GameDev News – Week Ending September 11, 2015
I have started tracking interesting/informative links around game development and industry news on a weekly basis for the past few months. I thought these links might be useful to the world at large, so I’ll be cross-posting these “newsletters” here as well. I’ll start with last week’s set of links below. Enjoy!
- Industry News
- Decent rollup of Apple stuff (which you already know about unless you spent the week in a cave): http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/09/apple-rumor-roundup-scorecard/
- AMD spinning off GPU business: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/09/amd-to-set-up-radeon-graphics-chips-as-a-separate-business/
- Gameloft has closed seven studios in 2015
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Amazon releases AWS C++ SDK for gamedevs: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/02/amazon-launches-aws-c-sdk-designed-for-game-developers/
- Unity 5.2 released with UWP support
- Free MonoGame eBook: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/09/08/Free-MonoGame-e-book-Cross-Platform-Game-Development-with-MonoGame.aspx
- Nice overview of what's new in C#6: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1023426/Whats-New-in-Csharp
- Apple TV for games: http://www.develop-online.net/news/new-apple-tv-features-motion-control-and-touch-play-for-games/0211061
- Physics-Based Simulations and Effects with UE4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lFKZRX1K_0
- Apple TV app sizes must be less than 200MB: http://www.develop-online.net/news/apple-tv-app-sizes-limited-to-200mb/0211067
- Free Infinity Blade resources for UE4: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/free-infinity-blade-collection-marketplace-release
- Microsoft-related
- Ex-MS devs form a new studio named RedSix: http://www.develop-online.net/news/ex-microsoft-devs-form-new-studio-redsix/0210959
- Dell and HP to resell Surface Pro tablets: http://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-hp-to-resell-microsofts-surface-pro-tablets/
- Minecraft for Win10 update: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/09/08/minecraft-windows-10-edition-beta-gets-an-update/
- Xbox Live Indie Games is shutting down: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xna/archive/2015/09/09/xblig-program-announcement.aspx
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
- How Miyamoto built Mario's 1-1: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253150/How_Miyamoto_built_Marios_legendary_World_11.php
- Where does all the Kickstarter money go?: http://www.develop-online.net/news/ron-gilbert-s-budget-breakdown-where-does-all-that-kickstarter-money-go/0210980
- Mario Myths with Mr. Miyamoto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2DnTd3dEo
- The long shadow of Super Mario Bros.: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253377/The_long_shadow_of_Super_Mario_Bros.php