Welcome to This week in Game Engines! This is a recurrent digest on gamedev news and articles 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.
This week we have a 001 Game Creator showcase, updates from Castle Engine, Armory3D and Unreal, plenty of game rendering articles, and much more!
Special week for the less famous Game Engines!
The most interesting link is the 001 Game Creator Community Showcase (finally a showcase from an Engine other than Unreal/Godot/Unity!). It's humble, but the "Bellows Below" is a good example of a game that shows the capabilities of a Game Engine. There are some interesting bits there, so it's worth checking out.
Castle Engine shaders received a great support in form of new documentation and examples on how to use with the Engine. It's a good documentation to skim so you can have a quick look at what you can do on Castle Engine.
Not a blog post but a git update that got me excited: Armory3D released version 2025.6. Armory3D is a Game Engine that is on my radar for quite a well because it's built on top of Blender3D (as a plugin you installed on Blender), so you get a 3D modeling software AND a Game Engine in the same ecosystem.
Last but not least (and not part of the underdog theme of this week), Unreal Engine template variants got released. Those are, well, variants of the existing Unreal Engine templates, with more complex game genre examples built with newer tech. There is a lot of good stuff there that also showcase what Unreal Engine 5.6 is capable of, so it's worth checking it out.