Skybox AI is a free to use tool, powered by a modified Stable Diffusion, from Blockade Labs. It is used to create game ready Skybox textures from text prompts. Skybox AI is described as: The most recent release added several interesting new features: With Sketch mode, we’re introducing a new …

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LDtk, the Level Designer Toolkit (previously known as LeD) is a free and open source map editor from one of the creators of Dead Cells. LDtk has received several improvements since we last looked at it, including the addition of MacOS support. Another new recent feature is the addition of …

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Today Adobe have announced Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. In other words, this is Adobe’s answer to A.I image generators like DALLE, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (learn more about these 3 tools here). Adobe need to walk a fine line here as their …

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The popular open source drawing/paint application Krita has come a long way over the last few years, but using the add-on Shortcut Composer it can be made so much better. Shortcut Composer is a free and open source source extension for Krita written in Python that make several UI improvements …

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NVIDIAs popular physics middleware just released PhysX 5.1 and it is once again open sourced under the BSD 3 license. PhysX 4 was released under the same license, but with the initial announcement of PhysX 5 in 2020, it was only available as part of NVIDIAs Omniverse project (learn more …

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CLion is an IDE from JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ IDEA, Rider, Fleet, WebStorm and several other programming tools. While the recently released Fleet is aimed at Visual Studio Code, CLion is aimed more at the full version of Visual Studio, or more specifically Visual C++. It is built on …

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Inworld is an interesting new service using AI and machine learning to power NPCs. You define characters by giving them a variety of character traits (anger, excitement, etc.), define relationships between characters and locations as well as populate a knowledge database characters may or may not have access to. Then …

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On GameFromScratch we have covered dozens of programming tools, but today we are looking at the offspring of one of the oldest software applications still in daily use, Neovim. The great grand parent of Neovim is VI, a console based bare bones (compared to EMACS at least) text editor that …

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Scirra, the makers of the popular Construct 3 game engine, have just released a new product in beta form, Construct Animate. Construct Animate is a special version of the Construct 3 game engine specifically for creating 2D animations, which can be exported as web apps, ads or in video form. …

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Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has just released a new free tool Avatar Mixer. This joins the previous Mixer projects such as Ship Mixer and Creature Mixer on Itch.io. These tools allow you to rapidly (or completely randomly), create sprite graphics using a mix and match approach of existing assets. You …

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