3D Gamestudio Gamedevelopment 3DGS A6 A7 - free engine tutorials models shaders textures codes

While browsing the indiegamer forums i found a post about sfxr wich is a little tool that generates sound effects. You just select a category of sound effect like ‘laser’ or ‘powerup’ from the left hand side of the tool. Sfxr then generates a random sound effect of this type and let you play around with a lot of variations. After you’re finished you can save the resulting sound as .wav file.
I had a blast trying this tiny 48k! program, its so funny and you immediatly think you are sitting in front of your old tv-console. Download it here or browse over to the sfxr site.

Another mirror can be found here.

Hey there, i especially like the days when a posting in the acknex users magazine forum at the gamestudio board starts with the words:

Dear friends, The new magazine is ready…

That means George has finished another episode of the fantastic users magazine. This time you will find the following in issue #69

- Who is afraid of lite-C? Read the “lite-C 101″ section of the magazine and you’ll learn more about Acknex’s programming language
- The menu code is fully finished and wrapped around a simple and (hopefully) fun game
- The great user contribution comes from Taco Cohen and JCL - it’s the new shader tutorial, packed with fully working shader examples
- IntenseX, the best AI package for GameStudio, is in the spotlight once again. Find out more about it, and then take a look at the screenshots or (even better) watch the fresh, never seen before movie that walks us through some of its most important features

Have fun reading it and drop George a big line of thank you!

As HeelX announced yesterday, a freeware xmas game with opensource litec code and a great tutorial will be released on christmas eve this year! He said:

“RUDI” is an open source Christmas game. Experience fun and action in a living & graphically stunning world packed with passion and wonder, elves, sweet penguins, eskimo villages and lots of gifts to collect. Travel around the world with Rudi - the presents got lost everywhere. Each gift you collect adds a sleigh to your chain.. don’t cross them! Santa will give you some delicious gingerbread cookies for every sleigh at the end of each level, so make sure to collect as many as possible!

Rudi is a game for everyone. Beginners can start promptly, without reading a manual. You will control Rudi with the cursor keys only. If you are a hardcore gamer, you will love it too, as some packets are really well-hidden and require a lot of skill to capture them.

As if that were not enough, we added a complete do-it-yourself game development workshop! Create your own games with the A7 game engine with ease and the help of this well-structured e-book. Learn about the development process, the game mechanics and its tricks. Code examples and pictures will guide you through it and make game development a pleasure.

One level demo featuring the Northpole will be released on Christmas Eve 2007.

You can also watch a gameplay movie here at YouTube. Or have a look at more screenshots here. I’m really excited about this project and the whole tutorial! Because i think they are a great gift for the 3dgs gamestudio community, especially because this is about A7 and litec.

Hey its christmas time… *jingle bells, jingle bells hummm* and a lot of users in the 3dgs forum are giving away free sourcecode, textures, sounds, and even models! So i just compiled a quick list of some things i find useful. Maybe you need one of those things. Thanks to the generous people giving this stuff away!

Position Cursor for A6 - by adoado
Free Pathfinding Script A*Star algorithm - by EpsiloN
Font Installing Dll(install & deinstall fonts) - by PadMalcom
Free Quality Lava Texture Pack - by Dan ‘the man’ Silverman
7 Tileable Textures that blend - by molotov
Render To Texture for all A6 Editions - by ChrisB
Free Barrels and Crates Texture Pack - by DEXSOFT

If i forgot your quality submission, just let me know in the comments so i can add them here.

Congratulations to Torsten Fock for winning the second place at the german contest ‘Newcomer Award’ sponsored by gamesload. This contest was especially for new or indie game developers during the german development award (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis). He won with his game ‘Messing Moves’ a gamestudio project , where you have to load all your belongings from your house into a big truck. Its a physics game if i’m not mistaken. Its nice to see someone using the 3DGS engine finish this high with lots of competition! The other teams that won, are big teams with at least 4 members - so Torsten can now make a big relaxation holiday with his 3000€ price and have all the cool drinks for himself and his girlfriend. See the german page for more information and pictures of the winners.

I just want to announce that i released version 1.1 of Marble Sheep! The new version has a total renewed control + camera system. You now control the marble with the keyboard and pan the camera around it using the mouse. The control was number one critics in the previous versions so i quickly fixed that. You can download the new demo version over at the Marble Sheep website. Let me know what you think about the new controls of cause. I also would like to thank all customers who bought the game and the thousands of people who tried it already. Owners of the full version will receive a free update to version 1.1 shortly.