Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding

Taking a firm stand against what Unity have been doing, Terraria developer Re-Logic announced today they've begun funding Godot Engine and FNA with a big donation and ongoing funding.

Unity Considers Tentative Changes To Controversial Policies

In the ongoing saga of changes with Unity's revenue model, Unity seem set to make some changes but not a full reversal so here's the latest.

Unity apologises for the new runtime fee, say they will make changes

After leaving developers furious for nearly a whole week after the recent announcement of making developers pay for game installs, Unity put up a fresh statement.

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Unity attempt to clarify new install fees as developers revolt

The saga with the Unity game engine continues, after their completely botched announcement of a new fee system game developers will need to pay.

Here's some alternatives to the Unity game engine

In the wake of Unity setting everything on fire with their new revenue model for developers, here's a reminder on what other game engines and tech is out there for developers to look into.

Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs

Unity Technologies have announced an overhaul to their fees for game developers, which now includes tracking game installs and revenue.

From Unity to Godot: Game Objects and Components in Godot?

Learn how to contextualize Unity's concepts of Game Objects, Components and Prefabs in Godot with Nodes, Scenes, Node Trees and Scene Trees.

Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.

The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund

The same day that Unity confused all their developers with a new pay per user install revenue model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine just announced their new Godot Development Fund.

Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs

Unity Technologies have announced an overhaul to their fees for game developers, which now includes tracking game installs and revenue.

Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers

Ethan Lee, otherwise known as flibitijibibo (really rolls off the tongue huh), who created FNA and has ported a ton of games to Linux, macOS and more has announced a new game maintenance service for developers.

LIBLAST - Godot 4 'Unreal Tournament' Like Open Source Game Project

Liblast (Libre + Blast) is an interesting open source project for creating a Team Fortress like game using the Godot game engine, as well as all FOSS game cr...

Ten years of Capture The Flag

CTF is a PvP game made using Minetest. This article covers the history of CTF, the lessons I learned, and the changes I made along the way.

Fantasy and Sci Fi essentials for Unity

This treasure trove of sci-fi and fantasy assets will bring your Unity game project to the next level! Pay what you want and support Alzheimer's Research UK!

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Want to make games but don't know how to code? The free and open source GDevelop is a great cross-platform tool with an events-driven system.

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Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help

With Godot Engine moving over to being supported by the Godot Foundation directly, they've begun pushing for people to support their efforts via their new funding platform inspired by Blender.

AMD opens up the FidelityFX SDK and it's now on GitHub

Helping game developers integrate various AMD FidelityFX technologies into their games, AMD yesterday open sourced the FidelityFX SDK.

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Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

Summer Fediverse Jam

A game jam from 2023-07-14 to 2023-07-30 hosted by Ategon. Welcome! Welcome to the summer fediverse jam! This is a nine day game jam over the course of two weekends + a set of weekdays where you need to make a...

SDL 2.28.0 released and goes into maintenance mode, now focusing on SDL 3

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a ross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware used by a great many companies and SDL 2 is now pretty much finished.

Save 10% on Erra: Exordium on Steam

Erra: Exordium is a 2D action adventure game in Dieselpunk setting. Explore a world based on Sumerian-Akkadian mythology. Take the role of a scientist who was able to cheat death and fight the rebellious army of mechatrons.

This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch.

Polygon Assets by Animpic Studios

We’ve bundled a massive collection of versatile and lightweight low-poly assets for game development! Featuring medieval, wild west, survivor themes and more.

All-In-One Game Maker 2D Assets Packs | Software Bundle | Fanatical

All-In-One Game Maker 2D Asset Packs here’s a giant bundle of new totally original quality 2D assets from the talented...

AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK adds Linux support

One for game developers here and anyone tinkering around with graphics APIs, as AMD has announced the next upgrade to their Render Pipeline Shaders SDK and now it has Linux support.

Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023

The Linux Game Jam 2023 is happening and a good chance for you to blow the dust and clean away the cobwebs from your development environment and perhaps come up with the next big hit?

Godot Engine 4.1 to get FSR 2.2, better 3D support for OpenGL, shader improvements

Seems like the next update for Godot Engine is going to be a nice one for game developers, with multiple graphics enhancements on the way.

Blender 3.5 is out now with fancy new hair

Continuing to show how great open source is, the Blender team have released Blender 3.5 with some really fancy new features.

Kandria on Steam

Explore a ruined open world of caverns and settlements. Hack and slash your way through missions: patrol, repair, scavenge - choose your quests and dialogue.