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Building @crownengine.org. Data-Oriented. Gamedev. Skeptic. White noise addicted.
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@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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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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January 15, 2026 at 3:09 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! 👇

#gamedev #indiedev
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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@crownengine.org's 2025 Year In Review!
crownengine.org Crown Engine @crownengine.org · 15d
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
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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A "certain" news site just wrote about us... 👀

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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
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December 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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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December 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Crown v0.59.3 is out with 4 bug fixes:

📜 Changelog: docs.crownengine.org/html/v0.59.0...
💾 Download: crownengine.org/download
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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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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
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Short thread: how I convinced someone to give me €1 for my nonprofit - 1/
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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To celebrate the revamped 01-physics sample, we made it playable online! Try it now: www.crownengine.org/play/

#gamedev #indiedev #opensource
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 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
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I've just released @crownengine.org 0.56. It contains two months' worth of improvements and fixes, go check it out!
crownengine.org Crown Engine @crownengine.org · Jun 4
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
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 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

#CrownEngine #gamedev #opensource
June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Been quietly building @crownengine.org for a while now, and seeing feedback like this makes it all feel worth it.
#gamedev #opensource
June 1, 2025 at 4:27 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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
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

#CrownEngine #gamedev
January 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM