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If you’re interested in JavaScript game development, why not try making a memory game using Phaser and React? This tutorial will walk you through the process, showing you how to integrate the two technologies to create an interactive matching game. Read the tutorial here
Emanuele Feronato is back with a new tutorial on creating a tiled platformer with slopes and no physics engine in the HTML5 Phaser framework. You’ll learn how to write a basic platformer in the style of the retro game «Jet Set Willy» without using a physics engine. And how to implement slopes in it. You…
Welcome to another fun game programming video tutorial. In this video, you will learn how to create a real-time multiplayer «Connect Four» game using the powerful Phaser 3 framework and Playroom Kit.
Comrade GGBotNet offers for download and free use under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license a new font «Vyaz Pixel Font». This font contains 4 styles, 477 glyphs and supports 45 languages. Perhaps this font will be useful when creating your game. Details and download option are here.
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…
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 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.
4 years after the previous release, Marmoset Toolbag 5 has been released. It is essentially an all-in-one tool for 3D artists, texturing, rendering, etc. It is available for Windows and MacOS with a 30-day fully functional trial (email address required). New features include: Details and download option – here.
Phaser Studio has released version 4.5.1 of the Phaser Editor for the Phaser HTML5 framework. This is a major release of the Phaser Editor, addressing several high-priority issues. The developers also took the opportunity to update the editor to work with the latest version of Phaser, 3.86. You can download Phaser Editor 4.5.1 from the…
If you are a user of the free RayLib game development framework with bindings for almost every programming language, lots of examples, and support for most major ones, then you will be interested in Raylib Project Creator. Raylib is a versatile game programming toolkit, but what has always made it stand out is how easy…
