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With the recent pricing changes at Unity which have not been well received several developers are now actively searching for Unity game engine alternatives. The following is a quick rundown of suggestions, source code availability, 2D or 3D functionality and a link to learn more about that engine. As you …
Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 release including incremential improvements to the engine’s rendering and lighting capabilities, improvements to the build process and new experimental features including a skeletal animation feature and new support for VDB …
It is time for the September 2023 Unreal Engine asset giveaway. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and September is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, that are yours to …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the WW2 Military asset bundle. The Bundle is for Unreal Engine (here is a guide to use Unreal Engine assets in Unity, Blender and Godot) and offers high quality and game ready WW2 weapons, tanks and environments from Graybite, …
The Solo Indie Game Dev Essentials is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers featuring game development courses from GameDev.TV. The bundle contains courses for the 3 major game engines, Unity, Unreal Engine as well as the Godot game engine. Additionally artists are not being forgotten as it …
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It is time for the August 2023 Unreal Engine asset giveaway. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and August is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, that are yours to …
Epic Games have just released Cropout, a free sample for Unreal Engine developers showcasing how to create a casual style RTS game. The project is implemented entirely in Blueprints, requires the use of Unreal Engine 5.2.1 or higher and showcases how to use several new UE features to create a …
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Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3 preview. Being a preview release this of course means that you do not want to consider using this in a production environment. Highlights of the Unreal Engine 5.3 preview from the Unreal Engine forums: Unreal Engine 5.3 continues to refine the workflows …
One of the very worst parts of working with Unreal Engine is the need to work with the Epic Games Launcher. The Launcher is slow, confusing and often consumes far more resources than it should. You do however require it if you want to install Unreal Engine, download and manage …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Unreal Engine Mega Pack Humble Bundle. This bundle contains a wide variety of very high quality 3D assets for 3D environments from Hivemind. The assets are redeemed on the Unreal Engine marketplace via the Epic Game Launcher. While …
