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Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview available for download

At GDC 2023, Epic Games gave us a glimpse of Unreal Engine 5.2 during their keynote presentation. In addition to other features, this update will introduce a new Substrate material system and a new procedural content generation framework.

Published: 27. Mar. 2023

General

Exploring the new audio features in Godot 4.0

Godot 4.0 was recently released with a massive number of new features and improvements. Even though there were not many significant changes or groundbreaking additions in the audio aspect, there are still some new things worth talking about.

Published: 20. Mar. 2023

News

The Epic Games Store now allows developers to self-publish

Epic Games has recently announced that developers are now able to self-publish their games on the Epic Games Store (EGS). With this new option, the number of games appearing on the store is likely to increase significantly, potentially causing a major shift in the industry.

Published: 13. Mar. 2023

Tips

How to choose the right audio engine for your game

A game audio engine is the underlying technology that will power your game's audio. Most game engines and frameworks have built-in features to help you add audio to your game, be it music or sound effects. Besides the audio features that are part of an engine's feature set there is also another option known as: Audio middleware.

Published: 6. Mar. 2023

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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

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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