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«The Rise of the Golden Idol» is a 2D detective game with an original visual style, in which you uncover the truth behind 20 different crimes from the 1970s. It is developed on the basis of the open-source Godot 4 game engine by the game development team Color Gray Games and published by Playstack. You…
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…
Recently, a new 2D fan game «Fatal Fury Vs Street Fighter» was made available for free download, developed for PC Windows on Ikemen GO (compatible with MUGEN 1.1 Beta), a popular open source engine used to create 2D fighting games. The game features characters from SNK’s «Fatal Fury» fighting game series and Capcom’s «Street Fighter»…
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.
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…
WN Conference Xiamen’24 will be held in Xiamen on November 21-22, bringing together top leaders for exclusive networking, deal-making, and the latest insights shaping the gaming landscape. Join the leaders of the gaming industry! Check out the program, which includes sessions from industry experts: The networking kickoff party is November 20. Try your luck in…
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On December 2, 2024, join game developers from around the world in the bustling capital of Thailand (Bangkok) for WN Summit Bangkok’24, an exclusive gathering for decision makers in the gaming industry. The event will be organized in partnership with Tencent Cloud, a cloud service owned by one of China’s largest tech companies. This summit…
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…
