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JetBrains, the maker of popular cross-platform commercial IDEs like IntelliJ and Resharper, has unveiled free versions of two of its IDEs, Rider and WebStorm. Rider started out as a .NET-focused IDE, but has evolved into a game development-focused product with native support for Unity, Godot, and Unreal Engine programming. WebStorm is a web-focused IDE for…
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Falco Software Inc. has made available for free download the source code for the 2D game “Falco Sand Tetris”, which is developed on the basis of the free Falco Engine. This is a variation of the famous puzzle “Tetris”, in which the figures are made of grains of sand, which scatter according to physics after…
Epic Games has finally launched Fab, its new online marketplace for its Unreal Engine, Unity, and other game engines, as well as various DCC tools like Max, Maya, and Blender. Fab was first announced at GDC 2023 and is a unified marketplace of the various marketplaces that Epic Games already controls, including the Unreal Engine…
The Humble Bundle service is currently offering a new bundle of interest to 2D game developers called “Design with Corel Finish With AI Software Bundle” containing a collection of applications for artists. The main one among the included applications is the latest version of Corel Draw 2024 Standard Edition, which is not a subscription, but…
In his latest collaboration with The Gnomon Workshop, Kosuke Iwasaki dives deep into the art of lighting, composition, and storytelling with a free Unreal Engine 5 tutorial using the Secrets of the Luminara Kit 3D asset set from KitBash3D. Kosuke Iwasaki is a generalist at DNEG and a UE5 expert. Check out this guide to…
Lead the bees to victory in the sweet honey filled “Honey Snap” game app that will keep you wanting to play again and again. “Honey Snap”, besides sounding like a delicious breakfast cereal, is an exciting new game developed on the open source Phaser framework by Black Moon Design. The gameplay is simple and familiar…
Heading to G-STAR in Busan this year? Make the most of your time by joining WN Connect on November 15, 2024. This year, WN Connect has partnered with Meridian Play, a gaming consultant and accelerator focused on Asian markets, for an evening of casual networking and meaningful conversations. To enhance your experience, the exclusive WN…
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The QSP text adventure/interactive literature interpreter and editor is available in version 5.9. The new version adds tuples (consisting of several other values), SCANSTR operators for parsing a string into tokens, SORTARR for sorting arrays, and CUROBJS for getting the code for adding the current list of items. They added the ability to write comments…
Not long ago, an update to version 18.1.0 of the open-source Butano game engine was released, allowing you to make 3D/2D games for the Game Boy Advance portable retro console. The new version added new functions and variables, optimized some existing ones, reduced ROM usage for color palettes, sprite tiles and sound control, added a…
The popular open-source alternative to Adobe Illustrator/Affinity Designer, Inkscape, has just been updated to version 1.4. It is a great vector graphics application available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The toolkit has received several new functions, among which the following can be highlighted: Download from the official resource. There are also update details there.
