can help.
plus-x is a simple tool to help developers on Windows set Linux permissions for games
Here's a small and very useful sounding application from game developer Cheeseness. It's called plus-x and the aim is to allow developers on Windows to set the correct permissions on Linux executables.
Open source mixed reality library StereoKit adds Linux support
The XR (VR/AR) space continues to evolve and one of the promising projects there is called StereoKit, an open source mixed reality library and a new release is out now adding in Linux support.
KenShape is a new tool to get easy 3D models from 2D pixel-art by Kenney
Want a quick way to make 3D models? Here's your fresh tip of the day for prototyping, game development or anything else - check out the new KenShape application from Kenney.
Defold game engine planning Linux improvements through 2021
Defold, a free game engine with the source code available under a reasonable open license has released a roadmap for 2021 and it's sounding pretty good.
An interview with Decemberborn Interactive for their game Cathedral
Here's another developer interview for you! This time we chatted with Decemberborn Interactive about their game Cathedral.
FOSS game engine GDevelop gets early support for tile-based maps
Getting increasingly more useful and powerful, the open source game engine GDevelop has another new version up with the first iteration of support for tile-based maps.
Collabora talk enhancing apitrace with gltrim to get replayable cut traces
Developers working across different areas of Linux are always looking for ways to squeeze a bit more performance, and it seems Collabora came up with a new way to performance test with upgrades to apitrace.
The Machinery game engine adds Linux support in Preview
The Machinery, an upcoming game engine from people who previously worked on the likes of Stingray, Bitsquid, and Diesel engines released a new build with the first Preview of Linux support.
Free cross-platform game engine Defold is now on Steam
Looking to make games? Defold is a pretty great option that has wonderful cross-platform support and it's free too, available under a pretty open license (but not open source).
Free and open source modern level editor LDtk has a huge new release
LDtk (prev called LEd) is an in-development free and open source level editor, one that's modern and designed to be as user-friendly as possible designed by a former dev on Dead Cells.
YoYo Games developer of GameMaker Studio sold for $10M (updated)
Game Maker and later GameMaker Studio is a very popular game engine with indie developers and YoYo Games just recently sold it off and it appears they did so at a loss. Update: Opera confirmed as the new owner.
Is opening up your source code worth it? Terry Cavanagh thinks it was for VVVVVV
A lot of game developer still worry about being more open with their code but it seems Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV, Super Hexagon, Dicey Dungeons) believes it was worth it.
NES-style free chiptune music maker FamiStudio has a new release up
Free, open source and a lot of fun to get mixing, FamiStudio is a wonderful application for making some retro tunes and there's a new release available.
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