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The team behind Cellar Door Games has released the source code for their popular Roguelite indie hit «Rogue Legacy», which came out 10 years ago. Note that this is not an open source project, the source code is released under a non-certified OSI license, and the release does not include assets from the game. However,…
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Developer Turánszki János has updated and released a new version of his 3D engine Wicked Engine. Version 0.71.595 adds coplanar blending mode, baked mesh with skin, orthogonal camera mode. The hair particle sprite sheet now supports rectangles of any size, via a simple selector. Terrain grass will now generate in more distant areas if the…
Humble Bundle is offering a new bundle at a bargain price with the somewhat odd name “Learn Squared Presents: Concept Art in Unreal Engine bundle,” which is of interest to game developers. It’s a collection of video courses on concept art, as well as VFX, Unreal Engine, Filmmaking, Substance Designer, and more. Like most Humble…
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NeoAxis has released a new version of its general-purpose NeoAxis Engine, designed for creating games and applications. This release has improved the API for creating add-ons, as well as improvements to the store and vehicles. The store now has many new pre-made vehicles and fence constructors. Improved prefab editor and vehicle editor. Prefab editor now…
The browser-based game builder Rosebud AI has left the closed beta testing stage. With this simple and clear tool, anyone can register and try to create their own games based on the HTML5 Phaser framework, so they can run in a browser window and on mobile devices.
This week, a new version of the open source HTML5 framework Phaser was released. This release allows for a seamless upgrade for any project using v3.85.x, and the developers strongly encourage you to do so if you have projects based on it. The latest version of Phaser includes important GPU memory fixes. The way render…
The open source and completely free 3D game engine O3DE (Open 3D Engine), formerly known as Lumberyard, which is a fork of CryEngine sponsored by Amazon and several other big companies, has recently been updated. This update can be considered a huge step forward in making O3DE accessible to the masses. The developers are trying…
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Version 2.20.1 of the Phaser CE open source framework has been released – this is a Community Edition variant that is no longer maintained by Phaser Studio and is instead looked after by the community. This version includes the following changes:Convases used for device capability and input testing are now created with willReadFrequently: true.Fixed a…
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It’s only been a month since the release of version 4.3, but the Godot engine developers have already accumulated so many nice little things in the PR queue that it was decided to release this build for testing and feedback. It consists of over 350 improvements! Many changes in this release are bug fixes that will be…
