Software Development

Cute paper games made in Godot get praise during multi-round gamejam, updates coming soon. What is GDKO? This is the Gamedev Knockout – a gamejam hosted by Xanderwood several years in a row. I entered for the second year in a row. Last year, I made it through the first two rounds before voluntarily dropout out due ...

Creating the “Impossible Staircase” by M.C. Escher in one week? Join me in my journey for round one of the 2023 Game Dev Knock Out gamejam. This first round of the gamejam was all about creating an interesting level in a unique location. No gameplay, only a level you can move about. While it was ...

Download the prototype for a fun new procedural, hijack-highway driving video game.

Are you an addon developer? Ever wished you could easily get in-the-moment feedback from your users? Unsure of what errors your users are encountering most often (how would you even know?). It doesn’t have to be difficult. This tutorial will show you how to use an example repository for integrating user error reporting inside blender ...

Comment below with your own tips for updates and support! With the Blender 2.8 beta out, a lot of addons need an update. As a developer, perhaps you wishfully thought your scripts would work fine. You probably immediately found out this was not the case. Thus, you are facing the daunting task of updating your code ...

The 3.1.0 release of MCprep is around the corner, and I’m looking for people to beta test it before the official go-live! Get the MCprep beta download here Key new features This version of MCprep adds some existing new features, as well as many overall enhancements, bug fixes, and stability improvements. 1. Swap texture packs (only supports jmc2obj, Mineways ...

Have you ever library linked a group from another blender file, but wished you could easily modify one part of it? Well, you could always modify the library linked source file, or… you could use this little trick. How to Create Easy Overrides Using Python Video Tutorial See the video playback from the World Blender Meetup Day (March ...

About a month ago, my most recent course on Lynda.com published covering OpenCV and python! Includes a free lectureThis course is designed to introduce the concepts of image processing while giving practical examples and problems. It is aimed at existing python developers, but you can benefit from the course with even a basic understanding of python. ...

As Artificial Intelligence and predictive behavior permeate the news, I wanted to take a moment to talk about analytics, in many ways the root of these concepts. Specifically, let’s talk about the good of analytics and how to bring it into use with open source software. It is a key tool to understand and harness ...

Firstly, if you haven’t seen it already – check out MCprep v3.0.2 which fixes a number of bugs and very widely increases compatibility for earlier blender versions. There are people using MCprep with versions of blender as far back as 2.72, released in Jan. 2015! Some quick stats and figures: Since its 3.0 release on November 27, ...