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Visual Studio Code In The Browser

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular cross platform open source code editors available today and for good reasons.  It’s fast, free, expandable and incredibly well supported.  Have you ever wanted to run Visual Studio Code remotely or perhaps host it as the editor in your own cloud based product?  Well now […]

SculptGL Open Source WebGL Sculpting Application

It’s simply amazing the amount of free software available these days for game developers, and SculptGL is no exception.  It is a 3D sculpting application similar to ZBrush, Sculptris or Mudbox, but it runs entirely inside your browser (or locally via Electron if you prefer).  Features from SculptGL include:Sculpting tools Standard tools : Brush, Inflate, […]

VRoid Studio Revisited

Last year we took our first look at VRoid Studio, a 3D anime style character creator that had recently been translated to English.  It works very similarly to Daz3D, Poser and MakeHuman, but is entirely dedicated to creating characters in the anime style.  Using a simple set of sliders, you can quickly customize a character […]

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Inside CCG Toolkit For Unreal

Currently free as part of the February Unreal content giveaway, we take a hands-on look at CCG Toolkit.  The CCG Toolkit is a collection of blueprints and assets that provide a framework for easily creating digital card games like Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone.  CCG Toolkit is described as:The CCG Toolkit is an extensive card […]

Top 10 Free Game Development Tools 2018

Top 10 Free Game Development Tools

During my recent MagicaVoxel video I mentioned that this application deserves a place on my “Top 10 free game development tools” list.  Then I realized I’d never created such a list, so now I have!  This is a collection of 10 free (as in money, not freedom, although many are open source as well) tools […]

A Closer Look At GameMaker Studio 2

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 […]

Tiled Map Editor Tutorial Series

  Tiled is a popular open source map editor for creating 2D maps using tiled graphics.  I have used Tiled in several previous tutorials and no doubt will be using Tiled in several future series, so instead of covering it partially over and over again, I decided to do a Tiled video tutorial series that […]

A closer look at Project Anarchy

  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 […]

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