Voxatron Becomes A Fantasy Console & A Game
Do you remember Voxatron? You don't? Well Voxatron is currently in alpha and it was part of a Humble Bundle named "The Humble Voxatron Debut!". Much has changed since then.
Category: Toolkit
Valve Publishes Their SteamOS Mesa Patched Branch On Github
Valve have now put up their patched branch of Mesa that they use for SteamOS on github for all to see.
Leadwerks Game Creation Toolkit Arrives On Linux This Monday!
Leadwerks the fantastic looking game creation toolkit is due to arrive on Linux on Monday. Josh Klint announced on kickstarter last night.
V-Play Game Engine Supports Linux, Uses Qt Creator IDE
Another game engine highlight for you today, this time it is V-Play a 2D game engine that enables you to code once for many platforms.
Natural Selection 2's Direct3D HLSL to OpenGL GLSL Parser Open Sourced
In another win for open-source the developers behind Natural Selection 2 have opened up the code they use to parse HLSL calls into OpenGL's GLSL.
Support 'Game Develop' To Make Ubuntu A First Class Citizen For Its Game Toolkit
Game Develop is an interesting bit of kit, as it's like GameMaker, Clickteam's Fusion and Scirra's Construct 2 in the way of letting you create games without programming. They need funding to make their Ubuntu support better.
Maratis Another Open-Source Game Engine
Move over Godot, you aren't the only open-source game engine in town. Maratis is also free and open source!
Esenthel Next-Gen Game Engine, Supports Linux
With all the talk of game engines giving Linux support recently, here is another. Esenthel game engine classes itself as a "Next-Gen" game engine with advanced features.
NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains, With Slides
Well this is mighty fine, seems the big guns have teamed up on this one to talk about performance gains in OpenGL.
Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Supports Steam's Big Picture Mode
A chance for Valve to really improve their own software, as their Vogl OpenGL debugger now supports debugging their Big Picture mode.
Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Development Kit 2 Announced
Oculus has announced their second generation VR development kit with many improvements, it's closer to what the retail release will be.
Crytek Aren't Taking Any Prisoners, Announcing CRYENGINE As A Service
So, with Unity upgrades costing a small fortune and Epic Games releasing Unreal Engine 4 for a monthly fee, Crytek has one-upped them both by "doing an Epic" and announced CRYENGINE for $9.90/9.90EUR a month under-cutting Unreal Engine.
Unreal Engine 4 Announced With Linux Support Including The Editor, Source Code Access & More!
So, this is massive news and yet another reason why games not having a Linux version should become a thing of the past. Epic Games has announced Unreal Engine 4 with Linux support and not just in exporting, the toolkit will be native too.
Epic Games & Mozilla Give Sneak Peak At Unreal Engine 4 In The Browser
Mozilla have been busy haven't they, they are now working with Unity3D on an WebGL exporter while they have also been working with Epic Games to port Unreal Engine 4 to the web!
Flash Is Dying, Long Live OpenFL
Lars Doucet, the developer of Defenders Quest has written an interesting blog post about Flash and his thoughts on Flash dying.
Unity 5 Announced With WebGL Exporting, Will They Fix Linux Mouse Woes?
So, Unity 5 is now a thing, I hear the sound of many developers who recently purchased version 4 crying out in horror at having to pay to upgrade so soon. Looks like a lot of new goodies for developers!
Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Works On AMD's Drivers
Valve's Rich Geldreich has been busy, he has now fixed a number of issues that where driver specific to AMD, allowing the debugger to work for AMD now too.
Unity Confirms They Have No Plans For A Linux Editor
Even though the request page for a Unity Editor on Linux has reached nearly 10,000 votes, Unity themselves have confirmed they have no plans for it.
Proper Nvidia PhysX Linux Support Soon With Nvidia GameWorks
Looks like Nvidia are stepping their game up, they announced Nvidia GameWorks recently and one their videos specifically mentions Linux support.
Valve's OpenGL Debugger VOGL Now Open Source On Github
Valve mentioned at Steam Dev Days that they were working on an OpenGL debugger, they have now delivered. Vogl is now on github for all to see.
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