Game Development News, Tutorials and More
The PlayCanvas HTML5 3D game engine just received a major update to the plans, adding major new features with no increase in price. The new plans:The major changes are:5-10x increase on storage for all tiers Free: 200MB → 1GB Personal: 1GB → 10GB Organization: 10GB → 50GBCustomize the loading screen – remove PlayCanvas branding Download […]
Today we are looking at the game engine/framework combo WebGLStudio, an entirely browser based game engine with a complete visual editor. Key features of WebGLStudio include:A full 3D graphics engine (LiteScene.js) that supports multiple lights, shadowmaps, realtime reflections, custom materials, postFX, skinning, animation, and much more. An easily extended, component-based system for controlling the rendering […]
Cesium, the makers of Cesium Ion and the open source CesiumJS open world data technologies have just announced they received an Epic Megagrant. This will enable them to create Cesium for Unreal Engine, a free and open source add-on for Unreal Engine that will enable developers to use their 3D Tile world data in games […]
Welcome to another NewsFromScratch game development news round-up. Today we have 2 different game engine releases, a new asset pack from Kenney.nl, as well as an update to AssetForge.DiligentEngineDiligent Engine is a cross platform rendering framework that abstracts away the complexities of dealing with OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX and Metal APIs. This new release adds Vulkan […]
Today we are checking out Ct.js, a cross platform open source 2D game engine/editor. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Ct.js is a surprisingly full featured and easy to use game engine with a modular full level editor, easy programming and excellent documentation. It’s source code is available on GitHub under the MIT open source […]
It’s simply amazing the amount of free software available these days for game developers, and SculptGL is no exception. It is a 3D sculpting application similar to ZBrush, Sculptris or Mudbox, but it runs entirely inside your browser (or locally via Electron if you prefer). Features from SculptGL include:Sculpting tools Standard tools : Brush, Inflate, […]
Introduction Welcome to the first part of a multipart tutorial series on creating games using the Haxe programming language with the Heaps graphics engine. Heaps is under development by Nicolas Cannasse, the guy that created the Haxe language in the first place. In his own words: Heaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed […]
The following is a collection of tutorials showing you how to use the Superpowers HTML5 game engine. Superpowers is an open source collobaroative game engine with Typescript and experimental Lua support. Part One – Getting Started In this tutorial we setup the Superpowers engine, launch a server and create our first project. […]
HTML5 Game Engines ImpactJS Cost: 99$ www.impactjs.com Melonjs Cost: Free http://www.melonjs.org Akihabara Cost: Free http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/ Construct 2 Cost: Free / 79$ / 365$ depending on options http://www.scirra.com/construct2 Cocos2D-HTML Cost: Free http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki/Html5 Cocos2D Javascript Cost: Free https://github.com/RyanWilliams/cocos2d-javascript Crafty Cost: Free http://www.craftyjs.com GameQuery Cost: Free http://www.gamequeryjs.com IsoGenic […]
