I usually reserve these pages for tools aimed at beginners or game designers who are more interested in results than nice tech. Of course, when you have two astounding game engines leaping at your face and screaming, “I’m free! I’m free!” it’s generally time to sit up and take notice. Prepare to meet the Unreal [...]

You’ve been yammered at before about the possibility of console development, but a recent innovation may just interest you even more than those ramblings about XNA, coding, and all that related madness. In fact, this one is touted as being aimed at complete beginners (even children) so there’s really no excuse for you to cross [...]

To most garage or basement developers (whichever particular room you prefer, really), console development is as alien a concept as certain NAG writers admitting to the fact that they enjoy playing JRPGs. The humble PC seems to be the only avenue for easy game creation – or rather, you’d be forgiven for thinking so until [...]

“Where are all the South African game dev studios?” we hear you cry. “Surely if we claim to have potential, there must be a company or two out there doing some cool stuff?” Cease your lamentations, little one. The fairy godmother has just landed on your shoulder, sprinkled some generic magical powder over your face, [...]

Hey! What’s that shiny little bauble that Microsoft’s waving in our faces now? Why, it appears to be a game development competition! Gadzooks! As it turns out, the IT giant has just announced the beginning of its 2009 Dream-Build-Play challenge, a game development competition that allows everyday Joes and Janes to pick up their dev [...]