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The Toy Engine was just released yesterday. The Toy Engine is a cross platform modular C++ open source game engine currently available under the GPL license. The engine is quite young so you should expect some instability and missing features. The developer @HugoAM has been very responsive to feedback and has announced that the license […]
Toy Engine–Thin C++ Game Engine Released Read More
When I started GameFromScratch, by far and away the most common question I got was “what programming language should I use?”. It’s amazing how much the world has changed in the last decade! These days game engines are by far more important than programming language to the majority of developers, and one game engine has […]
Why Not Just Use Unity? Read More
GameMaker is a seminal game engine, with roots dating back to the late 1990s. It is a cross platform 2D game engine with tools that run on Windows and Mac machines while capable of targeting both desktop operating systems as well as Ubuntu Linux, Android, iOS, UWP, HTML5, XBox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. GameMaker […]
A Closer Look At GameMaker Studio 2 Read More
There are several game engines out there that present a code free option such as Stencyl and Construct. Today we are looking at an open source alternative, GDevelop. It is a cross platform, open source 2D game engine with a visual programming interface that requires no previous experience. However there is also the ability to […]
A Closer Look At GDevelop Read More
One of the major advantages to working in 3D is once you have your character modeled and rigged, creating new animations is simply a matter of defining a series of poses on a timeline. Animations are generally defined by moving a series of bones controlling your mesh, which in turn are powered by a […]
An Introduction To Spine–A 2D Bone Based Animation System Read More
In this Closer Look At we are going to be taking a closer look at the SFML framework. The Closer Look At series is a combination of an introduction, overview and getting started tutorial that is designed to help you quickly decide if a game engine/framework/library is right for you. SFML stands for Simple […]
A Closer Look at SFML Read More
Gamefromscratch has a long running series taking an indepth look at various game engines available. Today we are going to look at the Godot game engine, an open source C++ based game engine with a complete Unity-esque world editor. Godot runs on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms and can target all of those, plus […]
A Closer Look at the Godot Game Engine Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Now that we have Cocos2d-x installed and configured and our project created, we are going to take a look at basic graphics operations. This tutorial assumes you ran through the prior part and created a project already. I am going to assume you have a working […]
Cocos2d-x Tutorial Series: Basic Sprites, Positioning, Parenting and Coordinate Systems Read More
Now that Project Anarchy is out, I’ve decided to take a look at what you actually get. If you’ve never heard of it before, Project Anarchy is a collection of Havok game development tools made available completely free for mobile developers. In this post, we will look at exactly what those tools are composed […]
A closer look at Project Anarchy Read More
As you may know, if you want to publish on MacOS or on any iOS devices, you need to use an Apple computer. This can represent a rather large expense to many Indie developers ( no, I am not going to get into the ancient Mac price war argument! ). What if you want […]
Pay as you go Macintosh development? A MacInCloud.com review Read More
