Game Dev News Roundup

News Roundup

With E3 coming up next week, I wanted to make sure that these pieces of news got reported on.

None seem to be large enough to merit their own post, so I thought I’d do a roundup of the news over the last week or so.

Assets

Develop Online has released a list of free game development tools.

Make your game for free http://t.co/7291L025Ou We've added a bunch of new free game development tools to the list. Check them out!

— DEVELOP (@developonline) May 21, 2014

Reddit user KenNL has released a set of boardgame assets under Creative Commons zero (CC0), allowing them to be used for free even in commercial applications.

https://twitter.com/gamedevrobot/status/470242593570570240

Unity

Unit Testing tips from Unity QA.

What's a proper unit test? Learn to do them by the book from Unity QA! http://t.co/mGzccz5nmC #unity3d

— Unity for Games (@unitygames) May 21, 2014

The AgeCheq app for Unity helps developers with compliance to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

New offering aims to take sting out of COPPA compliance for Unity devs http://t.co/ty9nwQP61H

— Game Developer (@gamedevdotcom) June 3, 2014

Unity Technologies has released Patch 4.3.7p2 to correct a number of outstanding issues.

The Sustained Engineering team have just released the latest patch, 4.3.7p2 For more info check the forum thread http://t.co/1axV6Xdect

— Unity for Games (@unitygames) May 29, 2014

Here is a preview of the UI system coming in Unity 4.6

Get an overview of the new UI system, upcoming in Unity 4.6 http://t.co/o8kCis8VrC #unity3d

— Unity for Games (@unitygames) May 28, 2014

A Game Starter Kit has been released for Unity developers, to help target Windows Store and Windows Phone Store games.

Remember the free windowsphone starter kit for Unity? A great framework to start up http://t.co/Zn44Pa6vSL #gamedev #indiedev

— dparente (@dparente) May 28, 2014

CryEngine

The CryAction and CryInput Source Code is one its way, and should be released next week, just in time for E3.

Time for a first update from the Team- we plan to release CryAction and CryInput Source Code next week! Full details: http://t.co/bVQaXLCWCq

— CRYENGINE (@cryengine) May 30, 2014

GameMaker: Studio

Developers with the full version of GameMaker can now target and build for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

GameMaker: Studio devs can now publish for PS4 and Vita http://t.co/BYyzNqrRRq

— Game Developer (@gamedevdotcom) May 30, 2014