Ziva, an AI assistant that works inside game engines to help developers build and finish games, claims its users complete games twice as fast, citing a median lifetime revenue of $3,947 for indie Stea…
Playco has built Playbot, an AI-powered IDE using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, which integrates with Unity and Godot and has cut manual fixes in half during prototype development, according to an OpenAI case…
JetBrains will host GameDev Day 2026 on September 28, a free online event featuring practical talks on game development tools and pipelines, with sessions on AI-assisted Figma-to-Unity integration, pr…
Across Micro Jam 056 to 063, 81 of 500 ranked entries (16%) declared use of Ziva, the Godot AI plugin, and 30 cash prizes totaling $675 were awarded to 27 different teams. Fire keeper by StarXgames wo…
Spritix AI, a new tool from an anonymous developer, converts 2D character references into game-ready animation assets such as idle, walk, run, jump, and attack sets. The tool maintains consistency acr…
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…
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…