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It's time for free assets from Epic Games ... not just for #UnrealEngine this month, but also #Blender3d, #GodotEngine, #Unity3d and more!

Also, a new 3D asset pack from Kenney, a Unity publisher giveaway and more! All FREE

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#gamedev #indiedev
Unreal Feb Giveaway - Unity Giveaway - More – GameFromScratch.com
The Fab Unreal Engine Epci Games asset giveaway for Feb 10 - 24th, plus Unity Asset Store Giveaway and new Kenney.nl pack
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February 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Toyota - Yes, that Toyota, have just announced they are creating a new "console-grade" open source cross platform game engine - Fluorite, powered but Flutter.

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Toyota Create New Game Engine - Fluorite – GameFromScratch.com
Toyota have just announced they are working on an open source Flutter/Dart powered 3D console grade game engine called Fluorite
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February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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The Epic Game Store... and more specifically the Epic Games Launcher SUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKS!

Not just a little, it's literally one of the worst apps installed on my PC.

Thankfully Epic know this, agree and are finally fixing it!
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#gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine
Epic are Finally Fixing the Awful Epic Game Launcher – GameFromScratch.com
The Epic Game Store kinda sucks... well, especially the Epic Game Launcher DOES suck and now even Epic Games admit it and are fixing it
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February 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Today we check out EZ-Tree

It's a free and open source procedural tree generator that is shocking powerful. Easily create 3D trees for #UnrealEngine, #GodotEngine, #Unity3d, #Blender3D and more in just a few clicks.

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#gamdev #indiedev
EZ-Tree - Free Procedural Tree Generation Software – GameFromScratch.com
EZ-Tree is a free and open source web based tool for creating procedural game engine ready (godot, Unity, Unreal, Blender, etc) trees
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February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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The Flash era is finally over... Adobe have just announced that Adobe Animate is dead.

Adobe Animate is still used in a ton of game & animation studios, so no doubt this news isn't going to make Adobe many friends...

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Adobe Kill Off Adobe Animate – GameFromScratch.com
The Flash era has come to and end with Adobe end of life killing of Adobe Animate. We also talk adobe alternatives.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Want to learn #GodotEngine in 2026? Check out this new course bundle by @zenvaacademy.bsky.social. Contains mostly new to Humble courses, learn to dev 2D Action RPGs, Tower Defense games and more.

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#gamedev #indiedev
Learn Godot in 2026 Humble Course Bundle – GameFromScratch.com
The Learn Godot in 2026 with Zenva Humble Bundle is a collection of godot game development courses for Godot 4.4/4.5 games
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February 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Popular free & open-source code/text editor Notepad++ has been hacked!

Highly recommended you update to the newest release! Don't worry, it's not a virus, just having Notepad++ installed isn't enough.

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#gamedev #programming #indiedev
Notepad++ Hacked – GameFromScratch.com
Hackers have exploited a weakness in the popular open-source Windows based code editor Notepad++ to deliver highly targeted malicious code to exploited computers. For most Notepad++ users, you don’t h...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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As promised here is our closer look at the contents of the HUGE Battle Hardened Game Asset Humble Bundle for #UnrealEngine & #Unity3d by Hivemind.

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Battle Hardened Game Asset Hivemind Humble Bundle – GameFromScratch.com
The Hivemind Battle Hardened Game Assets Bundle is a huge collection of Unreal Engine and Unity gamedev assets
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January 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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There is a HUGE new Humble for #UnrealEngine and #Unity3d #gamedev.

It's from Hivemind, redeemed on both Fab and Unity Asset Store and contains highly modular and customizable environments.

Hands-on video tomorrow.

Direct bundle link supporting GFS - humblebundleinc.sjv.io/HivemindBundle
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January 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Blender just got a massive new backer -- Netflix.

Specifically Netflix Animation Studio has joined the Blender Development Foundation at the highest support tier

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#gamedev #indiedev #Blender3d
Netflix Join Blender Development Fund – GameFromScratch.com
Netflix, specifically Netflix Animation Studio (NAS) have just announced they are sponsoring Blender at the Corporate Patron level.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Get #Unity3d and #UnrealEngine low poly game assets in the Animpic Encore bundle (meaning it's a repeat!)

GFS supporting bundle Link - humblebundleinc.sjv.io/AnimpicEncore

#gamedev #indiedev
Best of Humble Bundle- Polygon Assets by Animpic Studio
We’ve bundled a massive collection of versatile and lightweight low-poly assets for game development! Featuring medieval, wild west, survivor themes and more.
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January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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3 in 1 #gamedev news -

- The State of Fab in 2025 released - is Fab Good Now?
- 3 New Game Asset Humble Bundles released
- Free #UnrealEngine (and #unity3d) Game Asset Giveaway!

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New Bundles - Fab Giveaway - The State of Fab – GameFromScratch.com
Fab Jan/Feb Free Asset giveaway - New Humble Gamedev Bundles - Is Fab Any Good Now... State of Fab in 2025 released
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January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Rejoice #GodotEngine fans.... Godot 4.6 has been released!

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Godot 4.6 Released – GameFromScratch.com
The open source Godot game engine just released Godot 4.6 with several new features including the modern passivestar theme
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January 26, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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A "spicy" secret $800M partnership between Google and Epic Games has just been revealed.

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#gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine
Secret $800M Google X Epic Games Partnership – GameFromScratch.com
A secret 800M partnership between Epic Games and Google involving google services, Fortnite and Unreal Engine has been revealed
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January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Want a HUGE library of 3D models....?

Well, you can download every model from the IKEA website using this script.

Would it be legal to use these models in any way...

HAHAHAHA...no. Not even a tiny little bit.

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GitHub - apinanaivot/IKEA-3D-Model-Download-Button: Adds ability to download models from IKEA website
Adds ability to download models from IKEA website. Contribute to apinanaivot/IKEA-3D-Model-Download-Button development by creating an account on GitHub.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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What high level programming comfort of languages like C#, C++ and Rust, but the low level predictability, performance and portability of C?

If you answered yes... check out Zen C.

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#gamedev #indiedev #programming
Zen C - A Better C Programming Language – GameFromScratch.com
Zen C is a new programming language that adds modern high level language features to C and transpiles down to C code
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January 22, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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This is Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit.

A new open-source #GodotEngine add-on for creating 3D Terrain for Pixel Art or retro style games. It's incredibly easy to use and pretty feature complete.

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#gamedev #indiedev
Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit for Godot – GameFromScratch.com
Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit is an open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables pixel art style 3D terrain.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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One of my favorite #opensource applications just updated!

Material Maker 1.5 has been released... it's the best free alternative to Substance Designer! Easily create procedural textures for #GodotEngine, #UnrealEngine and #Unity3d!

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Material Maker 1.5 Released – GameFromScratch.com
Material Maker 1.5 is here. The cross platform, free and open source Substance Designer alternative just keeps getting better
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January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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The future of the Hazel Engine and The Cherno YouTube channel both got a bit bleaker with today's announcement.

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RIP Hazel Engine? – GameFromScratch.com
The C++ powered Hazel Engine and The Cherno YouTube channel just got much murkier futures with this disappointing announcement
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January 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Mixcraft 10.6 is finally available on Humble!

Mixcraft is (IMHO) the easiest to learn Windows-based DAW. We go hands-on with this idiot-proof DAW... in the hands of perhaps the biggest audio idiot you could find... me! ;)

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Mixcraft 10.6 Humble Audio Bundle – GameFromScratch.com
The Make Music, Change Lives Humble Bundle is currently running on Humble. The star of this bundle is Mixcraft 10.6, which is (in my opinion) by far the easiest Windows DAW available. In addition to M...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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EA have open sourced an amazing tool for HLSL & GLSL shader development - ShaderToHuman.

Think of it like printf() meets Dear ImGUI. A super easy and powerful tool for developing and debugging shaders!

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ShaderToHuman: Shader Debugging for Mere Mortals – GameFromScratch.com
ShaderToHuman open sourced by Electronic Arts, makes debugging and developing HLSL and GLSL shaders a heck of a lot easier
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January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Bevy, the Rust-powered open-source game engine just released Bevy 0.18.

Realtime raytracing and PBR improvements, new cameras, full screen materials and more.

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#gamedev #indiedev #rustlang
Bevy 0.18 Released – GameFromScratch.com
The Bevy rust powered game development framework just released Bevy 0.18 with raytracing improvements, new cameras and much more
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January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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It's free #gamedev asset day! Epic Games are giving away 3 free #UnrealEngine assets ( including 2 #Unity3d assets and 1 universal asset usable in #GodotEngine, #Blender3d, etc). Get them before Jan 27th completely FREE.

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FAB GameDev Asset Giveaway [Jan 13th – Jan 27th] – GameFromScratch.com
It's the Epic Games Fab GameDev Asset Giveaway for January 2026 3 UE, Unity, Godot and More game ready assets free
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January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Haxe language creator and @shirogames.com founder Nicolas Cannasse just released Pico GPU.

It's a virtual GPU and could become the perfect introduction environment for shader development.

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Pico GPU - Virtual GPU For Learning Shaders – GameFromScratch.com
Haxe language and Shiro Games founder Nicolas Cannasse just released a new Virtual GPU Pico GPU, ideal for learning shader programming.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Today we are looking at an extremely cool project -- the Folded Paper Engine.

This project enables you to create a game entirely in Blender, then compile/run it using Godot!

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#gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
Folded Paper Engine - Blender to Godot – GameFromScratch.com
The Folded Paper Engine is an interesting project that enables you to author a game entirely in Blender, then build it in Godot.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM