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First launched in 2003, the open source cross platform vector graphics application Inkscape just hit the major 1.0 milestone! Inkscape is open source with the source code available on GitLab. Details of the release from the Inkscape news page:After a little over three years in development, the team is excited to launch the long awaited […]
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Inskscape, the open source cross platform vector graphics application, just released the first release candidate on the way to a full 1.0 release. Along side the RC1 release, they also released version 0.92.5 of the stable branch.Details of the two releases from the Inkscape news pages:Inkscape 0.92.5While we are working to release Inkscape 1.0 in […]
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Shiro Games, the developers behind such games as Evoland, Northgard and Darksburg, just posted a blog post on the technology they use to develop their game.The primary parts of the development stack include:The Haxe LanguageHaxe is a cross platform open source programming language with a high-level strictly typed language capable of being compatible to multiple […]
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Raylib 3.0 was released today. Raylib is an open source, cross platform C based framework of tools and libraries for making games. Components of raylib can be used on their own, however you can also download a preconfigured development environment making it among the easiest ways to get started doing C or C++ game programming. […]
After several years of changing business models and ownership changes, Corona Labs have decided to shut things down. Thankfully for Corona users they full open sourced the engine and tooling and changed to the MIT license.Details of the closure process from the Corona Labs site (warning, it’s having trouble right now):Some of the Corona Labs […]
Corona Labs Closing–Engine Fully Open-Sourced Read More
ArmorPaint is an open source competitor to Substance Painter, from the creator of the Armory game engine (tutorial series available here). It is available for just 16 Euro in binary form, but can also be built from source code. This guide walks you step by step through the process of building ArmorPaint from source.There are […]
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PixelORama is a free, open source (MIT licensed) pixel art application written using the Godot game engine in GDScript. Version 0.5 was just recently released with the following features:Choosing between 6 tools – pencil, eraser, fill bucket, lighten/darken, color picker and rectangle select – and mapping them to both of your left and right mouse […]
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The developer Devdog have open sourced a number of their Unity assets, available immediately under the MIT open source license on GitHub. The open sourced assets include:- Inventory Pro (link to Github page)- Quest System Pro (link to Github page)- LOS Pro (link to Github page)- Sci-Fi UI Design (link to Github page)- Scene Cleaner […]
Devdog Unity Asset Open Source and Giveaway + Unity Model Sale Read More
Today we are checking out Laigter, a free tool that enables you to perform special effects on sprites quickly and easily. Even better, the source code is available on GitHub under the GPL 3.0 license.Laigter is described as:This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in […]
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Released a few weeks back, SHADERed is a free and open source editing environment for developing shaders, both HLSL and GLSL. SHADERed enables you to create shaders on the fly with a real-time view of the results. Currently it is Windows only, but the code is currently being ported from D3D to OpenG+SDL so this […]
SHADERed Free GLSL/HLSL Shader Editor Read More
