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Turánszki János updated and recently posted version 0.71.624 of the Wicked Engine 3D game engine. The new version features texture streaming improvements, improved ray tracing in shadows, improved underwater effects when the camera is partially underwater, and added Lua functions: IsThisEditor(), ReturnToEditor(), IsThisDebugBuild(). HDR calibration value has been added, and various minor fixes and optimizations…
godot-rust is a GDExtension extension (also available as a GDNative implementation for Godot 3.x) that brings the Rust programming language to the open source Godot game engine. Rust is a good alternative to GDScript with various tradeoffs for users. While GDScript allows for fast prototyping and short feedback loops, larger-scale games can benefit from a…
Gaijin Entertainment is pleased to release the full code for one of its multiplayer frameworks, the Dagor Engine, under a permissive license, along with art assets from a sample multiplayer game. The company has also released a set of two demos showing how the same map, created for one of Gaijin’s unannounced games, runs on…
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Are you a parent who loves making games or introducing your kids to game making? Check out the Buildbox for Parents series on the Buildbox game maker blog. It’s full of fun tips and ideas to help you bond and make game projects with your teens. Read here.
The Phaser Editor tool, provided by the developers of the HTML5 Phaser framework, has been released. It will please developers with settings panels, keyboard shortcuts, JetBrains IDE support, a built-in web font loader, and much more. A new feature allows you to load web fonts directly from the editor’s resource pack editor, making it easier…
The Mirror project team, which has been trying to create an open alternative to Roblox and Fortnite since 2022, has announced a major change – the project will no longer be built on the free and open-source Godot game engine. There is no single reason for the engine change, it is a combination of factors,…
Just five weeks after releasing the 5.5 preview build at Seattle Unrealfest, Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5.5. The new engine is packed with new features, including vastly improved animation tools. The headline feature of Unreal Engine 5.5 is the new experimental MegaLights, which are described as a nanite for lighting. MegaLights is a…
