More or less if you want a single asset it the bundle it makes the other 29 items more or less free. There is an eclectic mix of assets in the bundle, totaling to slightly over $1,500 Canadian, so it's a pretty great deal. Even better, there is very little overlap with previous Unity Mega Bundle or past Humble Bundles, with 27 of the 30 assets being new offerings!
Also remember, many of these assets can be used outside of the Unity game engine, with some handy exporting guides (Godot, Blender, Unreal Engine, etc), linked below.
Welcome to week 5 of This Week in Gamedev, a look at what happened in the world of game development.
This weeks stories:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/17/Xenko-Formerly-Paradox-Release-Version-15.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/17/Unreal-Release-New-Free-Match3-GameTutorial.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/17/Mozilla-Release-A-Frame-For-Virtual-Reality-on-The-Web.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/17/LibGDX-172-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/17/First-Ever-LibGDX-Jam.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/12/19/Corona-SDK-add-Mac-OS-Support-tvOS-In-Beta.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk_NDe6fNts
Godot just got a new platinum level sponsor today, Heroic Labs, the makers of the open source back end game server Nakama. In this video we look at what it means to be a Platinum sponsor and follow up by looking at Nakama that is going to be integrated with Godot in the near future.
Link
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/10/02/Godot-Gains-New-Platinum-Sponsor-Heroic-Labs.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzl-eBwBwZ4
At Oculus Connect (OC5), Oculus just announced the upcoming Oculus Quest, a 6DOF stand alone VR headset, that fits between the Oculus Go and the Oculus Rift in their product lineup. It's coming next spring with a price tag of $399. This is a stand alone completely wireless Oculus VR headset that ships with two controllers.
Link:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/09/26/Oculus-Quest-VR-Headset-Announced.aspx
https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-our-first-6dof-all-in-one-vr-system-launching-spring-2019/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMZ_e2TiW4
When Microsoft killed off RoboVM, the future of LibGDX on iOS was thrown into question. Thankfully this question has been answered!
Links mentioned in this video:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/04/15/RoboVM-is-Dead.aspx
http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=3934
https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine
http://robovm.mobidevelop.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOGBWUXJMM
It's that time of the month again... the first Tuesday where Epic Games gives away assets from the Unreal Marketplace. So long as you buy them before the next giveaway, they are yours to keep forever.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/01/07/Unreal-Engine-January-2020-Free-Content.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gdg0pqRbQ0
Code and Images: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/22/Love2D-Using-Sprites-Tutorial.aspx
In this tutorial we look at using Sprites, that is animated images or textures, in your love 2d application. We look first at simply drawing an image on screen. We then learn how to use a Quad, so we can have multiple images or sprites in a single sheet or atlas. Finally we look at the various draw options for setting position, scale, origin and more.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWNU7NHavyI
The Wicked Engine a open source cross platform C++ based game engine just got DX12, Vulkan and raytracing and path tracing support. Check it out in action in this video.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/06/29/Wicked-Engine-Gets-DX12-And-Vulkan-Raytracing-Support.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4sDIaIcFo
This is a quick look at a Blender add-on that enables you to quickly use 2D tilemaps to create simple 3D maps in Blender.
It is available for download here:
https://chemikhazi.itch.io/sprytile
It is available on a name your own price model.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSlpQvdL7Qo
There is a new Humble of interest to game developers, specifically Roblox developers. It's the Build Roblox Games bundle by Zenva.
Links
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/build-roblox-games-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/build-roblox-games-humble-bundle-by-zenva/
The above link contains a code that enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMyc7MU-xEM