The Spartan Game Engine is an open source C++ based 3D game engine created by Panos Karabelas. Panos is a professional game developer working on rendering technology Codemasters. The Spartan engine is his personal playground for experimenting with game engine and rendering technology. The code is well architected and incredibly …

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Today we are going hands-on with PopcornFX by Persistant Studios, a cross platform particle creation system with several game engine ready runtimes, including Unreal Engine, Unity and Lumberyard, although unfortunately only the Unreal Engine runtime is available at this moment. Features of PopcornFX include: cross platform, with the editor running …

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Unity are currently running their Mega Bundle X, a bundle of assets to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Unity Asset Store. One of the standout assets on the bundle is Script Inspector 3, an asset that once you’ve used it you wonder why this functionality isn’t included in Unity …

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microStudio is a game engine that runs entirely in your browser and makes it incredibly easy to get started creating 2D games, with a polished, well designed, comprehensive and documented set of tools. You can start as easily as going to microStudio.dev in your browser, clone an existing or create …

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The Drag[en]gine is a highly modular, open source (C++) game engine that has been under active development for several years. The Drag[en]gine’s modular approach is built around the GLEM concept breaking your game project into the Game Script, Launcher, Engine and Modules layers. The Game Script is implemented by default …

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In the next part in our going look at key extensions in the Unity Game Dev Humble Bundle, today we are looking at Peek from Ludiq. In previous features we have looked at UModeler and Clayxels if you are interested in learning more. Peek is a powerful add-on the greatly …

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The Castle Game Engine is a pretty unique option. It’s a long running open source 2D/3D game engine for Pascal and Delphi developers with a recent emphasis on improving the editing experience. Hand and hand with the Castle engine is the Lazarus IDE and the open source Pascal implementation Free …

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Currently featured in the Unity Game Dev Humble Bundle as well as being 50% off on the Unity Asset Store, Clayxel is an asset that extends Unity to add support for modelling then animating clay-like 3D objects. Clayxels is described on the Store page as: Clayxels is an interactive volumetric …

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Today we are taking a look at the open source cross platform 2D/3D C++ based Lua-powered game engine Echo. While Echo is very much it’s own engine, it has a very Godot vibe in the way your game scene is organised, taking a node based approach to game development. The …

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Mixamo Character Animation Combiner is a powerful tool for combining animations and characters from Adobe’s Mixamo and exporting the results in GLTF or GLB formats in just a matter of seconds. The results are game ready and can immediately be imported into the 3D tool or game engine (I used …

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