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GameFromScratch.com Trexel – New PixiEditor for GameDev Pixi Labs, the creators of PixiEditor (check out our coverage here), have just unveiled Trexel, a new 2D application built on PixiEditor specifically aimed at game developers. The first beta release is expect to be in early 2027. Key features promised in Trexel in
GameFromScratch.com Meta Horizon Create and Horizon Studio “Game Engines” At Meta Connect 2026 Meta just announced the upcoming release of two “game engines”, Horizon Create and Horizon Studio. I do not use the word “AI-slop” very often, but I can’t fathom anything else coming from this. On the bright side… the “produc
GameFromScratch.com September Free GameDev Assets Round-Up #2 It’s time for the next Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from September 22nd – October 6th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets, of course you
GameFromScratch.com TrenchBroom 3D Level Editor Over the years here on GameFromScratch we have covered TrenchBroom importers such as Qodot for Godot and TrenchBroom inspired tools such as Anvil for Blender. We never actually covered TrenchBroom itself… until today. TrenchBroom is a modern level editor, available for Wi
GameFromScratch.com Gozen – Free & Open-Source Godot Powered Video Editor Gozen is a free and open source Godot-powered video editor that just released in beta. It’s runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can get Gozen completely for free by building it from source yourself (a somewhat non-trivial setup process, but it wo
GameFromScratch.com September GameDev Deals Round-Up Here is the round-up of the best gamedev deals, sales and bundles going on in (late) September 2026. Unity Asset Store Unity Autumn Sale Unity Asset Store – Publisher of the Week Sale Fab Fab Sales – No Specific Sale or bundle right now but over 4.4K assets marked as
GameFromScratch.com Action Game Maker Massive 2.0 Beta Launched in June 2025 Action Game Maker was an exciting new game engine in the Maker series built on top of the open source Godot game engine. Unfortunately at launch it really didn’t offer much over the vanilla Godot experience, making it hard to justify spending
GameFromScratch.com Modern Game Programming Languages C++ and lately C# have absolutely dominated the game programming language space, but there are several great “new” modern systems level programming languages that are viable for game development. In this video we run through some of the most exciting new(ish) progra
GameFromScratch.com VOID .NET 2D Game Development Framework Void is a new free & open source (MIT licensed) .NET / C# game development framework. It should feel immediately familiar to any XNA or MonoGame developer. The Void engine is described as: VOID Engine is a lightweight, modular 2D game framework for .NET. It pr
GameFromScratch.com ARMA Game & Game Engine Source Released Along side the releases of ARMA Cold War Assault Remastered (previously Operation Flashpoint), Bohemia Interactive did an incredibly cool thing – they released both the game and game engine source code. While this is 20+ year old code at this point in time, th
GameFromScratch.com Gate – An Improved GDScript? Today we are looking at the newly created Gate programming language. In a manner very similar to Dart and especially TypeScript in their relationship to JavaScript, Gate is that to Godot’s GDScript programming language. It is a high level superset ( AKA, valid GDScript i
GameFromScratch.com Unigine 2.22 Released The Unigine game engine just announced the release of Unigine 2.22. This release focused heavily on one of the traditional weaknesses of the Unigine Engine – animation tooling. Additionally Unigine announced they were working on a AA level game using Unigine and also confirmed
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