After the annus horribilis that was 2023 and with the rough start that in many ways characterized 2024, it's probably f…
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The GameMaker 2024 developer roadmap was just released. Adding prefabs, plugins, Javascript and maybe C# support
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From GameFromScratch.com
GameMaker just released beta 2024.400 for Windows, Mac and Linux with an all new integrated Code Editor 2 option.
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From GameFromScratch.com
How old does a game have to be before it becomes "retro"?To answer that, of course, we need a working definition of the…
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Technological progress once swept games into the retro bin within a few years, but no longer – publishers must learn about how to support, not destroy, their older titles | Opinion | GamesIndustry.biz
Last year saw a major update to the Flutter Casual Games toolkit. This week, Flutter made its debut at the Game Developers Conference (GDC)…
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TLDR: Flutter made its debut at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, showcasing the progress made in building games with Flutter. Over 15,000 new mobile games have been developed using Flutter in the last year. Flutter offers advantages for 2D casual games, such as being open-source, having a rich plugin ecosystem, and supporting cross-platform deployment. The future of Flutter game development includes expanded resources, smoother deployment on various platforms, and exploration of 3D capabilities.
The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.18 with a host of new features including Direct3d 12, Vulkan and much more.
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They arrived today, safe and sound.
But it's still sitting on the floor where I left it.
Godot Foundation have just announced a 3 way partnership with Google and The Forge to improve the Vulkan mobile renderer on Android.
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From GameFromScratch.com
Godot may be getting a new Global Illumination system in Godot 4.3 replacing the just added SDFGI with the new HDDAGI solution.
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The Epic v. Google lawsuit was just decided by a jury trial and it was a massive win for Fortnite maker Epic Games.
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I've been pulling out all the stops.
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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From the No-Shit-Sherlock Dpmt .
E3 now officially belongs to the past as the Entertainment Software Association has announced the end of the long runni…
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W4 Games, the Godot focused development company which just received an additional $15M in funding, just announced pricing for W4 Console. W4 Console is described as: W4 Consoles is a middleware software that serves as a technology layer, enabling seamless portability of games across multiple target ...
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She went to the store and asked the clerk, "Do you have any chicken broth?" He replied, "Sorry, we're out of stock."
The Visual Studio Code November update was just released brings a few awesome and long requested features to the popular code editor.
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If you read the review, you can use them in Godot with a bit of tweeking. He goes over it.
Only Stallman fanatics and newly minted Open Source/Free Software initiates are that pedantic about it.
Someone used the wrong tool for the job. If an awk script gets more than a few dozen lines, it's time to use another language/tool to process that data.
I've been hearing this debate for nearly 32 years. It's a useless argument.
The correct name for the # symbol is "octothorpe," but how many people do you know who call it that? You'll either hear it called the Pound sign (by us older folk) or the more modern Hash mark.
The fact is, Linux is both a kernel AND an OS.
Everything old is new again.