Right now, the Google Play Store is stuffed full of pay-to-win garbage, while iOS enjoys a smorgasbord of excellent indie titles. We need aspirational developers like you, and stat! If you’ve never ...

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If you want to create a game for Android, then Unreal Engine 4 is a very good choice, with a lot of power and flexibility. Upon first loading the editor up though, you might feel overwhelmed by all ...

These days, one tool has essentially unlocked the world of game development for the masses. Since it was introduced in 2005, Unity has tried to make creating video games possible for everyone ...

In this first part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, we'll be focusing entirely on the vertex stage of the process. This means dragging out our math textbooks, brushing up on a spot of linear ...

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Tyler Lacoma has spent more than 10 years testing tech and studying the latest web tool to help keep readers current. He's here for you when you need a how-to guide, explainer, review, or list of the ...

Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date, Amazon has shown it wants to compete against ...

What do BMW, Tencent, Pokémon Go creator Niantic, movie director Jon Favreau and construction giant Skanska have in common? They’re all using the same platform to create their products. “Unity wants ...

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), this ...

Backbone is a pixel-art adventure set in a dystopian Vancouver that stars a raccoon private investigator. Taking social decay and discrimination as its themes, the game tells a story about how our ...