New Starter Project BrakeNeck

Starter projects are a great way to begin your journey as a game developer or to learn about FlatRedBall. As of today Glue includes a new starter project called BrakeNeck, a top-down endless shooter which can be played by one or two players. BrakeNeck focuses on a few technologies and patterns: Extensive use of code-driven[…]

Steam Release: The Incredible Baron

FlatRedBall Studios is proud to announce that on Friday, May 27th, 2016, The Incredible Baron will be available for download on Steam! A culmination of several years of development and artwork, The Incredible Baron is a side-scrolling, real-time strategy game that draws influence from games like Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and Starcraft. Between January and February of[…]

New Starter Project: Star Blaster

As part of continuous improvement efforts, we are excited to announce a new starter project: Star Blaster. You can get started right away by updating FRBDK through the Glue update menu. Clicking file, new project, and then you will notice a difference in the new project creator: Select Star Blaster, a path, and then click[…]

Just press play!

  A new feature in Glue enables developers and designers to build and launch a game directly from Glue by just clicking a button. The feature, which requires Visual Studio, makes it easier to test a change made in Glue without the need to open the IDE at all! Just press play!  

FlatRedBacon!

After much anticipation, the often discussed event affectionately titled FRBacon (FlatRedBall Convention -> FRBCon -> FRBacon) took place over a gorgeous extended weekend in April in the hills overlooking Lehi, Utah: Festivities began on Thursday, March 31st when the first of the FlatRedBallers arrived: These handsome gentlemen above, from left to right, are: Adam, Victor, and Justin Most[…]

FRB + Xamarin on iOS and Android are now free!

Today is a great day for all indie developers – Microsoft just announced that Xamarin subscriptions are now free! You can develop games for iOS and Android without paying for a license. Click here to download the latest version of Visual Studio with Xamarin: https://store.xamarin.com/ There’s never been a better (and cheaper) time to develop[…]

Chat Needs You!

For a long time FlatRedBall has had an awesome, active community of game developers and programmers in our live chat system. However, keeping the chat integrated and working through site updates as well as keeping it spam free was a challenge. We’re trying something new. We invite you to try our new “Gitter” chat system,[…]