Game From Scratch

Over on the GameFromScratch discord, we have been compiling a list of #gamedev related Discord channels, and now we are doing the same thing for game development resources... come join us... we have cookies!* discord.gg/R7tUVbD *ʷᵉ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶜᵒᵒᵏᶦᵉˢ.

Unity 6.4 and Unity Studio were just released. gamefromscratch.com/unity-6-4-and-… #gamedev #unity3d #indiedev

There is a new #gamedev Humble Bundle by @ZenvaTweets covering #GodotEngine, #Unity3d, #UnrealEngine and even @Defold, Phaser, Pygame & more. About to jump on a plane so no video for now, but here's the direct GFS support link (and thanks if used!) humblebundleinc.sjv.io/ZenvaZeroToHero

GIMP 3.2 was just released. GIMP gets some pretty massive foundational upgrades including two no non-destructive layer (vectors and live images), new draw mode of interest to pixel artists & more. gamefromscratch.com/gimp-3-2-relea… #gamedev #indiedev

The DOJ have just dropped their 2024 lawsuit over Adobe's scummy business practices, the result being the equivalent of a corporate speeding ticket... gamefromscratch.com/doj-drop-2024-…

@JayAnAmGames Done. Am about to go on vacation though so might be some delay

@gamefromscratch Hey! Hardcuts Alpha 0.5.0 is out — voxel-based hard surface sculpting. Please register for free at hardcuts.io and I'll add you as an alpha tester.

@gamefromscratch See what's in the making, you can test it soon :) #HardCuts

@BitByteBytes @OlocoDisabled Yeah that's basically exactly what I did. Clicked an image inside a repository

@OlocoDisabled @gamefromscratch i've recently gotten that from just going to a github repo and clicking on a single file one time.

GitHub is just going to crap lately. Yesterday git clone was downloading at sub 1MB rates... took almost an hour to clone Godot, instead of the seconds it should have taken. Today, just browsing an image inside a repository led me to this joy:

@mrmaxm Yeah, same here. Think I've made it to his 3rd phase every time, but then he just scales up way too much and hits way too hard. Meanwhile you're dealing with x number of bleeds and other debuff cards.

@gamefromscratch I have nearly survived..

I hate it. I hate it so much.

I updated the linked article, you can tweak the params to the raytracer, especially param 3 which seems to enable denoising, while param 2 increases secondary light bounces. The denoising makes a HUGE difference, especially over time. But DAMN are they buggy!

NVIDIA x #GodotEngine with the new Godot RTX fork. Brings ray/pathtracing to Godot 4.7... and this time, I got it working properly and show you how you can do the same! It's VERY glitchy but very cool. gamefromscratch.com/nvidia-release… #gamedev #indiedev #GDC

@tosho Its' a boss from Slay the Spire 2. And its 350lbs of concentrated evil, especially in co-op mode!

@gamefromscratch why? looks fun. what is this?

@neetkingduck I have a feeling it's because I co-op and the way the power scale breaks this SOB. All other bosses fall before me, but in coop this prick wipes the floor with me all the time.

Ok... really screwed up with the Godot Pathtracing video, have it all sorted now and I should have something up tomorrow morning. Sometimes I get burned for doing videos on subjects with literally no documentation or materials! ;)

There are multiple #gamedev Humble Bundles for #UnrealEngine, #Unity3D, #Godot, #Blender3d and more - running right now, including a new Synty Sci-Fi themed low poly asset bundle. gamefromscratch.com/new-synty-sci-…

@MR3Dev @locust9 Harharhar... I actually covered when they announced the Switch to Godot back in 2023 and the prototype they smashed together

@gamefromscratch @locust9 As Godot's number one fan I expected more videos about the game on your channel 😂

Slay the Spire 2 making executives get fired across the board.

Here is the direct video url: youtu.be/LI14y-tE5GA Special thanks to @InnerslothDevs, @RawFury, @VoyerLaw and others that have made a wealth of previously private information publicly available for #gamedev and #indiedev.

Thinking of signing an indie publishing deal? Stop and watch/read this first. 👿 Uncovering the good, the bad, and the predatory of #gamedev publishing and funding! gamefromscratch.com/indie-game-pub…

@JNavok As a guy that covers gamedev news and whose busiest week is normally GDC... yeah, I agree. I think a big part of it is Unity and Unreal moving announcements from GDC to their own developer conferences. Plus the rise of AI and previously Web3/NFTs clouding the airwaves.

The story of GDC 2026 is the lack of stories at GDC 2026. In the last decade we saw GDC be the launching point for Stadia, UEFN, and myriad new technologies from Unity, Nvidia, and more. This year, crickets. Part of this is companies have moved their news toward their own channels, not dissimilar to how E3 is no longer a thing. E.g. Epic's stuff is now at UnrealFest. But we used to see a lot more innovation and startups showing off new things at GDC. We saw plenty of small press releases. Nothing really happening this year; just a smattering. I suspect that this is more indicative of where the business is going than anything else. Content companies will continue to be focused on game development (GDC is not a content-first show), new tools are all in the AI space (no one has a fancy new occlusion or lighting tech to show off; the most interesting thing I saw on Monday was at the @supercell event with the AI animation editor from @Uthana_Inc), and creator platforms like Roblox don't see GDC as its target audience. I don't think this is indicative of GDC as a show; I think this shows the state of an industry whose future is in AI tooling but whose present state is driven by the weird combination of stasis in the old business model and the platformerization of the next generation of consumers (Roblox) on the other end.