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Crown is a complete and cross-platform game engine designed for flexibility, performance, and fast-iterations.

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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!
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Oh! We almost forgot to mention that earlier in October we published a Tech Demo playable online, showcasing some of the newly added features...
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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The sound subsystem was a bit lacking, so we decided to update it by adding full support for Audio Streaming and OGG/Vorbis playback!
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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The Project Browser has seen a complete overhaul: now with Global Search, Thumbnails, Sorting Options, improved Drag & Drop and multiple View Modes.
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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In Crown's latest release, we also added a new State Machine Editor for configuring 3D Skeletal Animations.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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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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January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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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
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Say hello to project-wise searching - now on master!👋

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October 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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€1 in. Who's next? 😏

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October 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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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October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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]👇
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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We now accept Bitcoin donations!
September 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Crown v0.58 is out with a new fog simulation component, improved resource importing experience, greatly optimized mesh compilation times and the usual load of fixes!

Links in the reply 👇

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August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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

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June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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

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April 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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

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January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Crown 0.53 is out with a new API for 3D GUIs, conditional render states, refined Sprite and Font importers, thumbnails in the Project Tree and many Runtime fixes:

📜Changes: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.53.0...
💾Download: crownengine.org/download
❤️Donate: crownengine.org/fund

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January 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Crown 0.52 is out with ability to add/remove Unit components, many Camera enhancements, improved Gui subsystem, enriched Hi-DPI (SVG icons!), and some important Runtime corrections:

* Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.52.0...
* Download: crownengine.org/download

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January 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Crown 0.51 is out with fully editable Unit components, enhanced Graph capabilities, a new smoothed timestep policy, and the ability to add resources to Favorites!

📜 Changes: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.51.0...
💾Download: crownengine.org/download
❤️Donate: crownengine.org/fund

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January 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Crown 0.50 is out with greatly improved Project Browser and major runtime fixes and optimizations!

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.50.0...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download/
❤️ Donate: crownengine.org/fund

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January 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM