Serif have just released a 1.8 (free!) update to their entire product line of Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo, including the iOS versions. In this video we go hands on and look at several of the new features to this excellent and economical suite of art tools. Link: https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/02/27/Affinity-18-Released.aspx ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRFxzWYFac

Impact ( http://impactjs.com ) was just released for free under the MIT open source license. The code is available on Github ( https://github.com/phoboslab/Impact ). It also includes a level editor called weltmeister, which unfortunately requires a local web server with PHP support to run. This was a $99 purchase in the past, but I have to imagine selling an HTML5 engine in a world with the excellent framework had to be a hard sell. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FAcXYOLr4

Godot, Defold, Blender and Phaser all just received a huge grant from NFT backed company OP Games... That leads to the question... what the heck is an NFT and does it matter? In this video I try my best to explain block chain, NFT, etc... and how it will impact the world of game developers. Links: https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-blender-defold-and-phaser-receive-funding-from-nft-company/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Support* : https://www.patreon.com/gamefromscratch *GameDev News* : https://gamefromscratch.com *GameDev Tutorials* : https://devga.me *Discord* : https://discord.com/invite/R7tUVbD *Twitter* : https://twitter.com/gamefromscratch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caZwwjIjjjA

Great free stuff for Unreal Engine! Ok, no more puns, but this one really is unreal. Epic have announced they are working with marketplace developers to give away free content this month, and next and hopefully on and on for the rest of time. Get high quality sound effects, music, UI components etc, all from their asset store. Check out this months offerings and dont forget to "buy" now before it's too late! Links https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/11/01/Epic-Announce-Unreal-Engine-Marketplace-Giveaways.aspx https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/new-free-content-coming-to-the-unreal-engine-marketplace ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9l69O-jma0