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Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs - article updated based on responses from Unity (it's not looking great) gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unit…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Planning on moving from #Unity to #godotengine? Last year I wrote a guide "From Unity to Godot: Game Objects and Components in Godot?"
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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.alfredbaudisch (Alfred Reinold Baudisch)
A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.
Godot - godotengine.org
Defold - defold.com/
FNA - fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - libsdl.org/
SFML - sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - armory3d.org/
ogre3d - ogre3d.org/
Renpy - renpy.org/
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.Godot Engine
The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/the-…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unit…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/game…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mike from Gamefromscratch has published a video covering the Liblast project.
Yes - THAT Gamefromscratch.
- unfa
#Gamefromscratch #Gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #Liblast
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...YouTube
New blog post: Ten years of Capture the Flag
blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/08/16…
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.rubenwardy (blog.rubenwardy.com)
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!Humble Bundle
#gamedev #indiegame
Solo Indie Game Dev Essentials Bundle
This comprehensive curriculum of online courses from GameDev.tv will help you jumpstart your solo indie dev ambitions! Your purchase supports One Tree Planted.Humble Bundle
Learn to make no-code games with GDevelop and Fanatical
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The summer #FediverseJam has ended! Thank you everyone who participated. Ill be running these semiannually and we should get more and more people each time
You can check out the entries here: itch.io/jam/summer-fediverse-j…
And you can post your game over on the playmygame community on programming.dev if you want to get some more players
Ill be doing a stream monday at around 7pm ET playing the games that have been submitted if you want to stop by to chat with me in realtime
So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>
May I ask that you Boost this post so people can find us at mstdn.games ? 
We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.
#VideoGames #TTRPG #Streamer #DnD #GameDev #Twitch #LGBTQ #LGBT
Mastodon Games
We are a gaming-focused space on Mastodon. We welcome everyone who enjoys any type of gaming - it doesn't just need to be video games. Let's build a diverse and inclusive community together!Mastodon hosted on mstdn.games
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
If you're not aware of the Black Game Developer Fund (I wasn't!), hey, now you are. This is rad! blackgamedevfund.com/apply/
Yo #GameDev folks, maybe spread this one out a bit? I know very little about the fund itself / I can't vouch for it or anything, but more options to choose from is better than less when it comes to funding.
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Apparently, there's a Fediverse game jam coming up in a month!
If you ever wanted a reason to work together with some of the cool artists/composers/devs that you've met on the fediverse, this could be a good excuse!
itch.io/jam/summer-fediverse-j…
#FediverseJam #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev #godotengine #gamejam
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...itch.io
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
If anyone is interested I've started up a Godot community on lemmy for those who are migrating from reddit!
Feel free to join and show off your stuff as people start moving over to it 😀, weve got a showoff thread where you can showcase your current work or you can make a separate post for it
(You can see the posts from right here on mastodon as well, just search for the url above in the search bar (with https:// in front of it))
#godotengine #godot #gamedev #lemmy
I'm wondering, if more people play the Erra: Exordium on Steam Deck, will it affect the time game verified?
EARLY ACCESS store.steampowered.com/app/122…
#gamedev #indiedev #gaming #pixelart #indiegame #GamingNews #gamingcommunity #indiegames #gamedevelopment #steam #steamdeck
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.store.steampowered.com
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.Humble Bundle
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...Fanatical
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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?Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The level editor update for Kandria is now live on all platforms!
Get Kandria on Steam kandria.com/steam Itch kandria.com/itch or on our webzone kandria.com
#indiedev #gamedev #opensource
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.kandria.com
Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Learn to Make Survival Games with Unity
We’ve teamed up with Zenva Academy for our newest bundle of courses. Learn to make survival games like Rust, Valheim, and ARK 2 with Unity. Pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
New Liblast development update!
Liblast is an open-source multiplayer FPS game made with Godot 4.
#Liblast #GameDev #IndieDev #IndeGame #Godot4 #GodotEngine #Godot #FPS #multiplayer #online #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #unfa
Liblast dev update 2023-02-14 (a libre Godot 4 multiplayer FPS game)
Liblast is an open-source multiplayer FPS game created with Godot 4 game engine and a completely open-source toolset.Get the game here: https://codeberg.org/...YouTube
Remember #GameDev you should program games in C++ (the language of Sony and Microsoft) and not Linux 🤣💀
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Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate
Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
WRITERS AND CONTENT CREATORS OF MASTODON! 📣
Our #gamedev team at Whales And Games will be making announcements for our exploration-trading #indiegame Townseek really soon, and we're looking for writers and content creators to add to our list and to help cover the big news! We're very excited! 🙌
If you're interested, please either send us a direct mention or reply to this post! And if you know anyone you think would be open to covering Townseek, feel free to suggest them to us as well! ✨