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Dekogon Townscape Essentials Unreal Asset Humble Bundle

The Dekogon Townscape Essentials – 2000+ Unreal Engine Assets Humble Bundle. This bundle is a collection of Unreal Engine 5.x assets that all redeem on the Epic Games Marketplace from Dekogon, although unfortunately they are redeemed one key at a time. While this is an Unreal Engine asset bundle, you […]

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Godot 4.3 Released

The first major release of the Godot Game Engine of 2024 (Godot 4.2 was released in November 2023), Godot 4.3 is jam packed with new features. In fact, this release contains almost 3,500 commits since 4.2, with contributions from over 500 contributors! Highlight new features of the Godot 4.3 release […]

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SDF – The Future of 3D Modelling

SDF, Signed Distance Fields or Signed Distance Functions are a relatively new approach to computer graphics. Described on Wikipedia as: Let Ω be a subset of a metric space X with metric d, and ∂Ω be its boundary. The distance between a point x of X and the subset ∂Ω of X is defined as usual asd(x,∂Ω)=infy∈∂Ωd(x,y), where inf denotes the infimum. The signed distance function from a point x of X to Ω is defined byf(x)={d(x,∂Ω)if x∈Ω−d(x,∂Ω)if x∉Ω. In much simpler terms, […]

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Tree3D Procedural Tree Add-On For Godot

Tree3D is a Godot Extension (implemented via GDExtension) for Godot Engine 4.1 or higher that is used to create procedural trees. If you do not wish to build the extension from source, there are precompiled Windows binaries available here. The project is open source, implemented in C++ and released under […]

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Marvel Snap Developer Moving to Godot Engine

The developer of the popular Unity mobile title Marvel Snap, have just announced they are using the Godot game engine for future game development. In addition they have invested in Godot based company W4Games (learn more). Details from Venture Beat: Second Dinner said it will invest in W4 Games and it will also […]

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Game UI Database 2.0

We first covered the Game UI Database in April of 2023 and at the time it was one of the single best resources for game UI/UX designers, with a massive database of game user interface elements. Today, Game UI Database 2.0 has been released, a massive (ironically enough) user interface […]

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Unreal August 2024 Asset Giveaway

It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for August 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and August is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, […]

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Deluxe Dev Dreams 3D Unreal Engine & Unity Humble Bundle

The Deluxe Dev Dreams 3D Unreal Engine & Unity Mega Bundle Humble Bundle is a collection of 4000+ high quality assets by Meshingun Studio. They are redeemed directly on the appropriate store (Epic Market Place and Unity Asset Store), although be sure to notice: IMPORTANT: Due to upcoming Unreal Engine […]

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Godot, Unity and Unreal Engine Blender Add-On Review

As part of the Blender Markets Essential Game Modding Toolkit Humble Bundle, today we are looking at three of the game engine related add-ons available in the bundle. These include Blender to Unity, Blender to Unreal as well as the Blender to Godot 4 Pipeline add-on. Blender to Unity Blender-to-Unity is […]

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Humble Games Shutting Down Humble Bundle Unaffected

In a rather stark tweet, Humble Games announced they would be “restructuring”: In these challenging economic times for indie game publishing, Humble Games has made the difficult but necessary decision to restructure our operations. This decision was not made lightly; it involved much deliberation and careful thought, with the goal […]

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Leartes Studios Unreal Unity and Godot Mega Flash Sale

There is a new bundle of interest to game developers, the Leartes Studios Unreal | Unity | Godot Mega Flash Sale Humble Bundle. This is a huge collection of 3D assets for Unity, Unreal Engine and for the first time ever directly for the Godot Game Engine as well! Not […]

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Adobe DOJ Lawsuit Un-redacted

On June 17th, 2024 the US Department of Justice filled a lawsuit against Adobe over their business practices, specifically their early cancellation fees and the difficulty customers face when attempting to cancel their Creative Cloud accounts. The initial filling was heavily redacted (PDF Link). Today however, the redacting has been […]

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Retopoflow 3 For Blender Review

Retopoflow is an extremely popular Blender add-on for doing retopology and it is currently available in Blender Market Humble Bundle (learn more). This was the most requested asset to do a follow-up review on from the Bundle, so that is exactly what we have done in this video. Details of […]

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Evergine 2024 Release

The Evergine Engine ( the game engine previously known as Wave Engine) just released their first update of 2024 and it’s got several new improvements. Highlights of the Evergine 2024 release include: We are committed to addressing the most important feature requests from the industry, and this new version of […]

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Clip Studio Paint and Poser 12 Humble Bundle

There are two new bundles of interest to game developers, the Creativity Collection: Paint, Draw, Illustrate Humble Bundle which would probably be better called the Clip Studio Paint bundle. This bundle contains a one year subscription to Clip Studio Paint as well as several brushes, models, panels and more. The […]

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Godot Block Coding Plugin

There is a new visual programming language for the Godot game engine implemented in the Godot Block Coding plugin. This plugin adds a “Scratch-like” Lego brick programming system on top of Godot. While early on, it has a lot of potential and could be a good beginners language for many […]

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The Ultimate 3D Creator’s Bundle

The Ultimate 3D Creators Humble Bundle is a bundle of 3D assets, HDRI maps and training courses from 3 different creators, Action VFX, MattePaint and Double Jump Academy. The 3D models are available in OBJ, FBX and Maya formats, while the HDRI maps are in EXR format. The Houdini/Unreal training […]

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Godot Powered Action Game Maker Engine

The creators of Pixel Game Maker MV and RPG Maker have announced a new game engine, Action Game Maker and this one is being built on top of the Godot open source game engine. This is ultimately a replacement for Pixel Game Maker MV (or PGMMV) although it will not […]

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GB Studio 4 Released

GB Studio, the free and open source retro game engine for creating GameBoy style (in fact… GameBoy ROMs!) games have just released GB Studio 4. It provides everything you need to create a game from art, level and music creation tools to an intuitive game programming interface. Available for Windows, […]

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Blender Auto-Rig Pro Available FREE — Today Only

As the final day of the ongoing Blender Market 10th anniversary they have been giving away free Blender add-ons. In the final day they have perhaps the best giveaway yet, the immensely popular Auto-Rig Pro! Auto-Rig Pro is described as: Auto-Rig Pro is an addon for Blender to rig characters, […]

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Adobe Update Their Terms Of Use …Again

Adobe set of a firestorm of user backlash when they forced users to agree to their updated terms of use for popular products such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator. In those updated terms of use was some massively overreaching language that seemingly allowed Adobe to use users Creative Cloud […]

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GDevelop 5.4 Released — Adds Multiplayer Support

The easy to use cross platform open source game engine GDevelop just released GDevelop 5.4. There are several new features in this release, but by far the two biggest are the addition of an easy to use multiplayer solution, as well as a rework of the game engine’s variable system. […]

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US DOJ Sued Adobe Over Scummy Business Practices

It hasn’t been a great month for Adobe… a firestorm started in response to Adobe Terms of Service Updates which lead to “the final straw” for many Adobe users who cancelled their subscriptions. Many of those that went to cancel their subscriptions got a rude surprise of rather copious cancellation […]

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Unreal Engine and Unity Mega Bundle

The Unreal Engine and Unity Mega Bundle on Humble is a collection of 3D environments from Hivemind. While the assets are in both Unreal Engine and Unity formats, they can be exported to work in other game engines like Godot or in general 3D applications like Blender, check the guides […]

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Adobe Alternatives in 2024

Due to recent events there are a number of Adobe users currently looking for alternatives. Today we look at several alternatives to the following Adobe products: Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance Painter/Designer, Animate and Premiere/After Effects. Without further ado, here are several alternatives to Adobe products in 2024: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator […]

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Bosca Ceoil Blue

Today we are checking out Bosca Ceoil Blue, a port of Terry Cavanagh’s ( VVVVV, Super Hexagon, Dicey Dungeons ) beginner friendly music creation software. Bosca Ceoil was released for free several years ago (we covered it five years back) and was originally written using Flash. We are discussing it […]

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Epic Games Release 500+ Free AAA Quality Game Animations

Epic Games are the kings of free stuff, from their monthly giveaways to today’s announcement, 500+ game ready motion matched game engines for Unreal Engine 5.4. Back at GDC 2024 during the State of Unreal they announced they would be releasing this library of animations: Animation takes big strides forward […]

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Blender Market 10 Days of Blender Asset Giveaways

The Blender Market just turned 10 and to celebrate their 10th anniversary they are giving away a free asset for 10 straight days. The first days giveaway is the hugely popular RetopoFlow 4 Alpha. RetopoFlow is described as: RetopoFlow is a full retopology mode for Blender that helps make quick work of creating […]

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Affinity Products 50% Off in Flash Sale

Recently Adobe outraged their customers with an update to their terms of service and an attempt to clarify things doesn’t seem to have helped much. Well just like when Unity self destructed over the run-time fee, it’s competitors were quick to take advantage of the discord. It seems the same […]

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Godot TileMap Replaced with TileMapLayers

In the move from Godot 3.x to Godot 4.x one of the few regressions was support for 2D tiled maps. Since the 4.0 release however, several features are being reintroduced to bring Godot up to parity with the older versions. In the upcoming release of Godot 4.3 (currently in Beta1) […]

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Visual Studio Code May 1.90 Update Released

The popular code editor Visual Studio Code just received it’s monthly upgrade. In the May update (formally Visual Studio Code 1.90) the follow new features were added: Key Links Visual Studio Code 1.90 Release Notes Visual Studio Code Homepage Visual Studio Code GitHub Repository You can learn more about the […]

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ct.js Game Engine Gets New Catnip Visual Scripting Language

The ct.js game engine we first covered back in 2020 then revisited in 2023 has advanced a great deal since then. Catnip is a free and open source 2D game engine available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Since we last looked at Ct.js they have released version 4.0 with several […]

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Unreal June 2024 Asset Giveaway

It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for June 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and June is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, […]

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001 Game Creator Humble Bundle

There is a new Humble Bundle for game developers, the awfully named Royalty-Free Game Creator STEM Bundle. This is basically a bundle containing the 001 Game Creator game engine and several DLC packs for creating other genres of games such as Visual Novels and Point and Click Adventure games. As […]

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Helix Code Editor

In a similar vein to NeoVim today we look at the Helix text editor. This is a terminal based code editor heavily inspired by the classic Vi/Vim text editors using a nearly identical control set while including more features out of the box than most of the other Vim alternatives. […]

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Export From Unity to Unigine in Seconds

There is a new set of plugins that make it super easy to move your game assets from the Unity game engine over to Unigine. Details of the new plugins from the Unigine blog: Key Links Unity Importer for Unigine JSON Exporter for Unity Asset Humble Bundle Used in the […]

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Choosing Your First Game Engine

When just starting out in game development, one of the hardest and most immediate decisions you will have to make is “What Game Engine Should I Start With?”. Of course, as the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know, making it almost impossible to make such a decision […]

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Visual Studio 17.10 Released

This week at their BUILD developer conference Microsoft have released Visual Studio 17.10. Highlights of the 17.10 release include: Key Links Visual Studio 17.10 Release Notes Visual Studio Homepage You can learn more about the Visual Studio 17.10 release in the video below.

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Fyrox 0.34 Rust Powered Game Engine

The Fyrox open source game engine written using the Rust programming language, just released Fyrox 0.34. This release is actually pretty jam packed with new features including: Key Links Fyrox Homepage Fyrox 0.34 Release Notes Station Iapetus GitHub Project You can learn more about Fyrox and the Fyrox 0.34 release […]

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Reblium – Unreal Engine Power 3D Character Creator

Today we are looking at Reblium, a new 3D character creator powered by Unreal Engine similar to MetaHuman, but working entirely on your local PC. If you have ever created a character in a video game you have an idea of how to use Reblium. Right now it is in […]

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25 Game Engines in 25 Minutes

Today we are going to take a look at 25 different game engines in 25 minutes (ok, 28 minutes…). The only criteria to show up on this list is the engine is primarily 3D and has a world or level editor. If there is interest we may do a similar […]

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Low Poly Game Dev Humble Bundle

There is new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Low Poly Game Dev Bundle is a collection of low polygon game assets from Eldamar Studio and AnimPic Studios. The AnimPic assets are for Unreal Engine and Unity but can easily be exported to other game engines, the Eldamar […]

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GameMaker in 2024

GameMaker just outlined new features coming to the seminal game engine GameMaker in 2024 and there are some pretty massive changes on the horizon. Highlight new features coming to GameMaker include: New Code Editor This is actually already available in the GameMaker beta (check it out in action here). This […]

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Instant Realistic Lighting in Godot

Out of the box the lighting system in Godot doesn’t give amazing results. In fact, out the box the lighting system in the Godot game engine ONLY works in the editor, which can be more than a bit confusing for beginners. Thankfully we have an in-depth lighting tutorial that will […]

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Unity CREATE Head Marc Whitten Resigning

The last major player in the entire Unity run-time fee fiasco, Marc Whitten, head of Unity CREATE (the division responsible for the Unity game engine) has announced his resignation. Marc was famously the person who stepped forward to apologize for the entire fiasco and may or may not have been […]

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Visual Studio Code TODO Management

We recently did a video about making Godot more organized featuring a plugin that handled TODO and FIXME comments automatically. I was asked “What about if I work in Visual Studio Code?” which is probably the most popular code editor today. Therefore we today are going to be looking at […]

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Epic Environments Mega Humble Bundle

The Epic Environments Mega Bundle is now live on Humble Bundle. This bundle contains mostly 3D environment assets from FreshCan3D but also contains a few 3D characters from Yarrawah. The environments are a mix of Unreal Engine and Unity assets, however using the links below you can easily export them […]

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Make Godot Engine More Organized with TODO Manager

A follow up on our earlier discussion on how to improve the Godot game engine (by making it prettier), today we look at another handy plugin that makes Godot more organized. If you are used to littering your code with TODO or FIXME type comments, this handy add-on helps you […]

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NVIDIA ChatRTX – Easy Local Custom LLM AI Chat

NVIDIA ChatRTX is a recently released demo enabling you to easily build a customized LLM that runs locally on your own machine, assuming it is using Windows and running a compatible NVIDIA card (a 30 or 40 series card, or earlier with 8GB+ of RAM). The key features of ChatRTX […]

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e-on VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog Now FREE

The e-on software developed VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog CG applications have just been made completely free. VUE is an application for creating virtual worlds and landscapes similar to Gaea or Terragen, while PlantFactory is more akin to SpeedTree. Owner Bentley Systems have decided to cease development on these applications and […]

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