Topic

Game Development

Downtown Generator V2 - A procedural city-building add-on for Blender

Downtown Generator is a Blender add-on that enables the quick creation of city environments through procedural generation. Created by 3D artist Mohamed Elsherif, the add-on can be used for tasks such as creating game environments, open-world scenes, cinematic shots, concept art, and more. The developer explained that one of the goals behind the add-on was to address particular pain points artists faced when using similar city-building tools. Most either provided fast results with limited output customization or offered a high degree of control that required complex setups, potentially slowing down the user workflow.

Published: 17. Aug. 2026

News

Sisir - A free solution for character hair grooming

Sisir is a new hair-grooming tool being developed as a free standalone application. It is designed as a complete solution for creating a production-ready groom from scratch. The application uses physics simulation to provide a workflow that feels like working with real hair. Users place guides, which are generated lines that guide the hair, while the simulation handles the rest. The guides fall, drape, and settle naturally under physics as the hair is styled. Once the guides have been placed, hair can be procedurally generated from them and adjusted in a non-destructive way.

Published: 10. Aug. 2026

News

SmartUndo+ brings object-based undo history to Blender

SmartUndo+ is a new Blender add-on by kunemann designed to improve users' workflow by providing expanded control over the software's undo history. Blender's built-in undo system works globally, rewinding every change in the scene with each undo step. In contrast, SmartUndo+ adds the ability to rewind changes to individual objects. Each object has its own undo history, allowing users to revert changes without affecting other elements.

Published: 27. Jul. 2026

News

Blender 5.2 has been released

Blender 5.2 has arrived. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with two years of updates, making it ideal for projects that require long-term stability. The release introduces improvements across many areas of the application. Geometry Nodes is one of the main areas of focus, with several new nodes extending its toolset.

Published: 20. Jul. 2026

News

Box3D - A new open-source 3D physics engine

Box3D is a new open source 3D physics engine by Erin Catto, the creator of the widely used Box2D physics engine. Development of the engine began in 2022 and has now resulted in its initial release. According to the developer, the project was driven by several motivations, one of the primary reasons being issues encountered with Unreal Engine's native physics while developing his own game, The Legend of California. These included the lack of support for simulating gyroscopic torques, falling trees behaving erratically, and the need to perform a fast broad-phase physics pass when simulating very high entity counts, reaching into the hundreds of thousands.

Published: 14. Jul. 2026

News

The Bevy game engine has been updated (0.19)

Bevy, the data-driven game engine built with Rust, has received a new update. For developers new to Bevy, it is one of the most popular game engines in the Rust ecosystem. It currently functions more as a game framework than a full-fledged game engine, without an integrated visual editor comparable to those found in engines such as Unreal Engine, Unity, or Godot. An official editor is currently being developed by the Bevy Editor design group, although no release timeline has been announced.

Published: 29. Jun. 2026

News

The O3DE game engine has been updated to version 26.05

The O3DE game engine has received a new update (26.05.0). This latest release continues the project's focus on improving engine stability while enhancing the user experience across its toolset. O3DE has seen steady improvements in reliability across recent updates, and this release appears to continue that trend, further strengthening its appeal for professional projects.

Published: 8. Jun. 2026

News

InstaMAT now available on Linux

The 3D texture and asset creation software InstaMAT is now available on Linux. Described as a complete 3D material platform, it offers tools for material creation and texture painting and can serve as an alternative to Adobe's Substance 3D suite. The software officially launched last year for Windows and macOS and is now natively available on Linux.

Published: 11. May. 2026

News

Raylib 6.0 released - The biggest Raylib release ever

Raylib has been updated to version 6. This release has been described by Raylib's creator as the biggest Raylib release ever, representing a significant effort from project contributors, with over 2000 contributions since the previous release. Raylib is described as a simple and easy-to-use library for videogame programming. It is written in the C programming language and offers bindings for use with more than 60 other programming languages. It uses a modular internal structure that groups functionality into areas like graphics, audio, and input, allowing developers to focus on the features they need when building games, tools, and interactive applications.

Published: 27. Apr. 2026

News

Phaser 4 released with major rendering improvements

Phaser 4 is here, representing a major update for the framework. For those unfamiliar, Phaser is a popular open source framework for building 2D games in JavaScript, mainly for the web in browsers, but also usable in mobile and desktop apps via wrappers. It is a mature solution that has been in development for 13 years and has been used to power thousands of titles, from prototypes to full scale commercial games.

Published: 21. Apr. 2026

News

Cascadeur 2026.1 released with new renderer and UE Live Link

The physics-based animation software Cascadeur has been updated to version 2026.1, bringing significant improvements to workflow along with a major rendering overhaul. This release completes the migration to the new Filament Rendering Engine, which was previously available as an experimental preview in version 2025.3. Nekki, the company behind Cascadeur, states that this change provides a significant improvement in viewport quality while offering users a more advanced visual environment during animation work.

Published: 13. Apr. 2026

News

Fyrox 1.0 released after seven years of development

Fyrox is a free and open source game engine written in the Rust programming language that has been steadily progressing toward its 1.0 release for seven years. Fyrox is described as a modern, general purpose engine designed for creating 2D and 3D games with a focus on safety, reliability, and performance. It includes a scene editor that allows games to be created with relatively low effort and operates in a way similar to engines such as Unity, while being built with Rust.

Published: 6. Apr. 2026