This Week in Game Engines #1

Welcome to the first issue of This week in Game Engines! This will be a recurrent blog post on gamedev news, articles, and related tech development content from the week before.

This format of weekly news was greatly inspired by This week in Rust. Most of the content is automatically added to the post via official RSS feeds from Game Engines websites, and miscellaneous gamedev content is hand-picked from suggestions and news aggregators such as hackernews, lobste.rs and gamedev.city.

Game Engine News:

• Godot: Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 2
• Godot: Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1
• Verge3D: Verge3D 4.9 for 3ds Max and Maya
• Verge3D: Verge3D 4.9 for Blender Released
• Phaser: Phaser Editor 4.11.0 Released
• RPG Paper Maker: More mouse options
• Castle: TCastleTransformReference improvements – intuitive transf...
• Unity: GDC 2025 Recap: Trends, Engine Roadmap, & Celebrating Games
• Unity: What’s next: A look at Unity’s 2025 roadmap
• Unreal Engine: Free Epic learning content for March: Gameplay, materials...
• Unreal Engine: Taking archviz from Twinmotion to UEFN (via Unreal Engine)
• Unreal Engine: OVAL LABS | Studio Demo Reel

Git Activity:

• UPBGE: Weekly UPBGE Build
• Eldiron: Eldiron Creator v0.8.21
• Defold: v1.9.9 - beta
• Phaser: Phaser v4.0.0 Beta 8
• Ren'Py: Ren'Py 8.3.7
• Pyxel: Pyxel 2.3.17
• Solarus: Olivier Cléro deleted project branch oclero/update-doc-re...
• PlayCanvas: v2.6.0
• FLAME: flame-v1.26.1: chore(release): Publish packages (#3535)
• Bevy: v0.16.0-rc.1
• Drag[en]gine: Drag[en]gine Game Engine Release 1.25.2
• Macroquad: v0.4.14
• Nu: Gaia user interface enhancements + more fixes!
• Castle: Latest release of Castle Game Engine (Auto-Updated Snapshot)
• MEG-4: bzt commented on issue #19 at bzt / meg4
• PixiJS: v8.9.0
• Decker: v1.54
• Intersect: 0.8.0-beta.535
• Ikemen GO: nightly
• Flecs: Flecs v4.0.5
• KAPLAY: 4000.0.0-alpha.17
• Turbo Rascal Syntax Error: nightly
• Spartan Engine: Spartan v2025.03.23.05.37
• Nazara Engine: Nightlies
• Snap!: v10.6.3
• Butano: 19.1.0

Miscellaneous:

• The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively
• VIC 20 Ultima III - Journey Onward
• Golang on the PlayStation 2

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