Your Source for Game Dev News, Tools, and Trends
The DrUId framework for the open source Defold game engine has been updated to version 1.0. DrUId, as the capital letters suggest, is a user interface framework for the Defold game engine. The project is open source and released under the MIT license. It is a powerful component-based Defold UI framework that allows developers to…
Phaser Editor v4.6.0 for the HTML5 Phaser framework is now available for download. It introduces a long-awaited and powerful feature – a built-in Tilemap editor. The new Tilemap tools are directly integrated into the scene editor, allowing you to easily and efficiently merge Tilemap layers with game object layers. Watch the video and learn more…
Game developers will be interested in the new “Learn Unity Game Development 2024 Bundle” – a collection of courses on the Unity game engine from the guys from GameDev.Tv, offered at a bargain price on the Humble Bundle service. With it, you will learn how to make games, including turn-based strategies, 2D RPG, VR/XR projects,…
There is a new set on the Humble Bundle service that is of interest to game developers, the “Super Game Asset Bundle” from Leartes Studio. This package is a huge collection of over 7,000 ready-made game assets for Unreal Engine, Unity and Godot Game Engine. You can buy “Super Game Asset Bundle” profitably here.
Sonic Clean Engine (S.C.E.), a cleaned and slightly optimized source code of the game «Sonic 3 & Knuckles» for the 16-bit retro console Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, is offered for free download. This code has long been used to create projects «Hellfire Saga» and «Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Epilogue» and others. This source code…
The open source (MIT licensed) Rigodotify 1.1.0 Plugin for Blender takes a bunch of Godot/Unity-style skeletal rigs and makes them game engine compatible. Transform your 3D model before snapping it to your mesh, and your model is ready to animate for games. Bonus Rigify-based animal rigs for canine, feline, and equid bodies are included. Download…
The developers of Castle Game Engine have introduced a ready-made Steam integration into the engine. Now you can use the Steam API to get some information, manage achievements, etc. The integration only requires the Steam DLL/SO from Valve, nothing else. Works on all supported platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS. Works with all supported compilers: FPC, Delphi….
If you use the Aseprite pixel art drawing utility on Windows, macOS or Linux, you may need the “Go To” microextension, which provides the ability to search and jump to a layer, tag, frame, fragment or sprite. You can download it for free here.
The Buildbox game builder community has been surprising us by releasing mobile titles that are worthy of universal recognition. First, «Spooky Pixel Hero» by «AppSir Games» was featured as the “Game of the Day” on the US App Store. This Halloween-perfect retro horror platformer, made with Buildbox Classic, is a must-play if you haven’t tried…
CraftStudio game builder is no longer developed or supported by the Sparklin Labs development team. Now that the official servers are closed, you can download an archive to run CraftStudio offline from archive.org (or the official page). The latest version is 1.7.6.
