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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 …
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 […]
CocosCreator, a free Cocos2d-x powered cross platform game engine, just released a version 2.4.0. If you are interested in learning more about Cocos Creator, check out our complete Cocos Creator tutorial series available here.Details of Cocos Creator 2.4.0:This update brings more new features, optimizes performance and improves stability. Efficiency is everything! This version contains many […]
Pixelbox is a brand new all-in-one 2D game engine perfect for game jams or other small projects. Combining an easy to use JavaScript API with a complete set of editing tools including a map editor, sprite tools, palette tools, sound FX and music tools in a single >60MB download. Pixelbox is open source under the […]
In this chapter of our ongoing Game Engines by Language series, today we are going to look at the game engines, both 2D and 3D, available for JavaScript. If you are interested we have already created versions for C++, C#, Lua and the Haxe programming languages. Keep in mind, only engines/frameworks still under active development […]
With CopperCube 6 recently being made available in a free form, we decided to do a complete tutorial series over on devga.me that should get users up and running creating complete 3D games using CopperCube in well under an hour.The series consist of:Getting Started Creating a Terrain Creating a Camera Programming Your GameCollisions and PhysicsExtending […]
A brand new tutorial series just went live on devga.me (to join the existing Armory 3D series), the Cocos Creator Crash Course.The series currently consists of the following tutorial parts:Cocos Creator Tutorial Series homepageIntroduction and Getting StartedCreating a SpriteIntroduction to Cocos ScriptingDebuggingHandling InputSound and MusicAnimationThere are a few more tutorial chapters in active development. The […]
Welcome to the getting started tutorial in the ongoing BabylonJS Tutorial Series. Today we are going to look at creating our first simple Babylon application setup and running. As always there is a HD video version of this tutorial available here or embedded down below. To get started with BabylonJS, we need a […]
The following is the table of contents for the complete BabylonJS tutorial series here on GameFromScratch. It covers (or will cover) all aspects of game development using the BabylonJS open source HTML5 3D game engine. Table Of Contents series introduction getting started cameras lights materials 3d models coming soon Videos YouTube Series Playlist Miscellaneous a […]
One of the challenges with prototyping games is finding assets to work with. Simple boxes are fine, but if you are working on a game with animations this proves a bit more challenging. Therefore I created a simple sequence of spritesheets you can use in your game. The package includes an idle, walk cycle, […]
