Daniele Bartolini
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Building @crownengine.org. Data-Oriented. Gamedev. Skeptic. White noise addicted.
🚀 Crown 0.63 is out! This is the biggest feature release in our history: many new systems, vastly improved tooling, and 30 bugs fixed. Grab it now 👇 crownengine.org/news/crown-0... #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
Crown 0.63
What's New After almost two months of development, The Crown Foundation is proud to present Crown 0.63 to the gamedev community! This release adds a new LOD Group component that lets you optimize per...
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Thank you to the first people who put their name behind Crown. 🙏 You can now see them on the supporters page: 👇️ www.crownengine.org/fund The 7-day founding supporter campaign is over, but support for Crown is still open, and still very appreciated!
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Crown 0.62 is out with improved editor workflows, better runtime behavior in larger scenes, and expanded input support across platforms. Changelog & Download: crownengine.org/news/crown-0... #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
Crown 0.62
Crown 0.62 is out! This release makes day-to-day work in the editor smoother, improves runtime behavior in larger scenes, and expands input support across platforms. On the runtime side, Crown 0.62…
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Preview of collaborative editing in @crownengine.org. Multiple people can work on the same level at the same time over TCP/IP. I'm curious how valuable this kind of workflow is in real production. Is this something your team would use? Should I invest more in it? #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
You know your engine is doing numbers when a complete stranger asks a machine to write a book about it. @crownengine.org has now reached that stage. I'm not affiliated with this AI-generated Amazon masterpiece in any way, which only makes it funnier. www.amazon.it/dp/B0GDQLD27...
Crown is growing up. We've published Crown's roadmap for the year ahead. It's not just more features, but a stronger engine, better workflows, and the foundations that make real projects possible. crownengine.org/roadmap #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
Crown 0.61.3 is out with 6 fixed issues that affected the previous version. Download & Changelog: crownengine.org/download #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
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No setup, no account, no internet required. Get a copy, unzip it and start creating.
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Spent last week refining the character controller, adding browser joypad support, and polishing the @crownengine.org physics online demo. Today, I've also added basic character animation!
🚀 Crown 0.61.1 is out! This release fixes 11 issues that affected the previous version. 💾 Download & Changelog: crownengine.org/download #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
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No setup, no account, no internet required. Get a copy, unzip it and start creating.
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Crown 0.61 is out with a new Vulkan backend, HSV color picker, flythrough navigation and greatly improved documentation! Changelog & Download: crownengine.org/news/crown-0... #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
Crown 0.61
This release upgrades the Linux rendering backend of Crown to a full Vulkan solution. That gives us a clean path for future performance work and fixes compatibility issues with tricky but increasingly...
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Spent a couple days adding a proper HSV color chooser to @crownengine.org
@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: grokipedia.com/page/crown-g...
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...
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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! 👇 #gamedev #indiedev
@crownengine.org's 2025 Year In Review!
Crown Engine@crownengine.org · 7mo ago2025 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
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... #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
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…
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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
To celebrate the revamped 01-physics sample, we made it playable online! Try it now: www.crownengine.org/play/ #gamedev #indiedev #opensource
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]👇
Crown 0.57 is out! Maintenance release: fixed shadow maps, hot-reloading and outlines rendering on Windows, plus various QoL tweaks. 📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/... 💾 Download: crownengine.org/download ❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund #CrownEngine #gamedev #opensource
I've just released @crownengine.org 0.56. It contains two months' worth of improvements and fixes, go check it out!
Crown Engine@crownengine.org · last yr.Crown 0.56 is out with cascaded shadow mapping, OGG/Vorbis sound streaming, improved text rendering and many important fixes: 📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/... 💾 Download: crownengine.org/download ❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund #CrownEngine #gamedev #opensource
Crown 0.56 is out with cascaded shadow mapping, OGG/Vorbis sound streaming, improved text rendering and many important fixes: 📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/... 💾 Download: crownengine.org/download ❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund #CrownEngine #gamedev #opensource
Been quietly building @crownengine.org for a while now, and seeing feedback like this makes it all feel worth it. #gamedev #opensource
Crown 0.55 is out with PBR, shader and material hot-reloading, FBX skeleton/animation importing, new Lua APIs, and tons of fixes: 📜Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/... 💾Download: crownengine.org/download ❤️Donate: crownengine.org/fund #CrownEngine #gamedev
Crown 0.54 is out with right-handed Z-up world coordinates, FBX scene importer, improved Project Browser, strengthened Data Compiler and more: 📜Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/latest/... 💾Download: crownengine.org/download ❤️Donate: crownengine.org/fund #CrownEngine #gamedev
