Three former Epic Games veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to challenge Unity and Unreal, which together powered roughly 70% of games released on Steam in 2025. The new engine aims to bre…
Only 13% of games released on Steam in 2024 ran on custom engines, down from 71% in 2012, yet those games pulled in roughly 40% of Steam's revenue, according to Video Game Insights. Team KwaKwa, the L…
A developer built Dub Any Video, a tool that dubs video courses into another language using local text-to-speech, after finding the best Godot course was in Spanish and dubbing services were too expen…
A developer assessed the feasibility of a 10-month game development project for a hybrid RTS-roguelike game, highlighting significant risks due to limited experience, resources, and time constraints. …
A developer who recreated the UFO 50 mini-game Party House in the browser credits AI tool Claude for writing roughly 80% of the final code, with the original prototype built by hand. The project, rele…
A developer fixed a Godot 4 bug in their game Nocturne Vania where a stale global class cache caused parse errors on local startup but passed CI. The issue occurred because CI imported the project bef…
React Native with Skia is a viable option for 2D mobile games, according to Shopify's react-native-skia library, which enables native canvas rendering at 60fps. The approach, used in the game 'Build Y…
In a benchmark of AI coding agents building a Flappy Bird game in Unity, Claude Opus 5 scored 10/10 and shipped a working game with a 306-line PlayMode test suite, while Claude Sonnet 5 scored 5/10 be…
Hamon Ray Games released Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management game built with Godot, where players keep a heart beating by supplying resources. The developer seeks feedback on the gamepl…
JetBrains released Rider 2026.2 on July 22, introducing Agent Skills that expose IDE analysis capabilities—profiler data, coverage maps, refactoring intelligence, and framework knowledge—directly to e…
Ziva's Godot Benchmark 2 finds Claude Opus 5 is the only model that produces a playable 3D vampire survivor game, scoring 8/10 for world quality and 9/10 for conversation, but costing $65.64 and takin…
Indie developer dualface released Qscreen, a tmux-like session manager for Windows PowerShell that keeps AI coding agent sessions alive even when the terminal window is closed. The tool, available on …
A developer's Repository Harness benchmark, run 30 times, showed that selective context routing did not reduce token usage but made agent behavior substantially more predictable. The harness routed on…
A developer at SEELE AI built a transition ledger to debug a five-wave Godot 4.6 dungeon loop in an internal Dungeon Master Tycoon prototype. The ledger records key state handoffs between build, prepa…
Linux founder Linus Torvalds declared that Linux is not an anti-AI project, stating in a Linux Kernel Mailing List message that AI is a useful tool and that developers who disagree can "fork it or jus…
The Godot game engine banned autonomous AI agents from opening pull requests on June 30, citing that 'AI cannot take responsibility' and that maintainers cannot trust heavy AI users to understand thei…
JetBrains released the Rider 2026.2 Release Candidate, opening the IDE's intelligence to AI coding agents and natively integrating GitHub Copilot. The update delivers performance gains including ~2.8s…
JetBrains has opened its call for speakers for GameDev Days 2026, a free online event on September 28, 2026, seeking talks on practical game development topics including AI-assisted workflows, engine …
A developer released an experimental Godot 4.7 project that runs Gemma 4 inference entirely in GDScript and Vulkan compute shaders, without external dependencies. The project is about an order of magn…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family built a complete, playable Flappy Bird clone in Godot with zero GDScript errors across all three variants on July 9, with Luna costing $0.17, Terra $1.15, and Sol $1.59, while …