Nvidia VR with SDK.

November 18, 2015: NVIDIA released the GameWorks VR and DesignWorks VR Software Development Kits.
The 1.0 SDK releases also add support for Windows 10.
The main reason is a complex challenge VR versus graphics processing to traditional 3D apps and games.

You can read mmore about this here and can also see this video:

Simple tutorial about gimp normal map.

Today I wrote one simple tutorial about to to deal easy with normal map.
This tutorial can be used with simple 3D objects to make more nice.
The tutorial can be found at gimp normal map plugin.

The new version : Blender 3D version 2.76 .

Date: 2015.09.17 

The Blender 3D team are proud to present Blender 2.76 with many features and some bugs were fixed. You can read about this version here.

 

Tested the gameofbombs online game.

This is made under bomberman game idea.
It's working under browser - I used Firefox browser.
The game is very good with many funny players.
You can also donate and this will make your player more good.
You can try it here - gameofbombs website.

News: Feist will be released on July 23.

It's a multi-award winning project under steam.
You can see this video about Feist and more with the youtube channel - Feist Game :

... a first impression: I like it.

News: The Tangram is designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps.

Mapzen builds open-source mapping tools and collaborates on open geodata initiatives and one good choice is Tangram.
The Tangram is a flexible mapping engine, designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps. Come with some features like matrix maps:

News: The new version of Unity 5.1 .

The new Unity 5.1 is ready for you to download.
Some new features can be found here.
The Unity 5.1 release come with  industry-leading multiplatform support, and unmatched efficiency boosted in the cloud. It brings you a new unified development experience for VR platforms like Oculus Rift and our easy to use Unity Multiplayer networking solution.
Changes to your project are detected as you work and builds are delivered automatically to your device from the cloud, or distributed to your team so you can play them on the Web with Unity Cloud Build.
The Unity Cloud Build come with this options : Free, Pro - 25$ / month, Studio - 100$ / month and Enterprise.
You can read more about Unity 5.1 here.

Make online sprite with piskelapp.

This website -www.piskelapp.com can be used to create sprites for your games.
Basically, it's an interface with drawings features like:

- set the drawing tools;
- set grids;
- use layers;
- copy image to all layers;
- set your size and resize;

and more...
If you want to use Piskel offline, you can download an offline version of Piskel below.
We provide applications for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. See this screenshots:

News: 0.A.D - discontinuation of the Alpha 15 Osiris.

The only distribution bundling Alpha 15 is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The Alpha 16 is available in backports, and the latest version is available in our PPA.

Alpha 15 with the subsequent Alpha 16 being out for a year now.

The Alpha 15 Osiris multiplayer lobby is now discontinued.

Read more about this game here.

News: libGDX 1.6.0 released

I used libGDX. It's simple and you can used with 2D graphics. Now the libGDX come with one new version 1.6.0. The new features and the fixed bugs can fi found here. I will come with one simple tutorial under android project. Also you can see more about my work under my tutorials website.

News: Unity and Microsoft Holographic Academy - HoloLens .

According to this article - the Unity team has a few days working with developers at the Microsoft Holographic Academy.
They tells us:
 Unity’s HoloLens support follows the recent announcement that Microsoft and Unity would be working together to better integrate Unity and Visual Studio. This agreement has an important impact for the many developers new to Unity looking to develop game and non-game applications for HoloLens. Increased discoverability through shared installations and new scripting templates will make creating a new HoloLens project fast and simple.

News: Godot - new game engine working with Linux, Windows, OSX and consoles.

The last version of Godot Engine Reaches 1.0 come with new features: 

- working simple , flexible and feature rich editor, with tools under multi-platform editor: Linux, Windows and OSX;

- the game result work for your multi-platform : iOS, Android, Desktop Platforms: Windows, OSX, Linux,Web Platforms: PNaCL and consoles: Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita (only with license from Sony); 

- 2D and 3D game development; - GUI library for UI Game Interfaces; 

- Python-based scripting language, designed to make games with C++ API to optimize parts of the game or extend any part of the engine. - you can animate 2D or 3D. - simulate 2D and 3D physics engines; 

First look : I run it , working well. You need to make some settings to export the game.

Working with .obj to import objects . Not working with tff fonts.

Seam to be a lite dizzy , but I saw some good youtube tutorials. 

 

download the templates for exporting , see the next image:  

and export your game ... 

 

New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 18 Rhododactylos

The development team of old and great game 0 A.D. come with a new version of this game. Download and installation instructions are available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. 0 A.D. is free to download it from official website.