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Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has just released a new free tool Avatar Mixer. This joins the previous Mixer projects such as Ship Mixer and Creature Mixer on Itch.io. These tools allow you to rapidly (or completely randomly), create sprite graphics using a mix and match approach of existing assets. You …
Game Texture Viewer is a texture viewing and management application for game development that was just acquired by JangaFX and made available for free. If you are interested in trying out Game Texture Viewer, simply download the trial and activate with the product key: GPG7-33NS-KJ2K-CKGT. Game Texture Viewer is available …
PICO-8, the popular fantasy console, just launched the new completely free PICO-8 Education Edition. It is essentially the same version of PICO-8, except that it’s free and browser based. Here is the developer’s announcement tweet: PICO-8 is a very barebones virtual computer with a full set of tools for creating …
Today, Quixel who were purchased by Epic Games back in 2019, just released a free dynamic tree pack for Unreal Engine. More then just a simple collection of scanned trees and foliage objects, this pack contains a full season control system, dynamic wind and support for multiple LODs. This is …
Quixel Megascans Trees Released Free For Unreal Engine Developers Read More
It’s the first Tuesday of the month of October, so that means its time for another Unreal Engine asset giveaway. This month we have 5 assets free for the month, but nothing added to the permanently free collection. Generally when this happens, Unreal announce another free asset pack during the …
Agama Materials is a free application for Windows PCs that enables you to both create procedural materials using a node based approach like Substance Painter, as well as paint on 3D models like Substance Designer. It is simply a matter of creating a material, either from existing PBR textures, or …
Agama Materials — A Free Alternative to Substance Painter/Designer Read More
The Unity Asset Store is currently running a publisher sale for low polygonal model maker, Synty, which includes 3 free asset packs. To get the assets, simply click this link and add each asset to your cart. Before checking out enter the code SYNTY2021 and the price will be set …
Free Synty Assets + 50% Off Publisher Sale on Unity Asset Store Read More
In 2021 there are an amazing number of free (and often open source) alternatives to commercial graphics applications, such as Adobe’s suite (Photoshop, Animate, Illustrator, Premere, Substance and more) and other applications like Autodesk’s 3DS Max and Maya. The following is a list of freely (as in beer) available applications. …
Free Alternatives to Commercial Graphics Applications Read More
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway time. Available until the first Tuesday in August, the following free Unreal assets can be “purchased” for free in July, at which point they are yours forever. On the topic of forever, they also added …
Unreal Engine Free Marketplace Assets for July 2021 Read More
As we predicted several months ago when YoYoGames was acquired by Opera, a free version of GameMaker Studio has been released. We did a Closer Look at GameMaker several years ago, it is a long running 2D game engine that has been used to make dozens if not hundreds of …
