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The FREE Trial Version of GameGuru is now available direct on Steam!  We released our non-Steam Free Trial version a few weeks ago, and it made sense that Steam users should also be able to easily test out GameGuru before deciding to buy.

The Free Trial version for Steam runs for 7 days and is fully functional except for disabled multiplayer and a reduced collection of 4GB of game assets to choose from. This gives users plenty of time to try out the software, create a few games and decide whether to be a fully-fledged member of the GameGuru community of game makers. 

This new Free Trial version comes hot on the heels of an amazing update that dramatically increased the performance of the engine, allowing games to run faster and contain more content in each game level.  This new trial version includes those improvements too and should bode well for users on lower-end systems.

To find the Free Trial version, simply go to the main GameGuru Steam page and look for the 'DOWNLOAD DEMO' button. If you want some inspiration for the kinds of games you can make with GameGuru, check out the work in progress section of the forums or try our gallery which contains games and projects our community have posted: https://www.game-guru.com/showcase

If your game levels require a medical element then look no further than the GameGuru Medical Pack! You get a great selection of large furniture and equipment items, as well as small objects and items that you can assemble for more variety. With these assets, you could create the interior of a hospital, a doctor's surgery, or a military experimentation lab, all the way through to technologically advanced scenes both on the ground and in space.



The GameGuru Medical Pack DLC is currently on promotion, so grab yourself a limited-time bargain and equip yourself with some of the best medical assets in the GameGuru universe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/964530/GameGuru__Medical_Pack/

Ancient Temples, Formiddable Defences, Knights Errants and Fantastic Treasure.  Four great reasons to pick up the Fantasy Pack to add to your GameGuru asset collection, but that's not all!

The amazing animating Firefly Aura can be used to great effect, leading your characters the right way in a maze, pointing out fabulous treasure for your hero to collect and even just being used as fireflies in a magical outdoor scene.  The choice my friend... is yours!



If you don't yet have the GameGuru Fantasy Pack DLC, we are currently running a promotion on Steam with a great discount, so there is no better time to add new characters, buildings, and weapons to your fantasy game making collection:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/365530/GameGuru__Fantasy_Pack/

We are pleased to release the September update of GameGuru, featuring some key fixes and a rather cool performance boost to keep your games running nice and fast. The core of the performance improvement, aside from shader tweaks, is the batching of similar entities just before the game starts. The draw call optimization only takes a few seconds during the level load phase but you get back so much more in terms of flat out frame rate.

On a typical i7 quad-core system running a GTX 1080 graphics card, the Big Escape level went from 99fps to 195fps with VSYNC switched off in the SETUP settings. That's almost a 100% improvement in game speed! We are eager to learn what kind of performance improvements you see in your own games with this latest update!

This magic can be seen in action by using the F11 key when in Test Game. Just run any unlightmapped level you have made in test game mode, press F11 and then press [9]. This will switch off all regular entities from the scene, leaving only the batched entities rendering. You can use this to see how much of your scene has been optimized, and if you also hide terrain, water, sky and other elements you can then press TAB TAB to see how many draw calls are being used to render the batched entities.  The trick to good batching is to ensure the entities use the same textures and shaders and are grouped together so they can be converted to a single conglomerate object behind the scenes.

In addition to performance, this update contains the following fixes and tweaks:

• F11 in Standalone no longer causes PBR debug layers to be rendered
  
• New system added to code allowing a new 'Docs\SETUP INI Description.txt' doc to be auto-created
  
• Improved MIXAMO FBX Importing (2-chain-finger in T-POSE), select 'Uber' in 'Is Character Field'
  
• Added Convex Hull collision shape to the physics system, use COLLISIONMODE in FPE to 9
  
• Fixed EXPORTASSETS flag in SETUP.INI to correctly export unencrypted entities with standalone 
  

As you may know, a lot of our more recent work is going on in the background, and part of a project that has been kept dark for the most part. We are almost finished with the non-disclosure part of the work and will soon be able to reveal all. What it means for GameGuru users is further bug fixes and tweaks that will come from this second work branch, and possibly some new features. We are still determined to keep new features away until we have wrestled most of the bugs and issues out of the current engine, so expect the next update to be predominantly bug fixes, including those from the GitHub repository.

We hope you enjoy the September update and look forward to bringing you another update or two before the end of the year as we continue to hammer away at the core of the product, ensuring its both fast and stable for your future game making projects!

This GameGuru Mega pack contains over 530 game ready entities. Expand your collection of assets with this pack and you'll have a huge range of new 3D objects to populate your games. The assets in the pack cover an Arabic town style, an asian cyberpunk style and a mystic's library. It's also packed with animating decals that will add more special effects to your GameGuru creations.



If you haven't already got the amazing GameGuru Mega Pack 1 DLC, it's on promotion right now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/321140/GameGuru_Mega_Pack_1/