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Electronic Arts have just open sourced an incredibly handy tool for developing and debugging GLSL and HLSL shaders – ShaderToHuman. This is a (development only!) tool that essentially provides 2 features… C PrintF style text output and a minimalistic ImGui-like UI layer. This makes it easy to display debug information […]
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The popular Rust-powered game development framework Bevy just released Bevy 0.18, the first release since Bevy 0.17 in October 2025. The popular game engine added the following features in the Bevy 0.18 release: Be sure to check out the full release notes for more details and other features added in
It’s time for another Epic Games FAB Game Development Marketplace game asset giveaway for Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot and more. You have from January 13th until Jan 27th, 2026, to claim the assets for free. Once claimed they are yours to keep forever, and the assets can be exported for
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Nicolas Cannasse, the creator of the Haxe programming language and founder of Shiro Games, just released a new tool – Pico GPU. He described it’s release with the following tweet: Sometimes the easiest way to learn something is to strip away all the complexity and focus on the basics. That
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The Folded Paper Engine is a very interesting project, similar to UPBGE in that it allows you author games almost entirely in Blender. The major difference here, your game is exported as a specially marked up GLTF file and is then finished and compiled using the open source Godot game
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Friction is a powerful, lightweight and cross-platform open-source 2D animation package, similar to Adobe Animate or After Effects. Friction is a fork of the now abandoned ENVE project(learn more) that is rapidly approaching the 1.0 milestone release. It has come a long way since being forked from ENVE and is
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All the way back in 2018 with the release of Blender 2.80, the built in Blender Game Engine was removed. Thankfully the idea of an all-in-one game engine and creation tool has been kept alive by the UPBGE team. They just released a milestone version, UPBGE 0.50, which brings UPGBE
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SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer just released SDL 3.4. SDL is one of those foundational game development frameworks that takes care of all the low level details such as window creation, input handling, joystick management, image loading and more. Many other game engines actually make use of SDL to provide
The MonoGame C# game development framework, the spiritual successor to Microsoft’s XNA framework, just received a huge boost in the form of a large donation and ongoing financial support. The donation is from ConcernedApe, the creator of the indie smash hit Stardew Valley. Details were announced on the MonoGame twitter
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It is the final Epic Games Unreal Engine Fab asset giveaway of 2025 or the first giveaway of 2026, depending on how you want to look at it! You have from December 30th until Jan 13th, 2026, to claim the assets for free. Once claimed they are yours to keep
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