| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
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$10,000 Unity3D Indie Game Development Challenge!
Posted by:
Austin at 9:15:28 am
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 Muse Games, (musegames.com), a growing portal for browser-based 3D gaming, has announced the launch of "Immunity," an indie game development challenge based on the Unity 3D (unity3d.com) engine. Contestants can submit a simple game prototype to be voted on by the development community and general public, and ultimately compete for a $10,000 contract to finish the game for distribution on musegames.com and beyond.
Full contest details and a sample concept can found at http://musegames.com/community/immunitychallenge
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| Sunday, August 23, 2009 |
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Platinum Arts Sandbox Free Game Maker Map Design Contest!
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Platinum Arts at 2:55:06 pm
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 Interested in showing off your mapping and design skills? Well join our mapping contest then! For more information check the forum contest thread. Be sure not to delay as the deadline is September 10th 2009. This is hopefully only the first in a series contests to come. If the contests grow with participants then so will the prizes! Read on for more information!
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| Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
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Vicious Engine demo now available on Sony's PS3 dev net
Posted by:
Ryan M at 4:31:54 pm
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A playable copy of Vicious Cycle Softwares GDC 2009 demo for Vicious Engine 2 is now up for download on the PLAYSTATION3 Developer Network. Licensed PS3 developers and publishers just have to grab the .pkg file from the private dev site and extract it to their PS3 test/dev kit to give it a try.
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The Hunt, the new ShiVa 3D technical demo is now available
Posted by:
Stonetrip at 9:38:08 am
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Play a survival horror FPS with advanced animation and physics, depth-of-field, motion-blur, ranking...
ShiVa is a 3D realtime global solution, designed for architecture, media and entertainment purposes, a next gen 3D game engine with a graphical editor to create Web 3D applications and AAA games.
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| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Save 10% on all DX Studio Purchases!
Posted by:
Carl at 3:45:50 am
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From today you can now receive a 10% discount off all purchases from the DX Studio website. This means you can now acquire the DX Studio engine for as little as £45!
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| Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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SDL Shoot'em'up contest and tutorial
Posted by:
Matthew at 2:57:58 am
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SDL Tutorials is hosting a programming competition where the aim is to create a shoot'em'up using SDL. To get new developers started there is a tutorial series that shows how to create a shoot'em'up in C++.
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| Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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New Seamless Texture Collection for game developers
Posted by:
Quotix Software at 2:12:41 am
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Quotix Software has released a collection of seamlessly tileable old/dirty wall, ground, brick, floor, concrete and stone textures. Normal, bump and specular maps are included. There are 110 high resolution (up to 2048x2048) textures in this collection. For more information please visit: http://www.quotixsoftware.com
Quotix Software makes resources, including textures, animated characters and other 3D models for game developers.
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Equalizer 0.9 released
Posted by:
Stefan Eilemann at 3:49:35 am
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 We are pleased to announce the release of Equalizer 0.9, the standard framework to create and deploy parallel, scalable OpenGL applications.
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| Saturday, August 8, 2009 |
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Awakening 3.5 Released!
Posted by:
AwingSoft at 12:26:39 am
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 Awakening 3.5 improves terrain, adds video textures, and more.
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| Friday, August 7, 2009 |
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PathEngine Announces SDK Release 5.21, New Licensing
Posted by:
PathEngine at 9:16:48 am
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Lyon, France - August 7th 2009 - PathEngine announces release 5.21.00 of their pathfinding and agent movement SDK, with key features of the release being the addition of functionality for projecting 3D geometry to ground shapes, significant optimisation of preprocess data structures, and 3D content processing improvements. We're also very pleased to announce licensing to Monolith, and to Nexon for 'Nexon Star'.
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NeoAxis Game Engine 0.82 Released
Posted by:
Ivan Efimov at 5:10:31 am
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 The next release of NeoAxis Engine, version 0.82 is a step to complete list of features. This version comes with new features, bug fixes, optimizations, solving all Windows Vista troubles, support of new CG 2.2 and OGRE 1.6.3.
NeoAxis Engine is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics including 3D virtual worlds, AAA games, and realistic simulations. The system comprised of both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of full featured tools.
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| Thursday, August 6, 2009 |
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Abyssal Engine Networking Availability
Posted by:
AbyssalTechnologies at 1:51:33 pm
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 Abyssal Technologies, a provider of Game Development tools today announced the availability of the multiplayer capable version of its OpenGL based development engine and tools allowing for multiplayer and massively multiplayer game development. Trials and Demos are currently available for public download.
http://www.abyssalengine.com
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| Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |
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Intel News: Unreal Tournament Mod Winners & Student Game Dev Competition
Posted by:
Heather MacKinnon at 11:36:07 am
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To encourage game development and experimentation in creative mods, Intel made two gave development contest announcements today at SIGGRAPH. More information is available at Intel's press room.
- Epic Games and Intel announced the Phase 3 Winners of the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal contest for standout mods created for Unreal Tournament 3. Approximately 50 finalists were selected in this round. The final qualifying phase of the competition will close on August 31 to select the last group of finalists who will be considered for grand prizes. Make sure you check out the phase 3 winners. Learn more at http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase3_winners.aspx.
- Intel is sponsoring Dare to be Digital, a 10-week game development competition for students hosted at the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland. The competition challenges 15 groups of students to develop a playable game, culminating in a final event, ProtoPlay, that will be open to the public. Intel will provide the hardware and software that the students will use throughout the competition. More info on Dare to be Digital can be found here: http://www.intel.com/software/daretobedigital.
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| Tuesday, August 4, 2009 |
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Philly Game Jam at GameX
Posted by:
Aniket Das at 7:05:53 pm
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The 2nd annual Philly Game Jam is being held on October 23-25 as part of the GameX Industry Summit, co-hosted by the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) chapters in Baltimore, Boston, New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Professional, student and amateur game developers from all over the Northeast are invited to an exciting 48 hours of team game building. Bring your own technology to create original games based on a theme announced at the start of the contest. If you can bring it you can use it! A lunch reception and awards ceremony co-hosted and sponsored by GameDev.net (a featured media partner of the GameX Industry Summit) will conclude the 2009 Philly Game Jam. For more information or to register online, visit http://gamexpo.us/summit/gamejam.html
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Graphic Remedy Boosts iPhone Graphic Apps with gDEBugger iPhone
Posted by:
Graphic Remedy at 5:52:08 am
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gDEBugger now enables iPhone developers to offer complex OpenGL ES based graphic apps without compromising performance.
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| Monday, August 3, 2009 |
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Khronos Releases OpenGL 3.2
Posted by:
Jonathan Hirshon at 12:40:04 pm
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The Khronos Group, today announced OpenGL 3.2, the third major update in twelve months to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface) for personal computers and workstations. This new release continues the rapid evolution of the OpenGL standard to enable graphics developers to portably access cutting-edge GPU functionality across diverse operating systems and platforms. The full specification is available for immediate download at http://www.opengl.org/registry.
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