Blips Blog

The Godot game engine has been upgraded: version 4.0 is out!

After more than three years of work, the Godot development team finally releases what it seems like an almost brand-new game engine! To present us with this release the engine has been through a complete core overhaul, a full engine rewrite, 17 alphas, 17 betas and 6 release candidates!

Published: 2. Mar. 2023

News

Ramatak: A promising option for making mobile games

Ramatak Mobile Studio is marketed as a straight-forward solution to build and deploy mobile games using the Godot game engine. Behind this project is Ramatak Inc. a brand new public benefit company founded by Godot engine veterans: Ariel Manzur (Godot original author) and Hein-Pieter van Braam.

Published: 27. Feb. 2023

Tips

4 uses for coroutines in Godot

We've discussed how coroutines can be a great tool to employ while making games in our article: Coroutines - A useful tool in every developer's toolbelt. Now we'll have a look at four ways in which a coroutine can be useful using code examples in the Godot game engine.

Published: 21. Feb. 2023

Tips

4 uses for coroutines in Unity

Published: 20. Feb. 2023

News

Bring New York City into your games - Free 3D Models!

A replica of several city blocks around the 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City (USA) was recently released by Geopipe Inc, a technology company using AI to create and deliver large-scale 3D simulations of real-world environments. This latest asset release dubbed “Real New York City Vol. 1” follows the previously released “Real New York City Vol. 2” which is based on several city blocks between Columbus Circle and the One Worldwide Plaza.

Published: 13. Feb. 2023

Tips

Coroutines - A useful tool in every developer’s toolbelt

To put it simple, a coroutine is a control flow mechanism that allows you to pause code execution and resume it at a later time. In many programming languages, it is implemented as a special kind of function/method that can "yield" control back to the caller.

Published: 6. Feb. 2023

News

The Global Game Jam 2023 is starting!

The world's largest game creation event is happening once again, bringing people and communities all over the world together to make games in 48 hours! For many this presents a great opportunity to try and create their very first game. It can also be a way to experience working alongside professionals and enthusiasts with a variety of skillsets.

Published: 30. Jan. 2023

News

Blips is now offering free game music packs!

You may not yet realize the advantages adaptive music can bring to your games, as such we've decided to make some of our music packs available for free so you can try them. Yes! That's right! We're offering free adaptive music! How cool is that?! To make them even more useful to you, we've made one music pack available for free in each game category.

Published: 9. Jan. 2023

General

The importance of video game music

What does a video game feel like without music? It just doesn't feel right, like there's something missing. And why does it feel that way? I don't think it's possible to narrow down the answer to just one specific reason.

Published: 12. Dec. 2022

Tutorials

Implementing Blips music packs in Godot

In this tutorial you'll learn how to implement Blips music packs using nothing more than the Godot game engine. You'll be able to initiate and stop tracks, as well as enable and disable its layers.

Published: 28. Nov. 2022

Tutorials

Implementing Blips music packs in Unity

In this tutorial you'll learn how to implement our adaptive music packs equipped with nothing more than the Unity game engine. You'll be able to initiate and stop tracks, as well as enable and disable their layers.

Published: 14. Nov. 2022

Tips

Installing and configuring FMOD for your project (Unity)

The FMOD audio middleware has two components that we will need to install in order to create and ship adaptive audio alongside the rest of our game.

Published: 31. Oct. 2022