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Welcome to This week in Game Engines! This is a recurrent digest on gamedev tech news and articles from the week before.

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The Big 3 stood out this week!

Godot is starting out this week with it's fourth Godot XR Game Jam and with a blog post on the latest XR development updates on Godot Engine. It's been 0 days since I learned that you can actually make a full game in Godot using it's XR Editor version (check the video on the blog post, it's honestly wild). Godot is also approaching its 4.5 launch with the first Release Candidate.

Unity posted their Games made with Unity showcase for August 2025. A great opportunity to check different genres of games and what Unity can offer for different genres.

Unreal posted an interview with the Blooper Team about Cronos: The New Dawn, and how they used the Engine to make the game. As always, what picks my interest the most in those interviews is what features the developers comment about on the game engine. There is some obvious self-marketing involved but the interview is still quite interesting.

Finally, quite a packed week on Engine updates, such as Defold, Castle Engine, Wonderland Engine and PixiJS.

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Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure. My favorite article from last week (maybe because I have a soft spot for Clojure). Great example of a Game Engine built with very custom tech.
How To Write a Crash Reporter. Way of Rhea developers with a great example and informative article on how to make a good Crash Reporter for your Game Engine.
The elegance of movement in Silksong. Silksong just launched last week, so of course I needed to add an article about it. This is a good, light Game Design analysis on the (absolutely amazing) movement mechanics of the game.
Reallusion Character Creator 5. GameFromScratch made a good video about this alternative to MetaHuman, that just launched it's new release.
Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL. Another unhinged way of playing DOOM (I'm NOT adding a SQL database to EnginesDatabase!).

Another week with great Graphics Engineering content, so I separated them here:

imad's website. I cheated a little bit and just added the whole site, because it has a lot of incredible content to read and with great interactive toys. The ones I read last week included Rotations with quaternions, Physically based rendering from first principles, and Raymarching explained interactively.
Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG. This post uses web tech, but the concepts are really easy to understand and use in Game Engines. Also, I love posts with interactive toys.
Ray Tracing in One Weekend. I couldn't find the time in my last weekend to actually test the veracity of this tutorial (*cough Silksong cough*), but skimming it through, it looks like a great tutorial to get a Ray Trace working from the ground up.
Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games. Most major Game Engines already do some kind of conversion, but this is a great article explaining the problems of using PNG's directly in a Game Engine.
Ten Years of D3D12. I'll be completely honest and say that I understood only a fraction of this article. This is content for the real Graphical Engineers out there, but I really appreciate the effort in describing so many features of D3D12.

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