IMHO, Autodesk Sketchbook is one of the best digital drawing applications out there, especially if you have a tablet such as a Microsoft Surface. Well, it just got a whole lot better, as Autodesk just made the product free as well!
Theres no in app purchases or other gotchas... well, except one. You need to create a free Autodesk account within 7 days to continue using it, but that's a pretty fair trade in my view! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w49C-f33Xsg
The Khronos Group just announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3 specification, with NVIDIA and AMD releasing drivers (AMD being beta) day one, as well as other industry leaders like ARM adding their commitment.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/vulkan-1-3-specification-released/
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This week in game development is a quick recap of news and events in the world of game development for the week ending August 14th, 2016.
Stories mentioned in this recap are available here.
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/08/14/This-Week-In-GameDev-August-14th2016.aspx
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Unity Technologies have released a new version of the Unity game engine, Unity 2020.1. Let's jump in and take a look at what's in this release.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/07/23/Unity-20201-Released.aspx
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SHMUP Creator is a brand new ?game engine? launching today on Steam. It's a Windows based game creator for creating SHMUP or Shoot'Em Up style games and provides all the tools you need to create your own top or side scrolling shooter.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/shmup-creator-launched-on-steam/
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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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A quick recap of the news and events in the world of game development. The stories in this video are available here:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/10/17/This-Week-In-GameDev-Oct-172016.aspx
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Today it was announced the Epic Games lead a $15M round of funding for Manticore Games, the makers of the Core platform. The Core Platform is a game creation platform built on top of the Unreal Engine. In this video we will discuss the investment and Core iteself and ask if this is the future of gaming/social media?
Link:
https://gamefromscratch.com/epic-games-lead-15m-round-of-funding-for-manticore-games/
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2D IK/FK bone based animation tools are becoming more and more common in the animation world, and especially for game developers. The process of Cut Out Animation, or COA, can be a huge time saver, bringing a 3D animation process to the labour intensive 2D animation world.
Links
Spine -- https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/04/25/An-Introduction-To-Spine-A-2D-Bone-Based-Animation-System.aspx
Creature -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uBk5NJJLlo
Dragonbonez -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKBxgZ6zvE
Synfig -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlv7O5w8Wc
Animate CC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZr8tOUe5Bg
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Unreal Engine's 2019 GDC keynote just wrapped up. This is a 12 minute condensed summary focused on game developers, focusing on the new announcements and details in the GDC keynote, including the new mega grants, physics system, 4.22 release with faster C++ compile times, hot reload via Live++ and more.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/03/20/Unreal-Engine-GDC-2019-Keynote.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXEAHkPNeY