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.
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https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/02/27/Affinity-18-Released.aspx
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Substance Painter 7.3 has been released by Adobe (and Substance Painter 2021 was updated on Steam), with two major new features, Warp and Cylinder projection, as well as an updated colour picker.
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https://gamefromscratch.com/substance-painter-7-3-released/
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There is a new Humble of interest to game developers, the Learn Game Development for Beginners bundle by GameDev.tv. It's got a really good selection of courses for beginners including Unity, Unreal, Construct 3, Blender, Drawing, Math, C++ math and more.
Links
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learn-game-development-for-beginners-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/learn-game-development-for-beginners-humble-bundle/
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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This is a quick hands on video of the CopperCube game engine. Coppercube is a commerical game engine aimed at easy 3D game development, running on Windows and Mac and targeting those plus HTML5 and Android.
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Today we are checking out the ct.js 3.0 game engine, a 2D game engine for Mac, Windows and Linux.
It is free with the source code available on GitHub under the MIT license. It also contains everything you need in one place, uses a relatively simple JavaScript API and should be an appropriate 2D game engine for beginners or teachers.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/ct-js-3-2d-game-engine/
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Ink is a programming language, or more accurately a piece of middleware and entire ecosystem, use to create the narrative side of your game. If you need to have branching dialogs, variables and game engine integration, Ink could be a good choice for you. In addition to the Ink language, there is also the Inky IDE for creating game dialog, as well as several other tools and options for write the contents of your game world.
There are also plugins for most popular programming languages like C#, C++, Rust, Haxe and more as well as game engine integrations for Godot, Unity, and now Unreal Engine 5.3 thanks to The Chinese Room, who just released Inkpot.
The entire ecosystem is completely free and open source, generally under the MIT license. The Inky IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, while plugins for Visual Studio Code, Atom Editor, Emacs and more also exist.
If Ink isn't your thing, you can also check out Twine that we covered earlier.
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Our Twine Coverage:
https://gamefromscratch.com/twine-interactive-fiction-tool/
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Unity have just released a new HDRP based demo, a small segment of a game showing a spaceship under attack, powered entirely by the new Visual Effects Graph. In this video we first look at the demonstration in it's entirity, then look at the project file behind it.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/08/21/Unity-Release-Spaceship-Visual-Effect-Graph-Demo.aspx
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Totally not Xenko, nor Paradox... nope, we are now Stride! Stride is an open source C# powered 3D game engine. It isn't new though, in fact this video is abo...
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There is no arguing that 2023 was a rough year at Unity, a year that resulted in the removal of long time CEO John Riccitiello. He was replaced in the interim by former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who made massive and sweeping changes to Unity. It doesn't appear he will be remaining as Unity CEO however, as ex-Zynga COO Mathew Bromberg has been announced as the new CEO of Unity.
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