11-23-2018, 06:13 PM
Black Friday Deals For Game Developers 2018
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/black-friday-deals-for-game-developers-2018.png" width="384" height="218" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>As has become a tradition here on GameFromScratch, every year we track down and present the best Black Friday deals of interest for game developers. This year is no <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/image.axd?picture=image_3416.png"><img width="384" height="218" title="image" align="right" alt="image" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/black-friday-deals-for-game-developers-2018.png" border="0" /></a>exception, so here they are! Although it is becoming less and less of a thing, this page will also track applicable Cyber Monday deals as well. If you know of a missing deal, let me know in the comments down below and I will do my best to add it.</p>
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<h3>3D Coat (<a href="https://3dcoat.com/home/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>3D Coat is a 3D sculpting, paintings and PBR texturing application that is currently $100 off during Black Friday, valid through Nov 26th.</p>
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<h3>Adobe (<a href="https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=JCNCWNFT&mv=other">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Adobe are offering 25% off their entire creative suite annual subscription service. This includes seminal products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate and more.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>APress (<a href="https://www.apress.com/us/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Any aPress published ebook for $7.</p>
<h3>Affinity Paint/Designer (<a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>All Serif products are currently 30% off for Black Friday, including Affinity Designer, Painter and Painter for iOS. If you want to learn more about Affinity Designer, check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPOa32Jw6cA">recent video</a>.</p>
<h3>Allegorithmic (Substance) (<a href="https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/substance-monster-discount-2018">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Save 33% on annual subscriptions for their Substance Suite of PBR texturing tools (Painter, Designer, B2M). For more information on Substance Painter, check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv55j_nJhvY">recent hands on video</a>.</p>
<h3>Amazon</h3>
<p>Amazon is always heavily involved in Black Friday and sell a wealth of software and hardware that’s useful for game developers. I will be updating this category as deals come online.</p>
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QbKTG2">Asus GX501 15” Ultra Portable GeForce 1070 Laptop $400 Off</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QdaRIX">Corel Draw 30% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DQzK7z">Corel Painter 2019 33% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=gbps_rlm_m-9_62c3_901a934e?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=B07GG6286Y%7CB06WP7JNW4%7CB06ZYX8DQ3%7CB07GFTMKMM%7CB07H7Q34X5&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=4d52f7fa-20b0-4bf9-a290-13e96d3f62c3&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=15529609011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=B5DCDVBXEGY2W5YRB69W">CyberPowerPC PC Towers – @20% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2qXYzpK">Dell XPS 15 Laptop with 1050 Geforce $200 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DFKAwx">Gigabyte Aero 15x 1070 Thin Laptop $550 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DSfGSi">Google PixelBook 19% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2FzkCgF">MacBook Pro 13” $100 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2Kpjmv9">MSI GS63VR Stealth $350 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2Kpjmv9">Microsoft Surface Go 10% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2KsNuWG">Logitech MX Master 50% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DVdUQg">Oculus Rift $50 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DPJ2Rv">Razer Blade Stealth $200 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DSEnhB">Samsung Monitors @25% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QcDk1B">Samsung Tablets 33-44% Off</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2R6D8y2">Smith Micro Software (Anime Studio, MoHo, Poser, etc) – Moho 30% off</a></p>
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<h3>CGTrader (<a href="https://www.cgtrader.com/sale">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>CG Trader are offering up to 50% discount on 3D models this Black Friday.</p>
<h3>ClipPaint Studio (<a href="https://www.clipstudio.net/en">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>ClipPaint Studio (the successor to Manga Studio) is an anime style painting application that is currently 50% off for Black Friday.</p>
<h3>The Foundry (<a href="https://www.foundry.com/news-awards/modo-black-friday-2018">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>The Foundry are offering 30% discounts to Modo subscriptions and 15% off maintenance.</p>
<h3>Humble Bundle RPG Game Dev Bundle (<a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/software/rpg-game-dev-bundle?partner=gamefromscratch">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Technically not a Black Friday sale, but the Humble RPG Game Dev Bundle is going on during the same period. Now with an improved license, you can get a ton of RPG related graphics, music and icons for a low price while helping charity. I got hands-on with the bundle <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1hKt3aJ-U">in this video</a>.</p>
<h3>Marmoset (<a href="https://marmoset.co/posts/black-friday-starts-now-save-up-to-50-on-marmoset-software/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Save up to 50% on all Marmoset Software, such as Toolbag, Viewer and Hexels. See Hexels in action <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSi1XCdzYA">in this video</a>.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Microsoft Store (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/black-friday">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>The Microsoft store is an ecceletic mix of software, computers and devices, with a variety of items on sale during Black Friday such as laptops, tablets and VR headsets.</p>
<h3>PluralSight (<a href="https://learn.pluralsight.com/offers/2018/black-friday?growid=BFHP">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Pluralsight offer online training and courses. Their Black Friday sale includes 33% off on subscriptions.</p>
<h3>Packt Books (<a href="https://www.packtpub.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>All eBooks and videos from Packt Publishing are available for $10 during the sale.</p>
<h3>Quixel (<a href="https://megascans.se/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Quixel’s sale doesn’t actually start until Black Friday. Generally its a discount of their texturing software as well as their texture resources.</p>
<h3>Safari Books Online (<a href="https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/cybermonday-2018.html">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Safari Books is O’Reilly Press’ online book repository, offering full access to thousands of computer related books. This sale, good through Monday, is good for 50% off an annual subscriptions, a $200 value.</p>
<h3>Steam Autumn Sale (<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Steam is also having their annual autumn sale with tons of game development software available at discounted pricing.</p>
<h3>TurboSquid (<a href="https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models?only_discounted=1">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>TurboSquid is offering select 3D models from their catalog for up to 40% off.</p>
<h3>Udemy (<a href="https://www.udemy.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Udemy is offering most of their thousands of online courses for $10 each.</p>
<h3>Unity Asset Store (<a href="http://prf.hn/click/camref:1011l4rAy">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>There are sales across the entire Unity Asset Store for Black Friday, generally 50% off or better. Pretty much all kinds of assets are currently on sale, models, plugins, tools, you name it. They have also organized several discounted bundles specifically for Black Friday.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/essentials-for-professionals?aid=1011l4rAy">Unity Essentials Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/world-building?aid=1011l4rAy">Unity World Building Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/ultimate-characters?aid=1011l4rAy&utm_source=aff">Unity Ultimate Characters Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/quick-prototyping?aid=1011l4rAy&utm_source=aff">Unity Quick Prototyping Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
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<h3>Unreal Engine Marketplace (<a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/event-sale">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Unreal Engine aren’t having a Black Friday sale… they are having a “Fall Sale”. Same thing, different label. Save up to 90% off on 3,100 items in their online asset store. The “totally not a Black Friday” sale ends on November 27th.</p>
<h3>YoYo Games (<a href="https://www.yoyogames.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>YoYoGames are offering 20% off all licenses for all GameMaker products.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/black-friday-deals-for-game-developers-2018.png" width="384" height="218" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>As has become a tradition here on GameFromScratch, every year we track down and present the best Black Friday deals of interest for game developers. This year is no <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/image.axd?picture=image_3416.png"><img width="384" height="218" title="image" align="right" alt="image" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/black-friday-deals-for-game-developers-2018.png" border="0" /></a>exception, so here they are! Although it is becoming less and less of a thing, this page will also track applicable Cyber Monday deals as well. If you know of a missing deal, let me know in the comments down below and I will do my best to add it.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>3D Coat (<a href="https://3dcoat.com/home/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>3D Coat is a 3D sculpting, paintings and PBR texturing application that is currently $100 off during Black Friday, valid through Nov 26th.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Adobe (<a href="https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=JCNCWNFT&mv=other">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Adobe are offering 25% off their entire creative suite annual subscription service. This includes seminal products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate and more.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>APress (<a href="https://www.apress.com/us/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Any aPress published ebook for $7.</p>
<h3>Affinity Paint/Designer (<a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>All Serif products are currently 30% off for Black Friday, including Affinity Designer, Painter and Painter for iOS. If you want to learn more about Affinity Designer, check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPOa32Jw6cA">recent video</a>.</p>
<h3>Allegorithmic (Substance) (<a href="https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/substance-monster-discount-2018">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Save 33% on annual subscriptions for their Substance Suite of PBR texturing tools (Painter, Designer, B2M). For more information on Substance Painter, check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv55j_nJhvY">recent hands on video</a>.</p>
<h3>Amazon</h3>
<p>Amazon is always heavily involved in Black Friday and sell a wealth of software and hardware that’s useful for game developers. I will be updating this category as deals come online.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QbKTG2">Asus GX501 15” Ultra Portable GeForce 1070 Laptop $400 Off</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QdaRIX">Corel Draw 30% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DQzK7z">Corel Painter 2019 33% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=gbps_rlm_m-9_62c3_901a934e?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=B07GG6286Y%7CB06WP7JNW4%7CB06ZYX8DQ3%7CB07GFTMKMM%7CB07H7Q34X5&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=4d52f7fa-20b0-4bf9-a290-13e96d3f62c3&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=15529609011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=B5DCDVBXEGY2W5YRB69W">CyberPowerPC PC Towers – @20% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2qXYzpK">Dell XPS 15 Laptop with 1050 Geforce $200 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DFKAwx">Gigabyte Aero 15x 1070 Thin Laptop $550 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DSfGSi">Google PixelBook 19% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2FzkCgF">MacBook Pro 13” $100 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2Kpjmv9">MSI GS63VR Stealth $350 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2Kpjmv9">Microsoft Surface Go 10% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2KsNuWG">Logitech MX Master 50% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DVdUQg">Oculus Rift $50 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DPJ2Rv">Razer Blade Stealth $200 Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2DSEnhB">Samsung Monitors @25% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2QcDk1B">Samsung Tablets 33-44% Off</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://amzn.to/2R6D8y2">Smith Micro Software (Anime Studio, MoHo, Poser, etc) – Moho 30% off</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>CGTrader (<a href="https://www.cgtrader.com/sale">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>CG Trader are offering up to 50% discount on 3D models this Black Friday.</p>
<h3>ClipPaint Studio (<a href="https://www.clipstudio.net/en">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>ClipPaint Studio (the successor to Manga Studio) is an anime style painting application that is currently 50% off for Black Friday.</p>
<h3>The Foundry (<a href="https://www.foundry.com/news-awards/modo-black-friday-2018">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>The Foundry are offering 30% discounts to Modo subscriptions and 15% off maintenance.</p>
<h3>Humble Bundle RPG Game Dev Bundle (<a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/software/rpg-game-dev-bundle?partner=gamefromscratch">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Technically not a Black Friday sale, but the Humble RPG Game Dev Bundle is going on during the same period. Now with an improved license, you can get a ton of RPG related graphics, music and icons for a low price while helping charity. I got hands-on with the bundle <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1hKt3aJ-U">in this video</a>.</p>
<h3>Marmoset (<a href="https://marmoset.co/posts/black-friday-starts-now-save-up-to-50-on-marmoset-software/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Save up to 50% on all Marmoset Software, such as Toolbag, Viewer and Hexels. See Hexels in action <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSi1XCdzYA">in this video</a>.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Microsoft Store (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/black-friday">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>The Microsoft store is an ecceletic mix of software, computers and devices, with a variety of items on sale during Black Friday such as laptops, tablets and VR headsets.</p>
<h3>PluralSight (<a href="https://learn.pluralsight.com/offers/2018/black-friday?growid=BFHP">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Pluralsight offer online training and courses. Their Black Friday sale includes 33% off on subscriptions.</p>
<h3>Packt Books (<a href="https://www.packtpub.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>All eBooks and videos from Packt Publishing are available for $10 during the sale.</p>
<h3>Quixel (<a href="https://megascans.se/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Quixel’s sale doesn’t actually start until Black Friday. Generally its a discount of their texturing software as well as their texture resources.</p>
<h3>Safari Books Online (<a href="https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/cybermonday-2018.html">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Safari Books is O’Reilly Press’ online book repository, offering full access to thousands of computer related books. This sale, good through Monday, is good for 50% off an annual subscriptions, a $200 value.</p>
<h3>Steam Autumn Sale (<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Steam is also having their annual autumn sale with tons of game development software available at discounted pricing.</p>
<h3>TurboSquid (<a href="https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models?only_discounted=1">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>TurboSquid is offering select 3D models from their catalog for up to 40% off.</p>
<h3>Udemy (<a href="https://www.udemy.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Udemy is offering most of their thousands of online courses for $10 each.</p>
<h3>Unity Asset Store (<a href="http://prf.hn/click/camref:1011l4rAy">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>There are sales across the entire Unity Asset Store for Black Friday, generally 50% off or better. Pretty much all kinds of assets are currently on sale, models, plugins, tools, you name it. They have also organized several discounted bundles specifically for Black Friday.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/essentials-for-professionals?aid=1011l4rAy">Unity Essentials Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/world-building?aid=1011l4rAy">Unity World Building Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/ultimate-characters?aid=1011l4rAy&utm_source=aff">Unity Ultimate Characters Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
<p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/g/quick-prototyping?aid=1011l4rAy&utm_source=aff">Unity Quick Prototyping Bundle – 55% Off</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Unreal Engine Marketplace (<a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/event-sale">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>Unreal Engine aren’t having a Black Friday sale… they are having a “Fall Sale”. Same thing, different label. Save up to 90% off on 3,100 items in their online asset store. The “totally not a Black Friday” sale ends on November 27th.</p>
<h3>YoYo Games (<a href="https://www.yoyogames.com/">Store Link</a>)</h3>
<p>YoYoGames are offering 20% off all licenses for all GameMaker products.</p>
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