The NeoAxis Engine has switched to a new free license. Within its framework, its full source code became available to developers.

The hyper casual game has Cool Goal! — more than 50 million installations. How the project was being prepared for release, how many stages it had to go through, — he told in his material for App2Top.ru the developer and publisher of the game is Gismart.

Another tool for JRPG lovers to be. Last week, the Japanese publisher Degica Games announced RPG Maker MZ, a new version of the designer /engine for creating two-dimensional role-playing games.

Unreal Engine 4.25 became available today. This is the first version of the engine with support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems.

Unity takes up work on the bugs. This year, she plans to optimize the engine, fix bugs, improve 2D tools and the asset editor, and develop a workflow with separate tabs. The team listed these and other innovations in a roadmap released in video and text format.

Google, as part of its online event, shared new figures and tools for developing games on Android. Including for graphics optimization and cross-platform support.

Which sources and sites should be monitored if you are developing hyper—casual games, – told in the material for App2Top.ru Anatoly Maksimov, developer and one of the founders of the Telegram channel HYPER CASUAL.

Distributions of mobile games are becoming more and more. Some blockbusters are several gigabytes in size. Presumably, Google plans to make it possible to play the novelty without waiting for all the files to be downloaded.

The Cyberpunk 2077 team asked for outside help. According to media reports, three local studios were involved in the work on the title. They are jointly trying to optimize the game for consoles.

Mojo Vision company will introduce contact lenses with augmented reality support in the future. $108 million has already been invested in the project.

How to develop an idle clicker using the Kolibri Games method,” says Nate Barker, Director of business Development at the studio.

What Voodoo has learned while working on Purple Diver,” says Alexander Shea, Voodoo’s publishing manager.

The SDK for tracking hands in Oculus Quest without a controller has been released to the public. Now this feature can be integrated into games and applications.

Swedish startup Coherence invested $2.5 million. With these funds, he plans to create a cloud platform for online game development.

A guideline for creating a comfortable and easily accessible game has appeared in the Microsoft hub. It can help creators of titles for both Xbox and other platforms.

Epic Games acquired the authors of Quixel Megascans. This is an extensive library of 2D and 3D assets. Soon it will be free for all Unreal Engine developers.

The authors of Angry Birds actively resort to machine learning for the development and operation of games. In the near future, they want to go even further. Rovio plans to create “individualized” games using artificial intelligence.

Many games are associated primarily with their heroes. Through the character design, you can show the setting, visual and narrative of the entire product. How to do it right, experts from Blizzard, Naughty Dog and two other studios tell.

A month ago, Remnant: From the Ashes was released. When creating it, Gunfire Games studio was looking for a balance between a cooperative passage, a linear plot and a randomly generated environment. Read more in this squeeze.