It's that time of the month for Unreal Engine Developers.... Unreal Christmas in June is here. 5 free assets for the Month of June, plus one more added to the permanently free collection.
A rundown of all the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021 deals for game developers. Links may contain an affiliate code that pays GFS a commission if used (and thanks if you do!).
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/black-friday-2021-for-game-developers/
Unity Black Friday Event: https://assetstore.unity.com/?aid=1011l4rAy
If you are interested in picking up a laptop specifically for game development, be sure to check out our guide available here https://gamefromscratch.com/choosing-a-laptop-for-game-development-in-2021/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc7T03Se4AY
Some people were asking when the Godot keynote was going to happen at GDC. The answer is probably... never. These GDC keynotes cost money... lots and lots and lots of money. This is a problem for open source projects.
There have however been several developments of Godot of late, so I did a mini keynote of sorts to get you up to speed on the world of Godot. Please note, none of this was done in an official capacity... it's just a fun little video to draw attention to recent developments at Godot while it's under the massive shadow of GDC!
Links:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/03/21/Godot-GDC-2019-Keynote-That-Wasnt.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6gCOxcTt4
Character Creator 4 has just been released by Reallusion. Making 3D game ready characters gets even easier... just be careful with that license!
Link: https://gamefromscratch.com/character-creator-4-released/
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Creating a Character
1:30 Applying Morphs / Changing Your Character
2:58 Pose Tools
3:35 Adding Animation
5:21 Facial Expressions Editor
7:00 Make-Up and CRASH!
8:10 Character Creator 4 Overview
9:30 What's New in CC4
11:52 License Details and Gotcha
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8Fx0rraLU
RiderFlow is a new tool for Unity developers, that makes it much easier to handle Unity scenes from JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, CLion and Rider IDEs. It gives you finding, bookmarking, code editing and refactoring tools in the Unity editor. We check all these functions out in action in the video. Oh, and it's free.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/riderflow-for-unity-by-jetbrains/
Mentioned in video (and highly recommended) Script Inspector 3:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535?aid=1011l4rAy
https://gamefromscratch.com/script-inspector-3-hands-on/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5UjWClUAE
You know the game engine Core I JUST TALKED ABOUT... yeah, well a day later they launched a contest... not the greatest timing, but it's a chance for artists to win money, sign McGee stuff, an evil doll and potentially a portfolio review by creating Alice themed art in Core.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/05/01/Core-And-American-McGee-Launch-Art-Contest.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO8tz4RXwPc
In this part of the ongoing Haxe and HaxeFlixel tutorial series we look at handling mouse input. We look at two methods, polled and event driven.
The text based version is available here:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2017/04/06/HaxeFlixel-Tutorial-Mouse-Input.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a3w3rCScao
Adobe have just acquired the 3D graphics Medium application/team from Oculus. A key component of their future 3D content creation strategy, specifically VR.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/12/06/Adobe-Acquire-Oculus-Medium.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzJw3IjKFk
Unity Asset Store are selling 400 assets on Monday for 50% off. In the week leading up to Black Friday/Cyber Monday, they are selling an individual asset each day for 70% off. In this video we look at those assets for sale.
Links
https://assetstore.unity.com/g/black-friday?aid=1011l4rAy&utm_source=aff
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/11/25/Unity-Black-Friday-Sale-Begins.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbYoeRTIyh4
Valve just updated Steam Play with a new technology called Proton, which is a custom implementation of WINE, for running Windows games on Linux (and potentially Mac), while enabling D3D11 and Direct3D 12 apps to translate to Vulkan.
The underlying technology Proton is open source and available on Github.
Links:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/08/21/Valve-Proton-Run-Windows-Games-On-Linux-Using-Steam-Play.aspx
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j5dYRG3wJI