The Evergine game engine just got a big upgrade, with the 2023.9 release they added Metal 3 rendering, iOS support, morph animations support, MAUI, .NET 8.1(?!?!) and more. If Evergine is new to you, you may have once known it as Wave Engine. It's an interesting C# powered game engine aimed at VR and industrial use, but quite obviously you can use it to make games too. It is a free game engine, with only support and source code access costing money.
It's that time of year again, Steam's summer sale is on, time to open the wallets and stock up on programs we will probably never load again! As always, I take a look at the key sales of interest to game developers, art tools, game engines, etc. I maintain a list of items and links to more info if available here:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/06/21/Steam-2018-Summer-Sale-For-Game-Developers.aspx
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Allegorithmic announced today at GDC that Substance Alchemist is now available in open beta for Substance Subscibers. We also get an update on the Adobe acquisition and the future of subscriptions and perpetual licenses.
Link
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/03/19/Substance-Alchemist-Enters-Open-Beta.aspx
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RPG In a Box is a cross platform (windows, mac, linux) voxel based all-in-one game engine for creating RPG style games (build on top of the Godot game engine) and you can (soon!) get it for free. Between Dec 1st and Dec 7th it is the featured free 'game' on the Epic Game Store. In this video we go over how you can get it for free and do a quick hands-on with the RPG in a Box game engine so you know what you're getting.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/get-rpg-in-a-box-for-free/
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Today we are checking out Blender Cloud, an online platform subscription for Blender users supporting the Blender foundation. It gives you access to a huge number of models, files, textuers, environment maps, tutorials, scenes and more. There is currently a first month free promotion going on. In this video we look at what you get with Blender Cloud and show how to configure the included Blender Cloud plugin and get textures directly from Blender.
Links
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/04/09/Blender-Cloud-Free-Month-Trial-And-Hands-On-Preview.aspx
https://cloud.blender.org
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Key members of the Godot leadership, including the founder/lead developer as well as the project coordinator, have just announced the formation of a new company W4 Games. This is a company formed to develop Godot commercially, in ways the open source project is currently ill suited, specifically adding console support.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-leadership-form-new-company-w4-games/
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CCG Toolkit is part of the February Unreal Engine content pack. It enables you to create card games like Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone using the Unreal game engine. In addition to card game tools, it provides all the blueprints you need to create multiplayer or AI CCG.
Link
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/02/02/Inside-CCG-Toolkit-For-Unreal.aspx
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Blender Code Quest is resulting in rapid and massive changes to Blender, and this one is going to perhaps be the most galvanizing of them all. Changes to the blender hot keys!
This video looks at what's changed and how it will affect your workflow. It also takes a quick look at the new single column panel layout.
You can download daily builds of Blender 2.8 here:
https://builder.blender.org/download
While you can read about the keyboard changes and their current implementation progress here:
https://developer.blender.org/T55162
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It's that time of the month... free stuff time! Every month Epic Games gives away a half dozen free assets from their Unreal Engine marketplace and this Sept is no exception.
Link
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/09/01/Unreal-Engine-Free-Marketplace-Assets-September-2019.aspx
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The Rust based open source game engine Fyrox just released version 0.34 and this release has a ton of HUGE updates in it. If you are looking for a Rust powered 2D/3D game engine with an editor, Fyrox is probably your choice.
In the 0.34 update we have things like
- hot reload
- multiple scripts per object
- project exporter
- asset previews
- much more
So in this video we take a look at the Fyrox game engine generally and at what's new in the Fyrox 0.34 release specifically.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/fyrox-0-34-rust-powered-game-engine/
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