Valve’s gift to the Left 4 Dead 2 customisation community has arrived with the release of official campaign authoring tools and add-on support. You want to play custom campaigns of your own or someone else’s creation? Go nuts. More »
The delayed SDK for Left 4 Dead 2 has been a bummer to that robust modding community, but now they have news that softens their disappointment: When it arrives, the kit will support custom survivors, infected, weapons, you name it. More »
Epic Games announced more than 50,000 downloads of its Unreal Development Kit in the first week the publisher started offering it for free. More »
Official support for community created campaigns has just been added to Left 4 Dead, thanks to the most recent update to the game. Valve has also updated the Left 4 Dead authoring tools—so get crackin’ map makers! More »
While the campaigns that shipped with Left 4 Dead were all pretty good, you do get sick of them after a while. Which is where custom, user-generated campaigns come in. More »
Valve today released an update to their Source SDK, and included within were the source files for most of Team Fortress 2′s original maps. Translation? It’s now a lot easier to edit Team Fortress 2 maps. More »
In all of the major announcement that hit during Apple’s software development kit (SDK) meeting today, it’s easy to overlook what may have been the most important aspect—the SDK itself. Formerly Apple’s internal development tools, the software package is being released to the entire public for no charge starting today. It doesn’t need an expensive or hard to acquire development kit. You don’t need to pitch Sony on why you’re worthy for a dev kit during times of shortages.
Hell, you don’t even need an iPhone (though it’s recommended). All you need is an OSX based Mac and, you know, a bit of genius and a lot of work ethic. (Apparently you can actually develop right on the iPhone as well…but who knows how well that’ll work.)
So you’re thinking, “But I want to sell my product on their Apple Store. That’ll cost me a tonne and be impossible”. Nope, it won’t be either of those things.
