Crown Engine

Spent a couple days adding a proper HSV color chooser to @crownengine.org

Crown (game engine) Crown is a complete, open-source, and cross-platform game engine designed for flexibility, performance, and fast iteration cycles, emphasizing a data-oriented and data-driven design philosophy written...

@crownengine.org is now on Grokipedia. The article contains lots of AI slop, but its weaker sections are easy to spot and ignore, and much of the content is factually accurate. Useful as a quick project overview:

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2025 was a year packed with hard work on #CrownEngine. Late nights, tough challenges and endless iterations. But looking back, we're satisfied with all the things accomplished and can't wait to share the highlights in this thread. Let's get into it! 👇

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...and, if that wasn't enough, we also fixed more than 100 issues and added several smaller features along the way! Head over to crownengine.org/news to discover all the exciting changes we made in 2025, and stay tuned for an even more exciting 2026!

Oh! We almost forgot to mention that earlier in October we published a Tech Demo playable online, showcasing some of the newly added features...

The sound subsystem was a bit lacking, so we decided to update it by adding full support for Audio Streaming and OGG/Vorbis playback!

The Project Browser has seen a complete overhaul: now with Global Search, Thumbnails, Sorting Options, improved Drag & Drop and multiple View Modes.

On the Level Editor front, Units can now be saved as prefabs for easy reuse. We even threw in a dedicated Unit Editor to quickly edit and reload prefabs on-the-fly.

A resource importer for the very popular FBX format has been added, with the ability to extract textures, materials, lights, cameras, skeletons and animation clips.

Gameplay programmers will be pleased to know that the Mover component has made into production! Add it to your characters to gain instant and robust collide-and-slide capabilities.

In Crown's latest release, we also added a new State Machine Editor for configuring 3D Skeletal Animations.

We added Shadow Mapping support to all light types! The brightest directional light in the Level uses CSMs, while local lights are packed together in an atlas using a mix of different techniques.

We kicked things off by introducing a brand-new PBR pipeline, complete with a revisited Skybox renderer and new Global Lighting, Fog, Tonemap and Bloom components. Plus, many rendering parameters are now exposed for tweaking via a dedicated .render_config resource.

2025 was a year packed with hard work on #CrownEngine. Late nights, tough challenges and endless iterations. But looking back, we're satisfied with all the things accomplished and can't wait to share the highlights in this thread. Let's get into it! 👇

#gamedev #indiedev

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space

A "certain" news site just wrote about us... 👀

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Crown 0.60 Crown 0.60 is out! This major update introduces significant new features and improvements throughout the engine. A brand new Unit Editor has been added for editing prefabs, along with a State Machine…

Crown 0.60 is out! This major update introduces significant new features and
improvements throughout the engine. Plus, it contains fixes for 29 bugs!

Changelog & Download: www.crownengine.org/news/crown-0...

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Crown 0.59.4 is out! This tiny release fixes spot lights shadows on Windows and cascaded shadow maps on all platforms.

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.59.0...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download

Crown v0.59.3 is out with 4 bug fixes:

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.59.0...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download

Crown v0.59.2 is out with fixed materials hot-reload and no more errors when opening large levels. And some more:

📜 Changelog: buff.ly/R5HnHoi
💾 Download: buff.ly/wKIxUV9

🕹️ Play the demo: buff.ly/iuwfi2s

Crown v0.59.1 is out! This is a tiny release with fixed state machine creation, improved compatibility with Linux systems and better input detection on Windows.

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.59.0...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download

Say hello to project-wise searching - now on master!👋

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€1 in. Who's next? 😏

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To celebrate the revamped 01-physics sample, we made it playable online! Try it now: www.crownengine.org/play/

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To celebrate the revamped 01-physics sample, we made it playable online! Try it now: www.crownengine.org/play/

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Moreover, the Physics sample has been updated to showcase several new features. Play it on your browser at crownengine.org/play!

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download
❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund

Crown 0.59 is out! This is a *massive* update with many rendering-related additions, a new physics Mover for controlling characters, improved 3D sounds, redesigned scripting callbacks, a new Writing Gameplay manual section and the usual batch of bug fixes. [1/2]👇

Visit our fund page and select BTC from the currency dropdown: crownengine.org/fund

We now accept Bitcoin donations!

Been quietly building @crownengine.org for a while now, and seeing feedback like this makes it all feel worth it.
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📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download
❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund