The Generous Space of Alternative Game Engines (A Curation)
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The pursuit of platform agnosticism is a way of reclaiming power constantly lost to the game industry's drive to maximize profits.
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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The pursuit of platform agnosticism is a way of reclaiming power constantly lost to the game industry's drive to maximize profits.
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The 2D engine is now free for non-commercial use on all non-console platforms and has introduced a new one-time fee catered towards hobbyists and indies.
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GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 23, 2024
Sony seems to be building a mobile games platform for free-to-play games. This is according to tech site TweakTown , which spotted a job listing for a mobile platform architect.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
GameFromScratch.com RavEngine C++ Game Engine RavEngine is an open-source cross platform C++ 23 based 3D game engine for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and more. It is considered an early alpha and should not be used in a production capacity.
Game From Scratch
DECEMBER 2, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Rust Powered Bevy Game Engine Release 0.15 Almost 5 months after the previous release the open-source Rust powered cross-platform 2D/3D data driven game engine/framework Bevy just released Bevy 0.15. release in […] The post Rust Powered Bevy Game Engine Release 0.15
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CCP Games, developer of Eve Online, has announced that its Carbon Development Platform is now open source. Players and developers can use the resource to create titles for free. Read more
Game From Scratch
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.5 Released The cross platform source available 3D game engine Flax Engine just released version 1.5. This is a fairly significant upgrade on the Flax Game Engine, which released v1.0 The engine has come a long way in a short period of time. back in December 2020.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
GameFromScratch.com The Jolt Physics Engine The Joly Physics Engine is a cross platform physics engine that powers the game Horizon Forbidden West. The reasoning behind the creation of the Jolt Physics engine was as follows: Jolt just released Jolt Physics 4.0, It is open source under the MIT license.
Unity Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
With the recent release of the Meta Quest 3 headset, Unity tools for cross-platform mixed reality development on the device have moved from experimental to fully supported in the Editor’s 2022 LTS.
Awesome Tuts
DECEMBER 18, 2022
It’s also the language Unreal Engine, arguably the most popular game engine in the world, uses too. However, there are some differences between the traditional C++ programming software developers use and C++ that is used in Unreal Engine to create video games. C++ Variables In Unreal Engine. Variables In C++.
Logic Simplified
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Game From Scratch
MAY 16, 2023
GameFromScratch.com JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Development The Rider IDE from JetBrains is increasingly becoming their go to IDE for game developers, with Unreal Engine, Unity and now Godot Engine support.
Game From Scratch
JANUARY 11, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Learn Unreal Engine with GameDev.Tv Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Learn Unreal Engine with GameDev.TV As the name implies, this bundle is a collection of video courses (on the Teachable Platform) from GameDev.tv
AWS Games
JUNE 15, 2023
Epic Games (Epic) is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of Unreal Engine (UE), one of the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools that powers some of the world’s leading games including Fortnite, and is also utilized by creators across industries to deliver cutting-edge experiences. NET Framework 4.6.x
AWS Games
JUNE 28, 2023
In this article we’ll show you how to build an Unreal Engine game with full support for the AWS Graviton processor. We show 42% cost savings with the Graviton instance for the same performance, 22% more throughput and a 20% lower price than on x86 cores with an Unreal Engine-based game, Lyra Starter Game.
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 13, 2023
Based on the designer’s vision and in tune with the game’s visual style the platform generates a base character. According to Jim Franzen , CMO at Didimo, the platform allows for an increase in digital characters in a game. “We One interesting AI driven solution is the character creation tool Popul8 by Didimo.
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 24, 2023
There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Motion Capture (2D, 3D, LiveLink) Real-time Rendering One of the standout Unreal Engine features is its support for real-time rendering.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 16, 2024
Silent Hill: Ascension was developed in Unreal Engine utilising the platform's MetaHuman Creator. Comprised of 22 episodes, the series followed a choose-your-own-adventure style narrative with story outcomes decided by viewers. Read more
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 1, 2024
for developers that release eligible Unreal Engine games on Epic Games Stores at the same time as other mobile, console, or PC platforms. Epic Games will drop its royalty fees from 5% to 3.5% Read more
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Bond is now Xbox president, overseeing Xbox hardware and software platforms, including "player and creator experiences, platform engineering, strategy, business planning, data and analytics and business development," Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer explained in an internal memo.
Game From Scratch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
GameFromScratch.com The Future of C# in Godot With several Unity developers moving to the Godot Game Engine the C# language support in the Godot engine just became much more important for future developments.
Unity Blog
AUGUST 15, 2023
The Unity Editor and Standalone Players now provide cross-platform support for HDR output and full compatibility with the Universal and High Definition Render Pipelines.
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Unity 6 has been released across mobile, PC, and console, as well as other platforms, including extended reality. Read more
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox RAFA Racing Club has acquired the online racing community service platform, Grid Finder. Read more
GamesIndustry.biz
JULY 30, 2024
Web-based mobile distribution platform Dotplay has secured $1 million in a pre-seed funding round. Led by venture capital firm Transcend Fund, the investment will be used to develop its platform further and expand its core team of developers and engineers.
GamesIndustry.biz
JULY 3, 2024
As announced earlier this year , the company is planning to make its proprietary Carbon Development Platform – which encompasses the studio's Carbon Engine and other technology – an open source property, giving other developers their chance to get to grips with the same tools behind CCP's flagship title.
iXie gaming
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
As the world goes digital, the diversity in platforms and devices that users interact with has significantly increased. Well, it implies that cross-platform compatibility testing is more critical than ever. Well, it implies that cross-platform compatibility testing is more critical than ever. Enhanced user experience (UX).
Unity Blog
JANUARY 19, 2024
Unity game developers can now make mobile games accessible to iOS and Android screen readers with the launch of Mobile Screen Reader support, available from Unity 2023.2 Tech Stream and above. This is the first of many runtime features slated to enhance gamer accessibility.
Awesome Tuts
JANUARY 2, 2023
Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. This tutorial is meant for beginners as well as experts in Unreal Engine. You can check out the Parasite Platformer tutorial by clicking the link below: Create A Parasite Platformer Game In Unreal Engine. Before we begin one note.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Game Developers Conference organizer Informa released its annual State of the Games Industry survey today, giving a window into developer experiences and attitudes on a variety of subjects, including layoffs, generative AI, unionization, and on which engines and platforms they're making games.
Cocos
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Platform support : Google Play : Initial support added (not yet complete, to be finalized in future community releases). Migu Platform : Added support.
Cocos
JANUARY 12, 2024
Mini-Game Runtime In China, many popular mini-game platforms, such as WeChat, Douyin (TikTok), QQ, and Kwai, have opted for Mini-Game Runtime technology architecture rather than the traditional H5/Webview as their runtime environment. Rich content sources, compatible with mainstream H5 engines all over the world. WebAssembly support.
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds. Because the fee is based on the number of installs—not monetization like Unreal Engine—developing free-to-play titles is at risk of suddenly becoming much more costly.
Cocos
MARCH 19, 2024
This works on android platfrom on window OS but does not work on iOS platform on the mac OS. I suspect cocos dashboard is not reconizing the custom cocos2d-x engine source. link] [link] [link] GitHub GitHub - cocos/engine-native: Native engine for Cocos Creator v2.x x Native engine for Cocos Creator v2.x.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 29, 2024
Ultimately, we decided to create our custom physics engine, using NWH Wheel Collider as a base for collisions and writing every part of car physics from scratch. Developing our own engine was challenging, requiring extensive testing and iteration, but it was crucial for delivering the racing experience we envisioned.”
AWS Games
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Multiplayer games platform CrazyGames engages more than 35 million players around the world with browser-based titles such as Ludo King and Paper Delivery Boy in 24 different languages. Since then, the platform has grown organically and now hosts more than 3,000 games spanning different genres. Plus, there’s a huge risk reduction.
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 5, 2023
Game Pass has been beloved, Xbox Series X is a superb piece of console hardware, Series S is an unprecedented marvel in terms of bang-for-buck performance, and from Phil Spencer down, the company's execs and spokespeople have perfected the art of making all the right noises to make game consumers feel good about the platform. Read more
AWS Games
JANUARY 16, 2024
In this blog, we will dive into the significance of load testing a game backend, and how AWS for Games partner, Pragma , successfully load tested one million concurrent users (CCU) on their managed game backend platform that runs on AWS. Pragma Engine runs in two modes.
Game From Scratch
JUNE 18, 2024
Released — Adds Multiplayer Support The easy to use cross platform open source game engine GDevelop just released GDevelop 5.4. GameFromScratch.com GDevelop 5.4 Released — Adds Multiplayer Support appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Developed by game designer Zach Gage and engineer Orta Therox, Puzzmo is a platform for original daily newspaper games and puzzles, such as SpellTower, Typeshift, Flipart, and Cross|Word. Hearst Newspapers has acquired puzzle games hub Puzzmo. Puzzmo launched in October 2023 with a limited number of keys being released daily.
GamesIndustry.biz
JULY 10, 2024
Pixelberry – which is perhaps best known for its choose-your-own-adventure-style game, Choices: Stories You Play – will act "as the pillar for Series' strategy to build out its studio system and deliver a diverse catalog of games across several genres".
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 15, 2024
Now the two companies have launched Lego Islands in Fortnite, a platform that allows anyone to use Lego assets to create games within Fortnite Creative or Unreal Engine For Fortnite, provided they stick to Lego's family-friendly rules. Read more
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Released The Evergine (previously known as Wave Engine) engine just released version 2023.9. This version represents a fairly significant upgrade as it adds a Metal renderer and iOS as a target platform. The Evergine game engine is free to use, with commercial support and source code licenses available.
Logic Simplified
APRIL 1, 2024
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