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The idea of linking 3D experiences together to create “cyberspace” has been with us for a very long time, a term first coined in the book Neuromancer (published in 1984). Early technologies like VRML attempted this, but were ahead of the technology of the day. The Gates is one such

There is a double decker of game development news in one post today. First, we have a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Game Programming Books by Pearson bundle, a collection of e-books on game design, programming and more. This joins yesterday’s excellent Ovani Game Audio bundle.

The nearly open-source free Defold game engine just released Defold 1.9.7 and the highlight feature of this release is C# support! This isn’t replacing Lua as the primary scripting language, in fact it’s not a scripting language at all, instead enabling you to easily make game extensions using the C#

Every other Tuesday we get an Unreal Engine Fab marketplace giveaway and this Tuesday is no exception. You can get three free game development assets during the next two weeks, all of the assets work in Unreal natively (there are no Unity specific assets this week). If you are using a different

Today we are looking the powerful “new” Godot Sky3D add-on from Tokisan Games, the creators of the popular Terrain3D plugin. I air quotes around “new” because the Sky3D project is actually a revival of an earlier Godot 3 add-on by J. Cuéllar. That project however was abandoned, so Tokisan have

There is a new plugin for Blender, Paint System by Tawan Sunflower that enables you to paint directly on your 3D models in Blender using a very familiar system to Photoshop users. Best of all the add-on is completely free although it does require a newish version of Blender to

Over the holidays Passive Star released the Godot Minimal Theme 2.0. I have used the Godot Minimal Theme since it was released back in April 2024 and I still believe that it makes Godot look about as good as possible (obviously this is a matter of opinion). The 2.0 release

There is a new fork of GB Studio, the popular Game Boy game engine, called BB Studio that can now target the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). BB Studio is described as: “BB Studio” is a heavily-hacked version of the awesome GB Studio by Chris Maltby. It replaces the Game Boy

SFML, the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library just released SFML 3. It has been over a decade since the SFML 2 release, and the 3.0.0 branch has been in development for over 3 years. The highlight feature of SFML 3 is the migration to C++ 17 (in fact C++ 17