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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…
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In this month (15 days) the designer of the game GameMaker is released 25 years! И на днях YoYo Games Ltd. GameMaker released version LTS 2022.0.3. The new principle increases stability and the ability to control the IDE and средах выполнения. A built-in Bug Reporter has been added to the LTS. This will make it…
As we reach the 25-year mark, GameMaker is looking forward to continuing to evolve with the needs of its community. New tools, features, and updates are on the horizon that promise to make the engine more powerful and accessible than ever before. At the top of the list is the upcoming GMRT, which is currently…
A six-part series on recreating the classic dot-eating game is now available on YouTube. YouTuber and programmer Simple Coding Tutorials has been posting a series of tutorials over the past few months on recreating the classic game “Pacman” in the open-source HTML5 framework Phaser 3. They’re currently at Part 6, and you can follow along…
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,…
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Developer FrankenGraphics has recently updated NEXXT Studio, a tile editor that lets you work with graphics for and in the style of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, to version 3.1.0. This update features a few more fixes, as well as some new minor additions. Some hotkeys have been changed, and new hotkey combinations have been…
Foundry, a software developer computer graphics software such as the NUKE family, MARI, KATANA and others, has announced the closure of Modo with the upcoming release of version 17.1. Modo is a long-running 3D modeling application that was first released in 2001 by several of the developers of LightWave 3D. This strategic decision will allow…
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…
