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The reasons to choose a laptop for game development are many, from a desire for portability or flexibility to the outright lack of availability of desktop GPUs. Whatever your reason, the number of options available have exploded over the years making the decision a more and more difficult one. That […]
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Midinous is an interesting audio tool for creating MIDI sequences that launched today on Steam. Midinous enables you to create songs easily by creating a sequence of notes on a grid, which can either be played using the built-in synth or as a MIDI control device for your DAW of
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After being in development since 2011, Bespoke is a new open source modular DAW or Digital Audio Workstation, that takes a different approach to music creation. Bespoke is available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux and the source code is hosted on GitHub under the GPL v3 open source
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As part of the ongoing Unity Fantasy GameDev Bundle on Humble, we are taking a look at key items in the bundle and today we check out Octave3D. If you are interested in learning about other assets in this bundle be sure to check out our Node Canvas, RPG Builder and ODIN Inspector coverage. Octave3D
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Today we are going in a hands-on review of nodeCanvas, a Unity plugin currently featured in the Unity Fantasy Games & GameDev Asset bundle on Humble. The Bundle is an amazing deal for Unity engine developers (and still a great one for non-Unity developers too) and you can learn more
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Today we are checking out RG3D, an open source Rust language powered game engine. We previous covered Rust game development a few years back, since then however a few new viable game engines have arisen such as BEVY and now RG3D. RG3D is open source, released under the liberal MIT
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LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar
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It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an
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We recently published our Easiest Game Engines guide which included among other engines the Construct 3 game engine. We did a review of Construct 3 all the way back in 2017 which is getting rather dated. Therefore we have decided to do a quick hands-on revisit of the Construct 3
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In our ongoing series of alternative game development capable programming languages, today we are checking out Nim. Nim is a cross platform, open source statically compiled programming language inspired by Pascal and Python with a splash of Haxe-like metaprogramming added on top. From the Nim homepage, Nim is described as:
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