Smithsonian Open Access give access to millions of 2D images and thousands of 3D models, all under the CC0 license. A potential gold mine of data for game developers, all completely free.
Link:
https://www.si.edu/openaccess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYeTlRtNb_g
Blender 2.82 is released and in this video we look at key new features in this release such as the NVIDIA OptiX denoiser, sculpting improvements, multipass rendering in EEVEE, the new fluid and gas simulation engine Mantaflow and much more.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/02/14/Blender-282-Released.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkZxThbBDLc
Love it or hate it, the Epic Game Store has provided indie developers another avenue to monetize their game, and now it's gotten even easier. You can new self publish your title to the Epic Game Store. We look at the conditions, advantages and process in this video.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/epic-games-add-self-publishing-to-epic-game-store/
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In this video we go hands-on with the Unigine game engine. Traditionally used in simulations and engineering as well as benchmarks, Unigine has recently started offering a subscription version aimed at indie game developers. In this video we check out the game engine in action.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/10/13/Hands-On-With-Unigine-Engine.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxedhnHwm0g
Continuing our ongoing series identifying the best of free game development tools, today we are looking at freely available 2D animation tools.
Links
https://devga.me/free/2d-graphics-applications/
https://devga.me/free/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6U7cmqNBs
Looking for a laptop for game development? Hopefully this video can help! We look at the key components for a laptop, specifically used for game development. Things like CPU, GPU, SSD, etc, then discuss some of the most popular options on the market.
The written version of this guide with links to all the discussed laptops is available at:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/01/09/Choosing-a-Game-Development-Laptop-2018-Edition.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4psrCr2kc
Today we are checking out another Godot add-on, this one is for Godot 4+ and frankly it's pretty awesome. It's Phantom Camera and it aims to emulate the functionality of Unity's Cinemachine and provides a very powerful camera for both 2D and 3D games.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/phantom-camera-godot-add-on/
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Surge XT just released version 1.0. Surge is an open source and free synthesizer available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/surge-xt-synthesizer-release-version-1-0/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX9XS45pdqo
Monogame, an open source cross platform port of Microsoft's XNA game framework, just released version 3.7. This video looks at this release and at Monogame in general.
Links:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/09/24/MonoGame-37-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/MonoGame-Tutorial-Series.aspx
http://community.monogame.net/t/monogame-3-7-release/10971
https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/v3.7/CHANGELOG.md
https://fna-xna.github.io/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1wsKE7Wjus