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Unreal Engine 4.20 released with focus on mobile and immersive (AR/VR/MR) devices

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Following the release of Unreal Engine 4.19 this April, Epic games have launched the Unreal Engine 4.20. This major update focuses on enhancing scalability...

Introducing SCRIPT-8, an 8-bit JavaScript-based fantasy computer to make retro-looking games

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Adding to the list of several fantasy consoles/computers is the newly-introduced SCRIPT-8, written by Gabriel Florit, a graphics reporter at the Washington Post who...

Minecraft Bedrock beta 1.9.0.3 is out with experimental scripting API!

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Minecraft team released Minecraft Bedrock beta 1.9.0.3 last week. The latest release explores new feature such as scripting API, along with minor changes and...
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How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can turbocharge a Game Developer’s career

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Gaming - whether board games or games set in the virtual realm - has been a massively popular form of entertainment since time immemorial....

2D Twin-stick Shooter

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This article written by John P. Doran, the author of Unity Game Development Blueprints, teaches us how to use Unity to prepare a well...
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Unity Benchmark report approves WebAssembly load times and performance in popular web browsers

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Unity has released a benchmarking report after two years since the last Unity Benchmark report comparing the performance and load times of WebAssembly with asm.js....
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Implementing lighting & camera effects in Unity 2018

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Today, we will explore lighting & camera effects in Unity 2018. We will start with cameras to include perspectives, frustums, and Skyboxes. Next, we...

GLSL 4.0: Using Subroutines to Select Shader Functionality

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OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook Over 60 highly focused, practical recipes to maximize your OpenGL Shading language use         In many ways it is...

Lighting an Outdoor Scene in Blender

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  Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering Bring your 3D world to life with lighting, compositing, and rendering Render spectacular scenes with realistic lighting in any 3D...

OpenGL 4.0: Building a C++ Shader Program Class

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  OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook Over 60 highly focused, practical recipes to maximize your OpenGL Shading language use Getting ready There's not much to prepare for with...

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Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and...

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...

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