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Rust GameDev: Newsletter Changes

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Hey everyone, it’s been a while! As you’ve certainly noticed, the newsletter has
been on hiatus for some months. The reason was mostly maintainer burnout, which is
also why the …

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Dev Planet in Engine, Tools | 2024-05-02 | Comment

Libre Arts: Elektroid 3.0 released

David García Goñi released a brand new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation.
New features in this version:

Audio recording
Initial editing of samples
Auto sampler
Search …

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2024-01-21 | Comment

Rust GameDev: Rust Gamedev Meetup 33

The 33rd Rust Gamedev Meetup took place on December 9th. You can watch the
recording of the meetup here on YouTube. The meetup took
place on the Rust Gamedev YouTube and Twitch.
The meetups take place on the second Saturday of every month via the R…

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Dev Planet in Engine, Tools | 2023-12-08 | Comment

Libre Arts: New in GIMP: paint tools can autoexpand layers now

Automatically expanding layers is a new feature coming in the next development release of GIMP. Let’s see how it works, where it excels and where it needs further improvement.
Expanding the layers
Let’s say we have a 4K image with a smaller…

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2023-11-26 | Comment

Libre Arts: GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule

Jehan Pages who is the lead developer and maintainer of GIMP made an announcement on Patreon yesterday. GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2024. The plan is to announce the release at the next Libre Graphics Meeting conference in Fran…

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2023-11-23 | Comment

Rust GameDev: This Month in Rust GameDev #49 – August 2023

Welcome to the 49th issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup’s
monthly newsletter.
Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta:
safety, concurrency, and speed.
These goals are well-aligned with game development.
We hope to build an inviting ecosystem…

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Dev Planet in Engine, Tools | 2023-11-16 | Comment

Rust GameDev: Rust Gamedev Meetup 32

The 32nd Rust Gamedev Meetup took place on November 11th. You can watch the
recording of the meetup here on YouTube. The meetup took
place on the Rust Gamedev YouTube and Twitch.
The meetups take place on the second Saturday of every month via the …

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Dev Planet in Engine, Tools | 2023-11-10 | Comment

Libre Arts: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?

Disclaimer: this post is an extended transcript of the video below.

If you’ve been around long enough, you probably remember a project called Glimpse. Originally it was an attempt to create a fork of GIMP for the name change. Then that pro…

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2023-11-08 | Comment

Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 7 November 2023

Week highlights: new major releases of Audacity, BlenderBIM, SpectMorph, new features in GIMP.

Edited transcript of the video goes below.
GIMP
Jacob Boerema added support for 16- and 32- bit per channel DDS files in GIMP, which should make quite…

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2023-11-07 | Comment

Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 30 October 2023

Week highlights: new features coming to GIMP and Krita, Scribus is getting a facelift with Indigo UI, FreeCAD is undergoing a sketching workflow revamp, Ardour is getting Launchpad X support.
As an experiment, I made a video version of the recap. I’m g…

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Dev Planet in Art, Tools | 2023-10-30 | Comment

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