Handmade Engine Survey

I am doing a survey on Handmade Engines

If you're someone who is working on their own engine, to make their own game, please consider filling out the form!

https://forms.gle/uoKiiyxnazZupwBZ7

#gamedev #indiedev #enginedev #survey

Sudoku Pi’s Story Time: Where we talk a bit about the story behind Sudoku Pi came to be…

https://couchchilis.medium.com/sudoku-pi-story-time-62d8d2392130

We are excited to introduce a major improvement in funding the development efforts of the #GodotEngine – the Godot Development Fund!

Help us secure stable funding and ensure the longevity of the project 💙

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-developer-fund/

I just merged Bevy Asset V2, which is a brand new significantly more capable asset system for #bevy. We have some time before Bevy 0.12, so please give it a whirl so we can iron out the kinks before the next release!

It adds fully optional asset preprocessing, hot reloads, asset loader and saver settings, asset .meta files (fully optional), better asset handles, async asset io, efficient dense AssetIds, an improved loader interface, a preprocessor for images, and more!

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8624

Some common criticisms that I'm getting for my game are "include something that tells people to click on the arrows" and "better lighting (especially from the candle flames)".
I appreciate all of the feedback received so far. Thanks to all who have tried out the game. I'm going to make some updates over the next couple weeks and then we'll see if I either keep adding to it or let it rest.

https://austinhellerrepo.itch.io/birthday-blowout
#gamedev #gamejam #madewithunity

Today we're releasing a new paper on the potential for an ecolabelling scheme for digital #games. Boosts greatly appreciated so this idea gets in front of more devs!

Earlier this year I spent some time figuring out whether it would be useful to have some kind of 'ecolabel' for games – these sorts of labels are turning up on clothes, shoes, etc and say how much CO2 is embedded in a particular purchase.

Turns out, there's some unique challenges for the games industry in achieving this, but they're not insurmountable – in fact, they're probably pretty doable. The benefits are also pretty real – potentially catalysing greater transparency and data sharing across the entire gane production process.

Read more about the paper here:
https://gtg.benabraham.net/what-if-games-came-with-a-co2-emissions-label/

#ecolabel #climate #CO2 #emissions #sustainability