YoYo Games, creators of the popular GameMaker game engine, have just been sold to Opera. Opera is best known for their web browser of the same name. YoYo games was previously owned by gambling company Playtech and according to this Gamasutra article, was just sold for $10M, a loss of …

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Beepbox is a free online tool for quickly generating music via sketching. It’s written in a combination of JavaScript and TypeScript with the source code available on GitHub under the very permissive MIT license. Getting started with Beepbox is as simple as going to the website and starting to lay …

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The Godot game engine recently released a developer update of their Web export development progress. This blog post discussed some of the upcoming features of the new WIP web exporter, including work to support GDNative on the Web, which would be a huge step forward. Of perhaps more interest though …

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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AudioMass is an open source browser based audio editor in the same vein as Audacity, designed to run in the browser but to not behave like a typical web applications.Features of AudioMass include:Loading Audio, navigating the waveform, zoom and pan Visualization of frequency levels Peak and distortion signaling Cutting/Pasting/Trimming parts of the audio Inverting and [...]

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Thanks in part to a $50,000 award from the Mozilla foundation, the Godot game engine is gaining the ability to be run in a web browser.   You can try it out right here if you have the latest version of a Chrome based browser, or Firefox Nightly.Explanation for the rationale for Godot in a Browser [...]

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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 [...]

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Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online.  Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map [...]

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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular cross platform open source code editors available today and for good reasons.  It’s fast, free, expandable and incredibly well supported.  Have you ever wanted to run Visual Studio Code remotely or perhaps host it as the editor in your own cloud based product?  Well now [...]

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