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TypeScript 7 has just been released and it claims to have a 8-12X improvement in performance. How did they accomplish this kind of jump in performance? By ironically enough moving from TypeScript to Go and creating a native version of the TypeScript compiler, tsc. So what does a 10X improvement
TypeScript 7 Released – 10X Faster Read More
The free and open source JavaScript/TypeScript 2D game development framework Phaser just hit a major milestone – Phaser 4. The release is claimed to be the biggest yet and it includes a completely rewritten WebGL based renderer among several other improvements. Phaser 4 Release Highlights: Key Links Phaser Homepage Phaser
Babylon.js, the open source TypeScript/JavaScript game engine for creating 3D games for the web has just dropped a major release – Babylon 9. This release is jam packed with new features including: Key Links Babylon.js Homepage GitHub Repository Babylon Editor You can learn more about the Babylon.js 9 release in
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The Babylon.js game engine is one of the best options for 3D web-based game development, either BabylonJS or the recently open sourced PlayCanvas game engine. This week the BabylonJS WebGPU/WebGL game engine got a major upgrade to one of its greatest weaknesses… a new level/world editor! The Babylon Editor enables
Babylon.JS Finally Gets an Editor Read More
The popular 3D game engine/framework for the web, Babylon.js just released Babylon 8. This release comes a year after the release of Babylon 7, so this annual release is absolutely jam packed with new features. Highlight features of Babylon.js 8 include: IBL Shadows Image-Based Lighting is a computer graphics lighting
Babylon.js 8 Game Engine Released Read More
PlayCanvas is a popular 2D/3D game engine with a full editing environment for creating WebGL accelerated high performance games. PlayCanvas has a proprietary online 3D editor built on top of an open-source game development framework. We have long followed the progress of the PlayCanvas engine, including this multi-part creating your
PlayCanvas 2.5 Released Read More
The ct.js game engine we first covered back in 2020 then revisited in 2023 has advanced a great deal since then. Catnip is a free and open source 2D game engine available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Since we last looked at Ct.js they have released version 4.0 with several
ct.js Game Engine Gets New Catnip Visual Scripting Language Read More
Babylon JS, a popular open source 3D HTML game engine, just released Babylon.js 6. Among the most exciting new features of BabylonJS is the addition of Havok physics integration, offering performance improvements of up to 20x over the existing ammo physics system. In addition to the performance improvements, there is
Babylon.js 6 Released with Havok Physics Read More
The open source HTML5 game development Phaser just turned 10 and to celebrate they released Phaser 3.60, the biggest release to date. You can learn more about the first decade of Phaser in this Patreon blog post. If you are interested in learning Phaser check out our (somewhat dated) tutorial
Phaser Turns 10 — Release 3.60 Version Read More
CopperCube, on of the easiet to use 3D game engines just released version 6.6. Among other features, CopperCube 6.6 added the always popular Dark Mode for the editor. CopperCube is available for free, runs on Windows (and Linux via Wine) and is capable of targeting Mac, Windows, Android and WebGL
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