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Battle Hardened Game Asset Hivemind Humble Bundle – GameFromScratch.com The Hivemind Battle Hardened Game Assets Bundle is a huge collection of Unreal Engine and Unity gamedev assets

As promised here is our closer look at the contents of the HUGE Battle Hardened Game Asset Humble Bundle for #UnrealEngine & #Unity3d by Hivemind.

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If you'd like me to cover an asset in more detail, let me know in the next few hours and I'll do my best.

There is a HUGE new Humble for #UnrealEngine and #Unity3d #gamedev.

It's from Hivemind, redeemed on both Fab and Unity Asset Store and contains highly modular and customizable environments.

Hands-on video tomorrow.

Direct bundle link supporting GFS - humblebundleinc.sjv.io/HivemindBundle

Netflix Join Blender Development Fund – GameFromScratch.com Netflix, specifically Netflix Animation Studio (NAS) have just announced they are sponsoring Blender at the Corporate Patron level.

Blender just got a massive new backer -- Netflix.

Specifically Netflix Animation Studio has joined the Blender Development Foundation at the highest support tier

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Best of Humble Bundle- Polygon Assets by Animpic Studio We’ve bundled a massive collection of versatile and lightweight low-poly assets for game development! Featuring medieval, wild west, survivor themes and more.

Get #Unity3d and #UnrealEngine low poly game assets in the Animpic Encore bundle (meaning it's a repeat!)

GFS supporting bundle Link - humblebundleinc.sjv.io/AnimpicEncore

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New Bundles - Fab Giveaway - The State of Fab – GameFromScratch.com Fab Jan/Feb Free Asset giveaway - New Humble Gamedev Bundles - Is Fab Any Good Now... State of Fab in 2025 released

3 in 1 #gamedev news -

- The State of Fab in 2025 released - is Fab Good Now?
- 3 New Game Asset Humble Bundles released
- Free #UnrealEngine (and #unity3d) Game Asset Giveaway!

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Godot 4.6 Released – GameFromScratch.com The open source Godot game engine just released Godot 4.6 with several new features including the modern passivestar theme

Rejoice #GodotEngine fans.... Godot 4.6 has been released!

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Awesome, congratulations on the milestone!

Honestly... that's true.

IKEA x UEFN or IKEA x Roblox would also make a ton of sense.

Secret $800M Google X Epic Games Partnership – GameFromScratch.com A secret 800M partnership between Epic Games and Google involving google services, Fortnite and Unreal Engine has been revealed

A "spicy" secret $800M partnership between Google and Epic Games has just been revealed.

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GitHub - apinanaivot/IKEA-3D-Model-Download-Button: Adds ability to download models from IKEA website Adds ability to download models from IKEA website. Contribute to apinanaivot/IKEA-3D-Model-Download-Button development by creating an account on GitHub.

Want a HUGE library of 3D models....?

Well, you can download every model from the IKEA website using this script.

Would it be legal to use these models in any way...

HAHAHAHA...no. Not even a tiny little bit.

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Zen C - A Better C Programming Language – GameFromScratch.com Zen C is a new programming language that adds modern high level language features to C and transpiles down to C code

What high level programming comfort of languages like C#, C++ and Rust, but the low level predictability, performance and portability of C?

If you answered yes... check out Zen C.

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Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit for Godot – GameFromScratch.com Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit is an open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables pixel art style 3D terrain.

This is Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit.

A new open-source #GodotEngine add-on for creating 3D Terrain for Pixel Art or retro style games. It's incredibly easy to use and pretty feature complete.

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Material Maker 1.5 Released – GameFromScratch.com Material Maker 1.5 is here. The cross platform, free and open source Substance Designer alternative just keeps getting better

One of my favorite #opensource applications just updated!

Material Maker 1.5 has been released... it's the best free alternative to Substance Designer! Easily create procedural textures for #GodotEngine, #UnrealEngine and #Unity3d!

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RIP Hazel Engine? – GameFromScratch.com The C++ powered Hazel Engine and The Cherno YouTube channel just got much murkier futures with this disappointing announcement

The future of the Hazel Engine and The Cherno YouTube channel both got a bit bleaker with today's announcement.

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Make Music, Change Lives Build your music library with this bundle of instruments, beats, and loops at the price of your choice, and support Music Will charity!

If you want the direct bundle link (that support GFS), without the ear bleeding Mixcraft demo... here it is. Some nice loops, VSTs, etc in there in addition to Mixcraft
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Mixcraft 10.6 Humble Audio Bundle – GameFromScratch.com The Make Music, Change Lives Humble Bundle is currently running on Humble. The star of this bundle is Mixcraft 10.6, which is (in my opinion) by far the easiest Windows DAW available. In addition to M...

Mixcraft 10.6 is finally available on Humble!

Mixcraft is (IMHO) the easiest to learn Windows-based DAW. We go hands-on with this idiot-proof DAW... in the hands of perhaps the biggest audio idiot you could find... me! ;)

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Not really for that. More for making quick and easy debugging/tools for your shaders.

ShaderToHuman: Shader Debugging for Mere Mortals – GameFromScratch.com ShaderToHuman open sourced by Electronic Arts, makes debugging and developing HLSL and GLSL shaders a heck of a lot easier

EA have open sourced an amazing tool for HLSL & GLSL shader development - ShaderToHuman.

Think of it like printf() meets Dear ImGUI. A super easy and powerful tool for developing and debugging shaders!

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Bevy 0.18 Released – GameFromScratch.com The Bevy rust powered game development framework just released Bevy 0.18 with raytracing improvements, new cameras and much more

Bevy, the Rust-powered open-source game engine just released Bevy 0.18.

Realtime raytracing and PBR improvements, new cameras, full screen materials and more.

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FAB GameDev Asset Giveaway [Jan 13th – Jan 27th] – GameFromScratch.com It's the Epic Games Fab GameDev Asset Giveaway for January 2026 3 UE, Unity, Godot and More game ready assets free

It's free #gamedev asset day! Epic Games are giving away 3 free #UnrealEngine assets ( including 2 #Unity3d assets and 1 universal asset usable in #GodotEngine, #Blender3d, etc). Get them before Jan 27th completely FREE.

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Pico GPU - Virtual GPU For Learning Shaders – GameFromScratch.com Haxe language and Shiro Games founder Nicolas Cannasse just released a new Virtual GPU Pico GPU, ideal for learning shader programming.

Haxe language creator and @shirogames.com founder Nicolas Cannasse just released Pico GPU.

It's a virtual GPU and could become the perfect introduction environment for shader development.

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Hope the exposure helps. Good luck with the project.

Folded Paper Engine - Blender to Godot – GameFromScratch.com The Folded Paper Engine is an interesting project that enables you to author a game entirely in Blender, then build it in Godot.

Today we are looking at an extremely cool project -- the Folded Paper Engine.

This project enables you to create a game entirely in Blender, then compile/run it using Godot!

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#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

Audio Alchemy: A Premium Collection of Sound FX, Music, and Game Engine Plugins from Ovani Sound Encore Download a library of royalty and subscription-free sounds for your game, film, or creative project. Pay what you want and support charity!

The Audio Alchemy Humble Bundle from Ovani Sounds is back in ENCORE form.

An awesome collection of #gamedev ready soundtracks, SFX and game engine plugins. It's an encore meaning a 100% repeat (and thus no video)!

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Friction - Free and Open Source 2D Animation Software – GameFromScratch.com Friction is a powerful, lightweight and cross-platform open-source 2D animation package, similar to Adobe Animate or After Effects. Friction is a fork of the now abandoned ENVE project(learn more) tha...

Looking for a free & open source alternative to Adobe After Effects or Adobe Animate for 2D animation?

Check out the excellent FRICTION, available for Windows, Mac & Linux (and spawned by ENVE).

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UPBGE 0.50 Released - Blender Game Engine Lives! – GameFromScratch.com UPBGE 0.50 is here, this fork of Blender 5 keeps the Blender Game Engine concept alive, enabling game development entirely in Blender.

The Blender Game Engine LIVES!

In fact, it has come to the recently released Blender 5, with the brand new UPGBE 0.5! #Gamedev entirely inside of Blender, start to finish!

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SDL 3.4 Released – GameFromScratch.com SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer, is a key C/C++ game framework that just released SDL 3.4 with better GPU support, joysticks and more

Big news for game developers: SDL 3.4 is out! 🛠️

Ok... it came out the end of last week, but you know... holidays... Still an exciting release! Oh, and Happy New Year!

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MonoGame Received Large Donation – GameFromScratch.com MonoGame, the popular successor to Microsofts XNA gamedev framework just got a huge donation from ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley

Ending 2025 on some happy #gamedev news!

The excellent open source C# game development framework @monogame.net just got a massive donation from @concernedape.bsky.social, the creator of Stardew Valley.

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Unreal Engine Asset Giveaway [Dec 30th - Jan 13th] – GameFromScratch.com It's time for the Epic Games Unreal Engine Fab Marketplace GameDev Asset Giveaway for Dec - January 2026. Free game assets time

The Holidays may be over, but how does one last gift sound?

It's time for the final 2025 / first 2026 Unreal Engine Fab Asset Giveaway - 3 UE Assets + 1 Unity asset included.

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#gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #unity3d